László Rajk Jr.

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László Rajk Jr.

László Rajk Jr. (26 January 1949, Budapest – 11 September 2019[1]) was a Hungarian architect, designer and political activist.

Biography

As an architect, he became the member of the Hungarian

blacklisted, and was not allowed to work under his own name.[citation needed
]

In 1981, with Gábor Demszky (Mayor of Budapest from 1990) he founded the independent, underground AB Publishing House, and ran an illegal bookstore from his apartment called "Samizdat Boutique".[citation needed]

In 1988, he was one of the founders of the Network of Free Initiatives and the liberal party, the

Hungarian Parliament after free elections in 1990. Recently he worked as an architect and a production designer for films and taught film architecture at the Hungarian Film Academy in Budapest.[citation needed
] Married to Judit Rajk (1991-)

Politics

The son of the well known show trial victim, Hungary's foreign minister László Rajk, Rajk Jr. was famous in his own right for political/anti-regime activities.[clarification needed][2]

Awards

He was a Chevalier in the

Ordre National du Merite
, 1999, France.

Works

Lehel Market in Budapest

Buildings

  • 1981 KÉV Siófok factory building
  • 1984 Studio space at Mihály Károlyi institute Vence headquarters (with Gábor Bachman and Bálint Nagy)
  • 1989 Imre Nagy and martyrs of 1956 installation for new cemetery (with Gabor Bachman)
  • 1995 Budapest Studio K Theatre interior work
  • 1996 interior reconstruction of Budapest Corvin cinema
  • 1998 reconstruction of Viennese Collegium Hungaricum (with János Balázs & Írisz Borsos)
  • 1999 Aquincum Museum directorate and restoration centre
  • 1999 reconstruction of Budapest Moulin Rouge
  • 2002 Lehel Csarnok hall
  • 2004 reconstruction and Hungarian exhibition in cell block 18 at Auschwitz-Birkenau museum
  • 2004 reconstruction of Budapest classicist building
  • 2004 restoration workshops and research centre at Aquincum Museum
  • 2006 Veszprém 1956 memorial park and monument
  • 2006 Studio K theatre - new theatre interior
  • 2007 Aquincum museum new building

Film sets

Over 25 years' experience in building filmsets for international and Hungarian films and documentaries including:

References

  1. ^ "Elhunyt Rajk László". Építészfórum (in Hungarian). 12 September 2019. Retrieved 12 September 2019.
  2. ^ THE SONS OF COMMUNISM by Michael T. Kaufman, The New York Times, 8 March 1987.

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