László F. Földényi

László F. Földényi was born in 1952 Debrecen (Hungary). He is an art historian, literary scholar and essayist and one of the most important intellectuals in Hungary. He is holding the chair of Art Theory at the Academy of Theatre and Film in Budapest. Földényi worked as a dramatic advisor and translated numerous contemporary dramatists. As co-editor he is responsible of the Hungarian Kleist edition. In 2002, he received the Blauer Salon Preis of the Literaturhaus Frankfurt, and in 2005, he was awarded the Friedrich-Gundolf-Prize of the German Academy for Language and Literature. Since 2009 he is Member of the German Academy for Language and Literature.

As of July 2019