Tamás Dunai Jászai Mari Prize-winning dramatist, worthy and excellent artist, died on Wednesday at the age of seventy-three. Tamás Dunai died tragically suddenly at home, the family announced on Thursday.
His career
Tamás Dunai was born on July 7, 1949 in Mohács. In 1973, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts of the József Attila University in Szeged, majoring in Hungarian and French, and in 1976 he graduated from the Academy of Theater and Film Arts.
After graduating from college, he became a member of the Madách Theater, played there until 1992, then worked as a freelancer, and in recent years he was seen by the audience as a permanent performer at the Katona József National Theater in Kecskemét.
Over the course of almost 50 years of his career, he has played more than a hundred memorable theater roles and dozens of film and television roles. He was a regular contributor to Madách's musical plays, Macskák, Doctor Herz and Mária's Gospel, he is remembered for numerous recordings of poems and chants, and he also played in a few films (Teketória, Angi Vera, Dóra szála, Zállatkerti mesék, Gyanú, Made in Hungária). .
He had many recordings of poems and chants on television, and appeared in the TV game The Unfortunate Flute. On the radio, he played the role of Hans Castorp in Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain. He performed his solo evenings under the title Olvasólámá music, Szikrákál icecube.
He often performed as a guest of the Budapest Dixieland Band and the Budapest Klezmer Band, both in Hungary and abroad. He was a member of the Actors Orchestra, playing clarinet and saxophone.
Since 1996, he has been invited three times by the BBC World Service to deal with the speech culture of the permanent employees of the Hungarian broadcast, and from September 2006 he was the head teacher of the Madách Musical Workshop.
In 2004, he also made his debut as a director with the musical evening entitled Ez nem bmdAz.
In 1985 he received the Jászai Mari Award and in 1989 the Zoltán Greguss Award. In 1997, he was awarded a meritorious artist. In 1998, he was awarded the Emerton Award, Musical Singer of the Year. In 2000, his art was awarded the Mensáros prize. In 2015, he was awarded the Outstanding Artist of Hungary award, and the following year he was elected honorary citizen of his hometown, Mohács. In 2017, she was awarded the Tolnay Klári Award. In 2022, he was elected a permanent member of the Society of Immortals.
Tamás Dunai's funeral will be arranged later, the family announced.
MTI
Photo: Tamás Dunai after accepting the Tolnay Klári Art Award in Mohora in 2017. MTI Photo: Péter Komka
