Balász, Béla
Balász, Béla (pseudonym of Herbert Bauer, 1884–1949),Hungarian writer, film director, and journalist, whose interest in fairy tales developed during his student years in Budapest. He was particularly drawn to oriental and Hungarian folk tales, and in 1919, soon after he had to flee Hungary because of his involvement with the Communist Party and its short‐lived control of the government, he published his first collection of political fairy tales entitled Sieben Märchen (Seven Fairy Tales). During the 1920s he continued adapting traditional folk tales and writing original socialist fairy tales for children that mirrored the political problems and the dangers of fascism in Central Europe. Most of these works appeared in German: Der Mantel der Träume (The Cloak of Dreams, 1922) and Das richtige Himmelblau (The Right Kind of Blue Skies, 1925). By far his most significant work for children was the play Hans Urian...
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