Endre Farkas Wellmann

He graduated from the Tamási Áron High School in Odorheiu Secuiesc in 1993, where he was the editor-in-chief of the student newspaper Ébredés between 1990-1993, and founded the Alterego literary circle and journal between 1996-1998. In June 1998, he graduated from the Ady Endre Press College in Oradea with a degree in journalism, and in 2007 he obtained a teaching diploma in Hungarian and Cultural Studies at the Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca. She completed her Master’s degree in Sociology at the Faculty of Sociology, University of Cluj-Napoca, in 2008, majoring in Complex Cultural Studies. He was interested in the work of Géza Szőcs from childhood, and wrote his thesis on his poems, and his master’s thesis on his public-political career, which served as the basis for the publication of their joint volume When the Regiment Turns, a documentary record of a writer’s and politician’s career in the 1990s, entitled When the Regiment Turns, in 2009.

Since 1990 he has been a contributor to several Hungarian-language press organs. Látó, Helikon, Helikon – Serény Múmia, Vorőretolt Helyőrség, Az irodalom visszavág, Alteregó, Ébredés, Fiatal Fórum (Zabhegyező), Hargita Népe, Erdélyi Napló, Bihari Napló, Népújság, Gyergyói Kisújság, Székelyföld, Szabadság, 2000, Alibi, Parnasszus, A Dunánál, Irodalmi Jelen etc. In 1997 he worked as an editor at Príma Radio in Odorheiu Secuiesc, in 1998 at the weekly newspaper Erdélyi Napló in Oradea, and in 2000 at Kriterion Publishing House. Between 2002 and 2004 he was a staff member of the cultural-literary journal A Dunánál, and later deputy editor-in-chief in Budapest. In 2009 she became a teacher of Hungarian Literature in Gheorgheni, where she launched and created the Faludyfest Literary Festival, which after two successful years was transformed into the Outgoing Student Arts Festival, where students could not only work in art workshops but also meet contemporary writers and poets. From 2015 to 2020, she was the communications officer of the Hungarian PEN Club in Budapest and editor-in-chief of the organisation’s book publishing house. Since 2021, she has been the vice-president of the Hungarian PEN Club, a staff member of the Hungarian Culture magazine, and from 2023 the editor-in-chief of the Helyőrség family of magazines in the Carpathian Basin. In May 2022, he received his PhD from the University of Szeged, his dissertation is entitled. He lived in Oradea and Cluj-Napoca, and later in Budapest, where he became a friend and student of György Faludy. He currently lives in Budapest and Eted, Szeklerland.

Her parents are doctors. His sister, Éva Farkas Wellmann and his maternal uncle, József Éltető (Wellmann) are also poets and teachers. His wife Éva Bonczidai is a dramaturg, editor and journalist.