„Halljátok szózatom! Belátom igazatok.”

Hajas Tibor fiatalkori versei a Belvárosi galeri perének kontextusában

Absztrakt

„Hear My Word! I Accept Your Truth.”

Tibor Hajas’ Early Poems in the Context of the Trial of Dowtown Gan

The focus of this paper concerns the criminal proceedings against Tibor Hajas and the Downtown Gang [Belvárosi galeri] in 1965. Tibor Hajas – born Tibor Frankl – who was19 years old at the time, was sentenced to prison on charges of incitement. This paper relies on various archival documents relating to the trial. The aim of the study is not to provide a detailed narrative of the trial, but to analyze the characteristics, social and poetic context of the speech that the state authorities detected as fascist rhetoric. Tibor Hajas’ early poems, which were branded by the authorities as antisemitic and incitement, show parallels with the conventions of the Downtown Gang subculture. By imitating and detouring the discourse of fascism, the poems attempted to construct an imaginary position of counter-power that was typical of the later neo-avant-garde art. The antisemitic, fascist discourse that appeared in the communication of the young Hajas and the Downtown Gang can be derived from the Kádár-era’s image of the hooligan, to which this subculture adapted its own self-representation.