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I keep in mind the primary time I noticed him on stage on the Nationwide Theater twelve years in the past: at the moment Csongor and Tünde As a pacesetter, he confirmed that the world can’t be black and white, even once we positively wish to see it that manner. Once we checked out him, we knew: in reality, every little thing is made up of small vibrations into one large complete. And he not solely lived it, but additionally expressed all of it. She was an actress who, watching us, made us assume: you positively should study this craft, however there is no such thing as a doubt that you must be born for it. Did I actually describe the way it was? Was it Katya Tompos? Since this morning, nobody who hears it believes it. Everybody’s Katya caught the dawn magic hat that hides the worldand took life with him. Written by Anna Széles-Horváth.

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Not solely do I dare to explain her as “everybody’s Katya”, as a result of weeks in the past, when information of her sickness unfold extensively, this small nation, whose Fb information feed (additionally) splits a number of occasions a day, got here collectively as one particular person to guarantee her of her love, and assist the therapy of a potential foreigner. But additionally as a result of Kátya was a kind of standard artists whom virtually everybody someway regarded as somebody they knew. Like somebody who belongs utterly with us.

Anybody who comes throughout at any time can sit down on a bench subsequent to us and we are able to talk about life with them. As somebody who had an excellent expertise, however by no means abused it or made it seem to be it wasn’t a very pure a part of the way in which issues have been going.

And he earned our belief not solely along with his performances, however most likely additionally along with his genuine human angle, with which he allow us to in to the best depths throughout his work: whereas he stored his on a regular basis life to himself. We did not really feel prefer it was a burden, and it most likely wasn’t.

He performed for the sport. He performed music for music. He sang for the track.

In response to information studies, he had been battling the illness for 2 years, however he did not need it to come back out. A lot of his colleagues and associates discovered about his situation when his viewers. After a lot persuasion, he agreed to arrange a set for the therapy obtainable overseas. On this manner, in his final weeks, maybe he too may expertise the tangible love that swept away all different present affairs in social media like a flood on a day in Might that began as an atypical Thursday, and confirmed him: how a lot it means to individuals when somebody provides hope with sincerity, love, professionalism and modesty , despair, questions and determination on stage or display screen.

I do not know what number of occasions my YouTube movies have performed in recent times – accompanied by a number of others – the track by Tamás Cseh Dostoyevsky and the Satan carried out by Kátya. I could not get bored with the way in which he sensitively, humorously, grotesquely and emotionally tells the story of one of many biggest Russian writers, whereas he unmistakably interprets one of many everlasting truths of artwork: “…for a author, expertise, struggling is a treasured treasure”.

I want you did not have to expertise such struggling, Katya! Once we watched or listened to you – be it a task or your personal concert events – we all the time noticed every little thing: it wasn’t simply this or simply that. Drama, euphoria, pleasure, doubt, freedom, captivity, worry and reassurance.

If we have been taking a look at Katya, we have been taking a look at life. However then the place will life go now?

So Kátya was certainly one of us, however on the similar time she was so particular: that is why we someway solely liked her much more. Even saying his identify was good. Ultimately, Katalin simply became Katya (as her grandmother referred to as her): which nobody may ever query, as a result of her complete essence was contained on this brief phrase. Angle, sensitivity, individuality, playfulness. He spoke proudly about his Russian-Hungarian id, and maybe it was exactly this thrilling, multifaceted origin, which contained historic storms, points of interest and contradictions, that offered the idea for the impact with which we may learn every little thing and the other of every little thing from him on stage.

He gained nationwide fame with an viewers movie: a One thing America 2. he sang in his frames Lonely boat and now it has grow to be a cult track. I could not even depend what number of occasions my roommates and I listened to the lyrics in the midst of emotional storms, staring on the ceiling, or simply screaming in our dorm room.

“He’ll climate a thousand storms” we shouted alongside together with her, who was capable of convey a lot subtlety, humor and fragility even to the function of the gangster’s daughter that it was unimaginable to not establish together with her character.

Kátya Tompos was on the similar time a Russian diva from the previous, a playful court docket jester who wished to entertain, Eliza Doolittle who grew to become a sublime lady, but additionally a easy, naive, uneducated flower vendor who spoke within the voice of all of us.

We believed her when she checked out us as a woman in love compelled behind a witch’s masks, and in addition when she offered herself as certainly one of Chekhov’s heroes who remains to be in search of her personal manner. We thought of it – each time we may hear an analogous track from him – perhaps some poems have been put down on paper as soon as in order that later they might come to life once more along with his voice.

A Csongor and Tündethrough which I noticed it on stage for the primary time, the characters strolling between heaven and earth didn’t all the time know the place they need to stand. In my eyes, Kátya someway wandered between worlds like that, however in no way misplaced: identical to somebody who has entry to in every single place.

He did not maintain it a secret that he may see, however we could not: he stored telling us about it in his songs, his evenings and his roles.

However now, identical to then, 12 years in the past in that play: he picked up the wandering teddy bear and, after wandering, sings a track and heads in the direction of the sky.

God bless you, Katya!

We nonetheless don’t have any phrases.

Simply the information: we might be joyful not solely that you just have been amongst us, but additionally that you just left us right here after you.

Featured picture: Kátya Tompos’ official Fb web page

Anna Széles-Horváth