
FULLAJTÁR ANDREA (BUDAPEST)
Mari Jászai Award-winning actress
Her family background has led her to create a theatre and book publishing business that connects the memory of the Holocaust with the personal responsibility of the second and third generations. Her grandmother, Olga Galló, a Holocaust survivor, kept a diary about her life in the Auschwitz camp until the end of the war, which was only published in a truncated, censored version for decades.
The actress worked with playwright Róbert Solt and director András Borgula on the experiences of Olga Galló and her struggle to publish the manuscript. The monodrama, presented at the Gólem Theatre, later continued its journey under the title Babilon Dossier under the auspices of Orlai Produkció. In addition to survival, the personal story also reveals the silence, censorship and the persistence of anti-Semitism after the war. The production received a special prize at the Contemporary Hungarian Drama Award in 2025, and won the audience award for the best performance at the Szemle Plusz theatre meeting. The performance creates a stage space for the expression of family trauma and the healing of later generations.
With her participation, Olga Galló's complete camp diary was published by Magvető Publishing House in January 2025, on the eightieth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Together, the book and the performance give the full story of a survivor and make the importance of personal memory, historical truth, and dignified speech accessible to a wide audience.
For me, the most important thing in my job is – the candidate wrote
One of the greatest challenges in my career has been to become an interpreter of my grandmother's writings. I have become her voice many years after her death. What was painfully stuck in her life has found its way through me and will reach many people.
