László Rajk(1949-2019)

László Rajk (1949) a practicing architect, production designer, professor of film architecture at the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest. A former dissident, human rights activist. He became the member of the Hungarian avantgarde movement in the seventies. From 1975 he was a member of the Hungarian Democratic Opposition, and in 1981 with Gábor Demszky (Major of Budapest 1990-2010) founded the underground AB Publishing House, and ran an illegal bookstore in his apartment called "Samizdat Boutique". In 1988 Rajk was one of the founders of the liberal party, the Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ), and had been an MP for six years after the first free elections. Between 2004-2010 he was the member of the Executive Board of the Hungarian National Television Public Fund. Rajk's own artistic contribution to 1989 was the architectural installation of the final farewell ceremony of the Martyrs of the 1956 Revolution. Designer of several Hungarian and international movie productions.