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Fodor graduated from the Eötvös Loránd University's (ELTE) Hungarian Language and Philosophy departments in 1967. He received his PhD in 1975 and his DSc in 2004 from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Between 1967 and 1973, Fodor worked in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences' Philosophy Institute. Afterward, he taught at ELTE University's Department of Aesthetics. He became an associate professor in 1990. He was a dramaturg at the National Theatre between 1978 and 1982, and chief dramaturg and artistic advisor at the Hungarian State Opera House between 1987 and 1989. He taught theatre history, drama and opera analysis at the Theatre and Film Academy between 1992 and 1997.
Fodor wrote as an opera critic at Muzsika from 1982. In 1989, he helped launch the magazine Holmi and served as an editor at the publication until his death. Fodor published pieces on stage theory for Színház, Hungary's biggest theatre magazine, for five years.
As a dramaturg, Fodor helped stage many well known contemporary Hungarian plays (Chickenhead, Month of Executioners, Anybody, Bump) as well as classics (Tartuffe, Saint George and the Dragon, Ivanov, Medea, Macbeth and Wild Duck).
Fodor was a founding member of Budapest's renowned Katona József Theatre.
Fodor was a recipient of the Mihály Táncsics Award, the Imre Madách Award and the Széchenyi Award. In 1990, he received the Tibor Déry Award and in 1987 and 1990 he received the prize for Best Dramaturg at the National Theatre Festival.
He wrote several books on music and literary history, most recently The World View of Mozart Operas (Magvető, 2002), Das hoffnungslose Meisterwerk (Cuxhaven-Dartford, 1999), Music and Theatre (Budapest, 1998); and The Poetry of György Petri (Budapest, 1991).
As a show of respect, the Katona József Theatre will not have a premiere for Barabarians, a production for which Fodor was the dramaturg.
Source: Fidelio.hu
