Can Togay

Can Togay Turkish ˈdʒan ˈtoɡaj born August 27 1955 also known as János Can Togay is a Hungarian film director screenwriter actor poet producer cultural manager and cultural diplomat Can Togay was born the son of Turkish parents He spent his childhood in Germany In 1969 he joined the Péter Halász troupe Between 1973 and 1978 he studied on the German and English faculty of Eötvös Loránd University followed by two years of postgraduate work on GermanFrench comparative linguistics under JeanMarie Zemb of the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris He finished in 1980 In 1984 he graduated from the faculty of direction of the Színház és Filmművészeti Főiskola College of Theatrical and Video Arts in Budapest as the student of Zoltán Fábri In 1991 he moved to Finland for four years His 1992 film A nyaraló was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival In 1978 he had poems published in the Mozgó Világ Moving World In 2004 his first collection of poems was released by the publisher Aranykor Kiadó Golden Age Publisher He conceived the idea of the Holocaust Memorial Cipők a Dunaparton Shoes on the Danube Promenade in Budapest and was also a comaker of it with Gyula Pauer Since January 1 2008 he is the head of the Collegium Hungaricum Berlin the Hungarian Institute for Science and Culture in the German capital and the cultural attaché of the Hungarian Embassy