🇺🇸 Mu­sic al­bum „Hungary’s Free­dom, My Free­dom“ (This al­bum is al­so available in Hun­ga­ri­an and German)

The al­bum is de­li­bera­te­ly re­leased in th­ree lan­guages so that the mes­sa­ge of the Hun­ga­ri­an will for free­dom and in­de­pen­dence may be he­ard th­roug­hout the world: as a to­ken of what it tru­ly me­ans to be free and in­de­pen­dent, and that it is ALWAYS worth fight­ing for.

The songs tell of the

• of the „Se­ven Chief­ta­ins“, who ca­me to Eu­ro­pe in the year 895,
• of the foun­der of the re­alm, Szent Ist­ván (1000),
• of Tran­syl­va­nia (1075) and the Székelys,
• of my pre­sent home vil­la­ge of Újud­var (1193),
• of the Ot­to­man oc­cu­pa­ti­on (1526),
• of ar­med upri­sin­gs (e.g. 1699) against for­eign ru­le (or 1790),
• of the Re­vo­lu­ti­on of 1848,
• of the Red Ter­ror of the Le­nin Boys in 1919,
• of the People’s Upri­sing of 1956,
• th­rough to the Ukrai­ni­an peace ef­forts (2024), ho­no­u­red in the „Peace Tri­bu­te to Vik­tor Orbán“.
• Two tim­e­l­ess bo­nus tracks – Hungary’s Christ­mas and New Year’s Gree­tings – bring this deep­ly emo­tio­nal al­bum, one that rai­ses goo­se­bumps time and again, to its close.

Each song tells of cou­ra­ge,
re­sis­tance, the will to be free, and the ho­pe for peace that has never fa­ded. The Hun­ga­ri­an bag­pi­pe (ma­gyar du­da), now al­most for­got­ten, re­ap­pears in ma­ny of my songs: It was on­ce the sym­bol of that free­dom which was a thorn in the si­de of the com­mu­nists, and who­se sound I sor­ely miss in today’s Hun­ga­ri­an mu­sic.
An al­bum that con­veys the histo­ry of Hun­ga­ry in a com­ple­te­ly new way: The­se are not me­re­ly songs; the length and depth of most tracks bear wit­ness to Hun­ga­ri­an histo­ry in its de­tail and wi­th pro­found per­so­nal en­ga­ge­ment.
A work that mo­ves lis­ten­ers not on­ly mu­si­cal­ly, but opens their eyes to histo­ry.
Thus, for on­ce, Hungary’s histo­ry is not dry and di­dac­tic, but co­mes ali­ve, is vi­vid, and can be tru­ly felt.

A spe­cial thank-you goes to
Má­ria from Pécs, who trans­la­ted my ly­rics — which I al­ways wri­te in Ger­man first — in­to per­fect Hun­ga­ri­an, ther­eby ma­king the mu­sic even mo­re au­then­tic.

Why this mu­sic al­bum?
I have be­en li­ving in a freer Hun­ga­ry for ten ye­ars, and never in my life have I be­en as free as I am he­re. I had to en­du­re com­mu­nism for 29 ye­ars in the GDR, so I know what I’m wri­ting and tal­king about!
I have left the com­mu­nists be­hind me, wi­th ever­y­thing that was possible:

• 18 months in pri­son for at­temp­ting to flee the country,
• in­clu­ding 9 months in a STASI pri­son (in­clu­ding pre­tri­al de­tenti­on in Chem­nitz pen­ding de­por­ta­ti­on, fol­lo­wed by a re­turn to the GDR),
• 72 days in so­li­ta­ry confinement,
• 18 days and nights in a dark basement,
• plus time in the STASI pri­son hos­pi­tal due to a hun­ger strike …
• la­ter, a ban on pro­fes­sio­nal employment,
• forced ex­pro­pria­ti­on of my home (which be­ca­me “pu­blic pro­per­ty”), no com­pen­sa­ti­on to this day,
• and much more).

Even back then in the GDR, I had the cou­ra­ge to stand up against evil (wri­ting po­li­ti­cal po­ems in pri­son) and to use my head.

My first CD, „De­si­re against ex­pec­ta­ti­ons: GDR 1984/1“, sings about this.
I wro­te the­se (my) po­ems in 1984 while in a GDR pri­son.
2024: For­ty ye­ars la­ter, I re­dis­co­ver­ed them and set them to mu­sic.
Tracks 1 – 13 are cal­mer ver­si­ons, while the sa­me titles in tracks 14 – 26 are full of mu­si­cal power (Go­thic, hard rock, etc.):

A al­bum 3 nyel­ven érhe­tő el:
🇭🇺 Ma­gyar­or­szág sza­bad­sá­ga, az én sza­bad­sá­gom
🇩🇪 Un­garns Frei­heit, mei­ne Frei­heit
🇺🇸 Hungary’s Free­dom, My Free­dom

P.S.: You can lis­ten to the full songs up to th­ree times for free via the links!

Af­ter the fall of the Ber­lin Wall in 1989, when the GDR was “ab­sor­bed” by the FRG,
I had to keep fight­ing for my free­dom the­re as well. Ever­y­thing was in uphe­aval; not­hing was cer­tain, and not­hing was tru­ly free.
It is on­ly in the last ten ye­ars, he­re in Hun­ga­ry, that I have found what I have be­en sear­ching for my en­ti­re life: free­dom of thought, ac­tion, and choice. Free­dom that me­ans li­ving in peace, en­joy­ing life, and sha­ping it as one wis­hes. Af­ter mo­re than 50 ye­ars of strugg­le, op­pres­si­on, and un­cer­tain­ty, I have found a home in Hun­ga­ry: a coun­try that gi­ves me the op­por­tu­ni­ty to cla­im my free­dom.
That is why this al­bum is not on­ly a tri­bu­te to Hungary’s histo­ry, but al­so a per­so­nal thank you to all Hun­ga­ri­ans. A thank you to a coun­try that has shown me what true free­dom me­ans. Wi­th every song and every no­te, I want to ce­le­bra­te this free­dom — and share it wi­th tho­se who che­rish it as much as I do.
Kös­zönöm, Hun­ga­ry!

My new 2025 al­bum, “Hungary’s Free­dom, My Free­dom,”
is far mo­re than just a mu­si­cal work to me: it is my per­so­nal com­mit­ment to a coun­try whe­re I found the free­dom I had al­ways sought. I did not find it in the GDR, nor did I find it in the FRG. I found it he­re in a freer Hun­ga­ry.
This al­bum is an ex­pres­si­on of my deep con­nec­tion to the Hun­ga­ri­an peo­p­le and their un­bro­ken lon­ging for in­de­pen­dence, faith, di­gni­ty, and peace.
Every no­te car­ri­es gra­ti­tu­de, and every me­lo­dy speaks of cou­ra­ge and ho­pe. Thus, mu­sic he­re be­co­mes a tes­ta­ment to my in­ner and outer free­dom and, ul­ti­m­ate­ly, a li­ving mo­nu­ment to Hungary’s en­du­ring spi­rit of free­dom.
Thank you, Hun­ga­ry!
Thank you, Hun­ga­ry!
Thank you, Hungary!

The al­bum is available in 3 lan­guages:
A al­bum 3 nyel­ven érhe­tő el:
🇭🇺 Ma­gyar­or­szág sza­bad­sá­ga,
az én sza­bad­sá­gom
🇩🇪 Un­garns Frei­heit,
mei­ne Frei­heit
🇺🇸 Hungary’s Free­dom,
My Free­dom

Ro­sa von Zehn­le úr
Ùjud­var, 2026.05.25

https://175er-verlag.org/.recherchiert/archive/8593
https://1956-hirek.org/8593

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