High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Béla Balázs (4 August 1884, Szeged 17 May 1949, Budapest), born Herbert Bauer, was a Hungarian-Jewish film critic, aesthete, writer and poet. He was the son of German-born parents, adopting his nom de plume in newspaper articles written before his 1902 move to Budapest, where he studied Hungarian and German at the Eötvös Collegium. He is perhaps best remembered as the librettist of Bluebeard's Castle which he originally wrote for his roommate Zoltán K ...