Age: 59
male
Géza Röhrig was born on May 11, 1967, in Budapest, Hungary. In the 1980s, he was the frontman of an underground music band called Huckleberry (also known as HuckRebelly), whose concerts were almost always interrupted by the communist authorities. At university he studied Hungarian and Polish, and after a visit to Auschwitz during a study tour in Poland, he decided to become a Hasidic Jew in Brooklyn. He published two collections of poems on the theme of the Shoah, Hamvasztókönyv (literally "Book of Incineration", 1995) and Fogság ("Captivity", 1997). He graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest with a degree in filmmaking. He has lived in the Bronx borough of New York City since 2000 where he has been a kindergarten teacher and has published many collections of poetry.
Géza Röhrig
Sigismund
for Sigismund in Roses Season 6: The French Queen
Suggested by dillpickle
Taking place from 1428-1437, Season 6 focuses on the Regency of England while Henry VI is in his minority. With Henry VI's mother, Catherine of Valois - a French princess - ruling as England Regent with the guidance of France's Queen Dowager Isabeau - who has a reputation for her malicious cunning - unrest against the monarchy grows as more flock to support Yorkist claims to the throne. Richard, Head of Houses York and Mortimer now positioning himself as an English nationalist to gain the loyalty of those unhappy with French rule. In an attempt to appease English nationalists, Catherine appoints Thomas Hoccleve, a famous English writer, and his wife, Bonne, an advisor to Isabeau, as the Duke and Duchess of Anjou. Meanwhile the holder of the French Crown remains disputed between Catherine of Valois' young son, King Henry VI if England, and her older brother, Charles VII of France. Near the end of the season Isabeau passes away and Catherine falls ill. With growing unrest in England, season 6 sets in motion the events that eventually lead to the Wars of the Roses.
