“I’m just such a citizen of all the world, so I speak the seven languages quite actively and every nationalism seems at least ridiculous and embarrassing to me.”
Daniel Dräxler was born in 1973 in Bratislava, into a hungarian-speaking family. At the time of his birth, his parents were relatively older. Both parents were born in Košice, although the paradox is that in different countries, because Košice belonged to Hungary for some time. His mother, as single Huščáková, grew up in a classic burgher family, unlike his father, who came from southern Polipie, from a village surrounding. A very interesting decision of the memorial parents was that despite the fact that they could lead their children to the hungarian language, they basically spoke slovak with them at home. The decision to learn his parents’ language at a better level came at puberty. He came to it by himself, and this was mainly due to the holidays which he spent in Hungary with his aunt and cousin, who spoke just only hungarian. Daniel attended the Primary School in Bratislava on Košická street and did not consider himself a very good student. When the time came to choose a secondary school, he chose the Secondary Vocational School of Civil Engineering on Dopravná street in Bratislava. After graduating, his profession was to become a mechanic of heavy current equipment. During his adolescence, Daniel also slightly felt the influence of the regime at that time, because his father was a member of the Communist Party for some time, he did not feel too much negative. They were careful about hungarian language, they did not want to draw unnecessary attention to themselves. As a young boy, Daniel always sought insight and did not agree that political parties should be formed on the basis of nationality or religion. As part of the Hungarian national minority in Slovakia, he emotionally perceives the opinions of both parties, maybe more because he sees his family in them. Daniel’s life was not exactly according to the former regulations, and after high school he did not immediately follow studying at university, as did his peers. After an unsuccessful attempt to be accepted to the Faculty of Education in Nitra, he married at the age of twenty and three children gradually came. He worked as a guitar teacher at the Lúky House of Culture in Petržalka. In time, he became a religious enthusiast and tried to study at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of Comenius University, Department of Evangelical Theology. In the third grade, due to a number of duties, he left school. He became a great religious enthusiast, also thanks to his work in the organization Adra Slovensko. He later gave up and left the church sphere. He developed agnosticism. Since 2013, he has worked as a logistics at the “Doctors Without Borders” clinic on a mission in Pakistan. After returning home, he lived for a year in Prague and worked alternately in Jordan or a czech catholic charity, where he again participated in the implementation of projects for the Middle East. Since 2016 he has been working at the English International School in Bratislava as an academic support coordinator. After the break-up of his marriage, he found a partner nineteen years older, with whom he is still to this day. Currently, his hobbies include providing courses in playing the guitar and performing the work of a driver in a taxi service, where he sometimes has the opportunity to practice the hungarian language with customers.