- Fran Albreht
Fran Albreht (
17 November 1889 -11 February 1963 ) was a Slovenepoet and partisan. He also published under thepseudonym Rusmir.He was born as Franc Albrecht in the
Upper Carniola n town ofKamnik in what was then theAustro-Hungarian Empire . He grew up in a liberal milieu, but he later came closer to moreleftist views. He studied at theUniversity of Vienna and became a literary critic and a neo-romantic poet.In the late 1920s and early 1930s, Albreht was editor of the prestigious liberal literary magazine "
Ljubljanski zvon ". After the crisis of the journal in 1932, which emerged from different interpretations of Slovene identity and attitudes towards the centralist policies in theKingdom of Yugoslavia , Albreht left the journal and established, together with the literary criticJosip Vidmar , a new magazine called "Sodobnost " ("Modernity"). Under Albreht and Vidmar, the new magazine became the foremost progressive journal in Slovenia, in which also manyMarxists andCommunists could publish their articles underpseudonym s.After the Axis
invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941, Albreht became an active member of theLiberation Front of the Slovenian People inLjubljana . He was imprisioned by Italian fascist authorities on a number of occasions. In 1944, theNazis sent him toDachau concentration camp .Soon after the liberation from Nazi occupation and the establshment of the
Communist regime in Yugoslavia in 1945, he was appointedmayor of Ljubljana. He served in that office between 1945 and 1948.He was married to the poet
Vera Albreht . He died in Ljubljana in 1963 and is buried in theŽale city cemetery.Work
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Zadnja pravda (Last Judgement), 1934
*Pesmi ,(Poems), 1966
*Gledališke kritike (Theatre Critiques), 1973See also
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List of Slovenian language poets
*Slovenian literature
*Culture of Slovenia
*Yugoslav People's Liberation War
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