- Bojan Štih
Bojan Štih (
18 February 1923 -14 October 1986 ), was a Sloveneliterary critic ,stage director andessayist . He was one of the most influential figures in the modern Slovene theatre after 1945.Štih was born in
Ljubljana , where he attended the prestigiousBežigrad Grammar School . DuringWorld War Two , he collaborated with theLiberation Front of the Slovenian People . In 1942, he was arrested by the Italian Fascist occupation authorities and sent to the concentration camp inGonars . At the end of Augist 1942, he escaped from the camp along with a group of Slovene Communist actvists, among whom was also the famous partisan leaderFranc Ravbar and theBoris Kraigher , the later Prime Minister of theSocialist Republic of Slovenia . Štih joined the Slovene partisan resistance active in theJulian March .After the end of the war in 1945, he worked as a journalist and editor. In 1957, he graduated from
history at theUniversity of Ljubljana . The same year, he started working as a director in theDrama theatre in Ljubljana, where he work together with the playwright and authorJože Javoršek . In the 1960s, he worked in virtually all of the most theatres in Slovenia, where he introduced contemporary western trends. He was also a prolific essayist.He died in Ljubljana in 1986 and is buried in the
Žale cemetery. A street in theBežigrad district of Ljubljana was named after him in less than five years from his death.His was the uncle of
Barbara Brezigar , Slovene jurist and politician and current ChiefPublic Prosecutor of the Republic of Slovenia.Sources
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Jože Pogačnik , "Bojan Štih" in "Slovenska misel: eseji o slovenstvu" (Ljubljana: Cankarjeva založba, 1987), 470-71.
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