Alma Karlin
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Alma Karlin | |
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Born | October 12, 1889 Celje, Slovenia |
Died | January 14, 1950 Pečovnik, Slovenia |
Resting place | Svetina, Svetina, Obcina Store, Savinjska, Slovenia |
Alma Maximiliana Karlin (October 12, 1889 – January 14, 1950) was a Slovenian
Biography
She was born in the
After completing her secondary education in Graz, she traveled to London, where she studied languages. She learned English, French, Latin, Italian, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Russian, and Spanish. In the later years, she also studied Persian, Chinese, and Japanese.[4] She also spent six months in Paris, where she attended various languages courses at the Sorbonne.[citation needed] and learned Esperanto.[5]
It was at this time when she started work on her (unpublished) dictionary of ten languages, including Slovene.
At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, Karlin had to move to Sweden and Norway, since she was considered a persona non grata in the United Kingdom for being an Austrian-Hungarian citizen. It was in Scandinavia that she met the Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf, who was so impressed by Karlin and her writing that she proposed her for a Nobel Prize.[6]
In 1919, she returned home, to Celje, then already part of the
In January 1928, at the request of her dying mother, Alma Karlin returned home, herself exhausted by physical illness and deep
Karlin had chronicled her journey in hundreds of reports published in various magazines and newspapers, including the gazette of the Germans in Celje, the Cillier Zeitung, and the German newspapers Neue Illustrierte Zeitung and Der Deutschen Bergknappe. After her return home, she wrote numerous works of fiction and non-fiction. She wrote in German until the rise of the Nazi German regime, when she abandoned German as an act of protest. In Germany, her books were burned by the regime. She also wrote in English for the English-speaking areas.[4] In 1937–38, the Franco-German journalist and anti-Nazi writer Hans Joachim Bonsack found refuge in her home.
Soon after the
Almost inevitably, Karlin also became a collector and ethnologist. Most of the objects she acquired on her journeys she sent home, where she later set up a small private museum. Some of the exhibits are now housed in the Celje Regional Museum. Many of her writings have not yet been published; most of them are kept in the National and University Library of Slovenia and in the Berlin State Library.[citation needed]
Publications by Karlin
English translations are approximate. Some titles were published in German first, then translated into Slovenian.
Novels
- Malik (roman), 1932 [Malik]
- Samotno potovanje, 1969 [Solitary Travel]
- Roman o potopu celine, 1936 [A Novel on the Flood of the Continent]
- Moj mali Kitajec: roman iz Kitajske, 1921 [My Little Chinese: a novel from China]
- Mistika Južnega morja, I. del Polinezija, II. del Melanezija-Mikronezija, 1931 [Mysticism of the South Sea. part i: Polynesia. part ii: part of Melanesia-Micronesia]
- Nabobova stranska žena, 1937 [Nabob's side wife]
Novellas
- Mala Siamka, 1937 [Little Siam]
- Najmlajši vnuk častitljivega I Čaa: novela iz Kitajske, 1948 [The youngest grandson of the venerable I Cha: a novel from China]
- O Joni San: Japonske novele, 2006 [Joni San - Japanese Novels]
Short stories
- Kupa pozabljenja: dve zgodbi, 1938 [Cup of Forgetting: Two Stories]
- Zmaji in duhovi, 1996 [Dragons and spirits]
- Mala pomlad: tri zgodbe, 1937 [Little Spring: Three Stories]
- Mesečeve solze: zgodba iz Peruja, 1935 [Moon Tears: The Story of Peru]
- Štiri dekleta v vetru usode: Zgodba z Južnega morja, 1936,1939, 1943 [Four Girls in the Wind of Destiny: The Story of the South Sea]
- Svetlikanje v mraku, 1999 [Twinkling at dusk]
Travelogues
- Doživeti svet, 2006 [To experience the world]
Travel]
Drama works
- Kringhausenčani: drama v treh dejanjih, 1918 [Kringhausen: Drama in Three Acts]
Other works
- Kot ujetnica pri lovcih na glavo na Novi Gvineji, 1960 [As a Captive in the Headhunters of New Guinea]
- Modri mesec, 1997 [Blue Moon]
- Smrtonosni trn, 2006 [Death Thorn]
- Angel na zemlji, 1998 [Angel on Earth]
- Doživeti svet, 2006 [Experiencing the World]
- Urok Južnega morja: tragedija neke žene (Im Banne der Sudsee) 1930 , prevod Celje, Mohorjeva družba, 1996 (COBISS) [The Spell of the South Sea: The Tragedy of a Woman]
- Into-Yo-Intec, 1934 [Into-Yo-Intec]
- Popotne skice, 1997 [Travel Sketches]
- Pod košatim očesom, 1938 [Under the Bony Eye]
- Moji zgubljeni topoli, 2007 [My Lost Poplars]
- Smrtonosni trn in druge nenavadne zgodbe iz Peruja in Paname (Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga, 2011)
References
- ^ "Pogreb". Slovenski gospodar. No. 7. February 17, 1898. p. 6. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
- ^ "Domače vesti: Umrla je ..." Nova doba. No. 109. September 26, 1928. p. 2. Retrieved January 3, 2023.
- ^ Geburts- und Taufbuch. Celje – Sv. Danijel. 1885–1894. p. 209. Retrieved July 7, 2021.
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: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ a b c "Alma M. Karlin: "Nenavadna ženska" kot Kolumbova hči" [Alma M. Karlin: "An Unusual Woman" as the Daughter of Columbus] (in Slovenian). MMC RTV Slovenia. January 12, 2011.
- ^ (eo) Mojiceja Bonte, Alma – La mondo antaŭ la hejma sojlo, eld. Centra Biblioteko de Celje kaj Esperanto-Societo Ljubljana, 2021, ISBN 9789616557108
- ^ Krapež, Klara (April 2005). "Exhibition on Alma Karlin in the National and University Library in Ljubljana" (PDF). Sinfo. p. 27. Archived from the original (PDF) on March 8, 2012. Retrieved January 13, 2010.
- ^ "Biografija Alma Karlin". www.teozofija.info. Archived from the original on 2022-01-05. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ "Homage to extraordinary cosmopolitan Alma Karlin in the form of a strip cartoon". RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ "Permanent Exhibition: Alma Maksimilijana Karlin".
- ^ Godeša, Petra. "The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman 100 Years Later, Part 1". www.versopolis.com. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ "Alma Karlin Memorial House". Culture.si. Retrieved 2020-10-13.
Further reading
- Neva Šlibar: Traveling, Living, Writing From and At the Margins. Alma Maximiliana Karlin and her Geobiographical Books", in: The Politics of Piety, 2004
- Barbara Trnovec. Unlimited travel by Alma M. Karlin: life, work, legacy (Neskončno potovanje Alme M. Karlin: življenje, delo, zapuščina). 2020.[1]
- Jerneja Jezernik. Alma Karlin: A citizen of the world (Alma Karlin: Državljanka sveta). Mladinska knjiga. Ljubljana. 2009.[2]
- Dekleva, Milan. Die Weltbürgerin : Roman über Alma M. Karlin. Klagenfurt. 2017.
- Jesenšek, Vida, Ehrhardt, Horst, Kaloh Vid, Natalia. Sprache und Stil im Werk von Alma M. Karlin = Jezik in slog v delih Alme M. Karlin = Language and style in the work of Alma M. Karlin. University of Maribor. Maribor. 2019.
- Klemenčič, Jakob, Pušavec, Marijan. Alma M. Karlin : svetovljanka iz province : življenjepis v stripu. Forum. Ljubljana. 2015.
External links
- ^ "Almi M. Karlin za 131. rojstni dan: monografija o neskončnem potovanju". RTVSLO.si (in Slovenian). Retrieved 2020-10-13.
- ^ "Jerneja Jezernik: Knjiga o Almi Karlin". YouTube.