Fran Albreht
Fran Albreht (17 November 1889 – 11 February 1963) was a
partisan. He also published under the pseudonym
Rusmir.
He was born as Franc Albrecht in the
leftist views. He studied at the University of Vienna and became a literary critic and a neo-romantic
poet.
From the 1922 till the 1932 Albreht was editor of the liberal literary magazine Communists could publish their articles under pseudonyms.
After the
Nazis sent him to Dachau concentration camp.[3]
Soon after the liberation from Nazi occupation and the establishment of the
Communist regime in Yugoslavia in 1945, he was appointed mayor
of Ljubljana. He served in that office between 1945 and 1948. In 1948, he was dismissed and shortly imprisoned under the suspicion of anti-Communist activity.
He was married to the poet Vera Albreht. He died in Ljubljana in 1963 and is buried in the Žale city cemetery.
Works
- Zadnja pravda ("The Last Lawsuit"), 1934
- Pesmi ("Poems"), 1966
- Gledališke kritike ("Theatre Critiques"), 1973
See also
- List of Slovenian language poets
- Slovenian literature
- Culture of Slovenia
- Yugoslav People's Liberation War
References
- ^ Slovene Studies by Society for Slovene Studies - 1997
- ^ a b Stanko Janež (1971). Živan Milisavac (ed.). Jugoslovenski književni leksikon [Yugoslav Literary Lexicon] (in Serbo-Croatian). Novi Sad (SAP Vojvodina, SR Serbia): Matica srpska. p. 14.
- ^ "Albrecht, Fran (1889–1963)". slovenska-biografija.si.
External links
- Media related to Fran Albreht at Wikimedia Commons