Fran Albreht

Fran Albreht ( born November 17, 1889 in Kamnik, † February 11, 1963 ) was a Slovenian poet. He has also published under the pseudonym Rusmir.

Life

Albreht was born as Francesco Albrecht. He grew up in a liberal milieu came later but more to the left views. He studied at the University of Vienna and became a neo- romantic poet.

In the late 1920s and early 1930s Albreht was editor of the prestigious literary magazine Ljubljanski ZVON. After the crisis of the magazine in 1932, which stemmed from different interpretations of the Slovenian identity and attitudes towards the centralist policies in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Albreht left the magazine and co-founded the literary critic Josip Vidmar and the author Ferdo Kozak, a new magazine called Sodobnost ( "Modern ").

After the invasion of Yugoslavia in April 1941 Albreht was an active member of the Liberation Front of the Slovenian people in Ljubljana. He was arrested by Italian Fascist authorities after a series of actions. 1944, the German authorities sent him to Dachau.

In 1945, after the liberation of the Nazi occupation, he was appointed mayor of Ljubljana. He served in this office 1945-1948. 1948 he was released and shortly thereafter arrested for anti-communist activities.

He was married to the poet Vera Albreht. He is buried in the Zale Cemetery.

Works

• Zadnja Pravda ( Judgement ), 1934
• Pesmi ( poems ), 1966
• Gledališke kritiké ( theater reviews ), 1973

• Mayor (Ljubljana)
• Prisoner in Dachau concentration camp
• Person ( Yugoslavian resistance 1941-1945 )
• Politicians (Yugoslavia)
• Literature ( Slovenian)
• Theater critic
• Yugoslav
• Born in 1889
• Died in 1963
• Man