I worked for 40 years.
From our collections: Servant Jernej – from Cankar to Skrbinšek and Delak
Story The servant Jernej and his right is the most translated work by Ivan Cankar, which testifies to its universality and international recognition. Servant Jernej It has also encouraged – and continues to encourage – numerous adaptations for theatre, opera, choral music, radio, film, television, and more recently, comics.
The exhibition focuses on the most important dramatizations of this story: the first was written a hundred years ago (1922) by the versatile theatre creator Milan Skrbinšek, the second ninety years ago (1932) by the avant-garde artist Ferdo Delak. Selected materials from the collections of the Slovenian Theatre Institute – Theatre Museum will be on display (typescripts and book editions of dramatizations, stage sketches, projections sketches, stickers, theatre lists, photographs of performances, etc.), which accompanied numerous productions of Skrbinšek's and Delak's adaptations. Jerne's servant.
Aldo Milohnić's book will also be published this year I worked for 40 years: dramatizations and adaptations of Cankar's Hlapec Jernej (Slovenian Theatre Institute and Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana). It will include, in addition to the author's study, a list of domestic and foreign dramatizations, adaptations and productions Jerne's servant as well as photographs from performances and other visual material, reprinted first editions of two key dramatizations – Skrbinšek's and Delak's. The book was designed by Nina Šturm, and the edition was edited by Zala Dobovšek.
We opened the exhibition on 29 November 2022, the day on which the Slovenian Theatre Museum (now the Slovenian Theatre Institute) was founded seventy years ago (1952). At that time, Juš Kozak, director of the Slovenian National Theatre in Ljubljana, wrote: "The foundations for preserving the entire tradition on which modern Slovenian theatres are built and from which they draw their creative power have been laid."
Dr. Bratko Kreft was already at that time, in 1952, in Speeches on the establishment of the Slovenian Theatre Museum envisioned the further development of the institution: "We are modestly starting our theatre museum, but the foundation stone has been laid. I am firmly convinced that a temple will one day grow from this stone, which will be a museum and an institute. Only then will we be able to say that we have done everything necessary for the development of national theatre art, in addition to generous material support, because the place of theatre art in every cultural nation is in one of the most beautiful domes of its spiritual temple. It was like this with the ancient Greeks, so why shouldn't it be the same with us?"
The authors of the exhibition also spoke about the exhibition on the show The stage (Ars program, 3rd program of Radio Slovenia): >>Exhibition at the Slovenian Theatre Institute on dramatizations of The Servant Jernej and His Rights
Authors of the exhibition: Tea Rogelj, M.A. (SLOGI) and Aldo Milohnić, Ph.D. (UL AGRFT)
Graphic design: Nina Sturm
Digitization and technical design: Andrej Ovsec (SLOGI)
Lecturer: Andraž Polončič Ruparčič
Production: Slovenian Theatre Institute (SLOGI)
in collaboration with the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana (UL AGRFT) within the framework of the research program P6-0376, co-financed by the Public Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia from the state budget, November 2022.
We are extending the opening of the exhibition, which will be on display until March 16, 2023The exhibition is from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 4 pm (for groups and guided tours by arrangement). Closed on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays (except February 8th, Prešeren Day, a Slovenian cultural holiday). Free admission, you are welcome!
Public guides after the exhibition I worked for 40 years.:
- Friday, December 2, 2022, at 4 p.m. (led by Dr. Aldo Milohnić and Mag. Tea Rogelj);
- Friday, December 9, 2022, at 11 a.m. (led by Dr. Aldo Milohnić);
- Thursday, December 22, 2022, at 5 p.m. (led by Tea Rogelj, M.A.);
- Tuesday, January 17, 2023, at 5 p.m. (led by Tea Rogelj, M.A.)
- Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 6:30 p.m. – last public leadership (led by Dr. Aldo Milohnić).
In the photo: Ferdo Delak (adapted from the story by Ivan Cankar), The servant Jernej and his right, directed by Ferdo Delak, Delavski oder in Ljubljana, premiered on 23 May 1932. Ikonoteka SLOGI – Theatre Museum.
You are welcome to visit recording of the exhibition, where you can listen to the words from Cankar's story The servant Jernej and his right in an adaptation by Aldo Milohnić, read by a theater actor at the opening of the exhibition Matej Puc(Filming and editing: David Verlič.)
