We kindly invite you to join us for a book launch discussion on Thursday, March 16th, at 7 p.m.
I WORKED FOR 40 YEARS. DRAMATISATIONS AND ADAPTATIONS OF CANKAR'S JERNE'S SERVANT.
They will be about the book, in addition to the author dr. Aldo Milohnić, also spoke Žiga Divjak, dr. Lev Kreft and dr. Mateja Pezdirc Bartol, and the conversation will be moderated by the edition's editor dr. Zala Dobovšek.
The book was published in the collection Documents of the Slovenian Theatre Institute, in collaboration with the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana. It was created based on the author's fundamental research into the transpositions of Cankar's Tale to date. The servant Jernej and his right from literary works of art to other forms of artistic production, especially dramatizations and their performances in the theater. In addition to adaptations for dramatic and musical theater, which have been the most numerous so far, the book also provides an overview of adaptations for radio, film, television and comics. The author particularly emphasized the first (known) comprehensive dramatization by Milan Skrbinšek, which was created a hundred years ago, and the most penetrating and most frequently performed adaptation by Ferd Delak, which first appeared ninety years ago. The book brings some new findings about adaptations and performances that have been poorly researched or even completely unknown until now, and in addition, for the first time, it collects data on all dramatizations, adaptations and performances in one place Jerne's servant, which the author has managed to record and process so far.
The publication of the book was funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Public Research Agency of the Republic of Slovenia (within the framework of the Theatre and Interarts Research research program P6-0376).
Before the presentation, at 18.30 You are invited to the last guided tour of the exhibition. I worked for 40 years. From our collections: Servant Jernej – from Cankar to Skrbinšek and Delak. The exhibition will be guided by its authors Dr. Aldo Milohnić and Tea Rogelj, MA.
Video of the book presentation
