Aleš Jan's book HEAR THE PICTURE, SEE THE SOUND - The history of radio play in Slovenia deals with the history of radio play in the Slovenian cultural space from its beginnings to the present day. It is "a hybrid between history, theorization and testimony about this important medium and genre of Slovenian contemporary verbal and media art," as written by the reviewer dr. Tomaž Toporišič. About the book, M.Sc. Matej Venier, author of the foreword, wrote: "The Slovenian radio game is at a turning point, when it will either disappear like a snake's tail, or it will get new incentives and begin to appeal to the slechernik in its existential dimension to a greater extent. The work of Aleš Jan /…/ is presented to the public at a significant time, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Radio Slovenia, /…/ and perhaps at the last moment, when the modern Slovenian radio game still has a continuous and direct connection with its artistic and developmental achievements throughout its ninety-year history . Jan's book is an indelible monument to the Slovenian radio game and the artistic production of Radio Slovenia, and it will undoubtedly help the creators of the Slovenian radio game to find the right answers to the problems it has found itself in." qwe
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Ales Jan (1943, Ljubljana) graduated in 1968 in theater and radio directing at the AGRFT in Ljubljana. He then got a regular job at Radio Ljubljana, with which he worked continuously since 1950, first as a child actor, and later as a director. For more than 20 years, he was the editor of the Editorial Board of the feature program. Simultaneously with his work on the radio, he also worked as a director in the theater. Since 1989, he has been a full-time professor of radio direction and radio play at AGRFT. His oeuvre includes more than 600 radio plays and more than 50 theater directions. For his artistic work in the field of radio and theater, he received more than 30 awards at home and abroad, including the Prešeren Foundation Award and the Župančič Award, and in 2016 he received an award from the capital city of Ljubljana for his work in the artistic, organizational, international, pedagogical and scientific field.
Editorial concept: Ana Perne
Editor: Anja Rosker
Selection of photographic material: Aleš Jan, Anja Rošker
Author of the afterword: Matej Venier
Reviewer: Blaž Lukan, Tomaž Toporišič
Help in preparing the material: Ksenija Kaučič
Preparation of photographic material for printing: Andrej Ovsec
Name index: Aleš Jan, Ksenija Kaučič, Anja Rošker
Lecturer: Andraž Polončič Ruparčič
Summary translation: Jana Renee Wilcoxen
Design and preparation for printing: Nina Sturm
Cover design: Nina Sturm
The book was published in cooperation with Radio Slovenija on the 90th anniversary of its operation and is published with the financial support of the Public Book Agency of the Republic of Slovenia and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia.
We would like to thank Radio Slovenia, Radio Koper Capodistria, Radio Študent and the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television of the University of Ljubljana for their cooperation in collecting documentary and archival material.
