Dušan Moravec is a central figure in Slovenian theatrology of the second half of the 20th century. Collection Views on the work of Dušan Moravec presents the work and personality of an outstanding erudite and author who (ever since reporting on partisan theater performances in the Slovenian Reporter) has significantly shaped the state of mind of Slovenian Italy.
The contributions deal with various segments of Moravč's work: from the Ljubljana City Theatre Library, which he founded when he worked as a dramaturge at the theatre and was also its co-founder (together with Jože Tiran), to his leadership of the Slovenian Theatre Museum (1962-1975), when the collection Dokumenti SGM, the first Slovenian journal for theatre research, began to be published. Moravč's work in the field of publishing initiatives was pioneering. Moravč's personal bibliography is also long, from The bourgeois in Slovenian drama, 1960, via Slovenian Theatre of the Cankar Era, 1974, and Foundations of Slovenian Theatrology, 1990, to the last one from 2002, which he dedicated to the actor and director Hinko Nučič. He also devoted himself to editing individual volumes Collected works of Slovenian poets and writers (Ivan Cankar, Lojz Kraigher, Anton Leskovic, Ludvik Mrzel). The authors of the contributions in the collection shed light on the broader significance of the work of academician Moravec, which constitutes the foundation for research into Slovenian theatre in the second half of the twentieth century.
Moravč's work in perspective consistently anticipates the creation of a museum with a research and representative note of a national theatre institute, which the Slovenian Theatre Museum has been striving towards for the last decade.
Edited by: Vasja Predan and Ivo Svetina
Design: Barbara Bogataj Kokalj
Authors of the contributions: Francka Slivnik, Vasja Predan, Mojca Kreft, Ivo Svetina, Štefan Vevar, Petra Pogorevc, Denis Poniž, Bogomila Kravos, Goran Schmidt, Mirko Mahnič