Damir GLOBOČNIK
GOLDENSTEIN’S WORK IN THE FIELD OF THEATRE
The painter Franz Kurz zu Thurn und Goldenstein (1807–1878) worked in Ljubljana between 1834 and 1867. He established himself as a church painter and as a creator of stage scenery for the Estates Theatre, the theatre of Mahr’s Commercial School, and the theatre of the Aloysianum. Goldenstein’s stage designs have not survived. Some are known through sketches preserved in the Joanneum Museum in Graz (Neue Galerie Graz – Universal museum Joanneum). This paper examines Goldenstein’s stage designs and other theatrical works based on news paper reports about individual performances. Goldenstein also designed several so-called “living pictures” (tableaux vivants), the best known being the four tableaux vivants presented at the “Prešeren Evening” on 2 December 1865 at the Estates Theatre in Ljubljana. In 1867 he moved to Graz, where in 1877 he created a theatre curtain for a private theatre in Bela Crkva (Temesvar).
Irena SELIŠNIK, Petra TESTEN KOREN, Ana CERGOL PARADIŽ
“IT IS SAID THAT MRS. [MARIJA PFEIFER], WITH TEARS IN HER EYES, ASKED JAKLIČ TO HELP HER BEG FOR VOTES FOR HER VILJEM.”
How Men and Women Crossed the Boundaries of Gender Roles in the Long Nineteenth Century
An analysis of the relationship between the private and public spheres in the nineteenth century shows that the dichotomy between them was far more fluid than contemporary ideologues and thinkers portrayed it. Although official discourse assigned women the role of guardians of the home and family, empirical examples from the Slovenian middle-class environment reveal that women were active participants in economic, social, and even political life. Their activities—from involvement in family businesses to the use of social events for political mediation—demonstrate that the private sphere was always intertwined with the public one and that women developed their own forms of influence and autonomy within these frameworks. Middle-class society thus revealed an internal contradiction between the ideological ideal of the “angel in the house” and the actual practices that enabled women, despite its limitations, to play an active role in shaping the system.
Tinkara STARČEK
“BE QUIET, YOU DAMNED DEVIL, OR I WILL KILL YOU AND STRIKE YOU AT ONCE…”
Sexual Offenders in the Records of Maribor Men’s Prison, 1889–1919
This article examines sexual violence at the turn of the twentieth century through an analysis of the files of sexual offenders who served sentences in the Maribor Men’s Prison between 1889 and 1919. It discusses the influence of bourgeois morality and criminal legislation on the treatment of sexual violence, while marital rape remained legally and socially neglected. Most inmates were convicted of child sexual abuse, which accounted for as much as 80% of the cases, and sentences were often reduced due to mitigating circumstances such as youth or intoxication. Adult women were generally victims of random attacks and uncontrolled male sexual desire. The analysis reveals the relationship between social class, the legal framework, and the prevalence of sexual violence at the turn of the century.
Štefan HADALIN
“WE STOLE ALL THE FOOD…”
Echoes of Shortages During the First World War in the Criminal Records of the Koper District Court
The records of the Koper District Court provide certain insights into the everyday life of the civilian population in the region it covered between 1914 and 1918. Although much of the surviving material is incomplete and does not offer a comprehensive overview of criminal statistics, the preserved files and registers for category Z (reports of crimes and misdemeanours) reveal characteristic features and snapshots of life in north-western Istria during a period of severe shortages of food and other life necessities. The article focuses on identifying patterns in various criminal offences and reports thereof during the First World War, with special attention to theft and its characteristics as reflected in the archival material. It offers an overview and analysis of these records as a source for studying everyday life in the region during the war.
Tonko BARČOT, Vinko DIDOVIĆ, Franc KRIŽNAR
PROFESSOR FROM THE OUTSIDE
The Musical and Educational Activities of Danijel Danilo Grum on Korčula and Pelješac in the 1930s
In 2016, an exhibition was mounted at the Korčula Lastovo Archival Collection Centre (Žrnovo, Croatia), presenting social developments in Žrnovo on the island of Korčula up to the mid-twentieth century. One part of the exhibition highlighted the engagement of a Slovenian music educator in the 1930s. Subsequent analysis of sources and literature revealed that this person was Danijel Danilo Grum, son of the organist and composer Anton Grum. The article traces the identification of this previously unknown music educator, provides basic biographical information, and describes his work on Pelješac and Korčula on the eve of the Second World War. The concluding section considers the significance and legacy of Grum’s contribution.
Mateja RATEJ
DUŠAN ŠPINDLER – KOVAČ (1912–2003)
Teacher and Central Organizer of the Resistance Movement in Maribor
Through a biographical study of Dušan Špindler (1912-2003), the author examines the resistance movement in Maribor, whose main organizer from autumn 1943 to spring 1944 was this schoolteacher. A committed communist, Špindler taught at several elementary schools during the 1930s. After the Nazi occupation and his return from the Mauthausen concentration camp, he was tasked by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Slovenia for northeastern Slovenia with building the backbone of the Maribor resistance movement, with the assistance of fellow teachers. During the Informbiro trials of 1949–1950, he was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment with forced labour on charges of collaboration with the Gestapo. However, his conviction was most closely connected to the tragic events on Pohorje in January 1944, when a group of new recruits from the Slovenske Gorice region were tortured and executed within a partisan unit on suspicion of sympathizing with the Blue Guard movement.