Bato Tomašević

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Nebojša "Bato" Tomašević ( Cyrillic  Небојша Бато Томашевић ; born November 9, 1929 in Kosovska Mitrovica ; † April 15, 2017 in Exeter , England ) was the author of various publications and one of the survivors of British European Airways flight 609 . Among other things, he was a Yugoslav diplomat , editor-in-chief of the magazine Jugoslovenska revija (Yugoslav Revue) and director of the television channel YUTEL .

Life

Tomašević graduated from the University of Belgrade in 1952 and then studied from 1953 to 1955 at the University of Exeter in England .

After returning to Yugoslavia, he became editor-in-chief of the magazine Jugoslovenska revija ( Yugoslav Review ) in Belgrade . In the 1970s he wrote numerous books, mostly about naive art . Together with Oto Bihalji-Merin , he published the Enciklopedija naivne umetnosti sveta in 1984 , which has been translated into several languages, including English and German.

family

Tomašević's older brother Dušan was a partisan in World War II and was killed by Chetniks during fighting in Bosnia . His sister Stana Tomašević was also a partisan, as well as a politician and ambassador.

Works (selection)

  • Naivci o sebi , 1973. German-language edition Yugoslawische Naive. Artists about themselves , Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1974, ISBN 3-7845-8030-0 .
  • Magicni svet Ivana Generalica , 1975 or 1976. German-language edition: Ivan Generalić. My life, my pictures , Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1976, ISBN 3-7845-8200-1 .
  • Pictura Naiva Iugoslava , 1977
  • Naivni slikari Jugoslavije , 1978
  • Tisnikar, svet vaskrslih mrtvaca , 1978. German-language edition: Tisnikar , Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1978, ISBN 3-7845-8400-4 .
  • Jugoslavija, zemlja i ljudi , 1979
  • (with Oto Bihalji-Merin): Enciklopedija naivne umetnosti sveta , 1984. German-language edition: Weltenzyklopädie naive Kunst. One hundred years of naive art , Parkland, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-88059-314-0 .
  • Montenegro. A family saga in the century of conflict. Campus, Frankfurt am Main 2000.

literature

  • Tomasević, Nebjosa-Bato. In: Juliusz Stroynowski (Ed.): Who's who in the socialist countries of Europe. A biographical encyclopedia of more than 12600 leading personalities in Albania - Bulgaria - Czechoslovakia - German Democratic Republic - Hungary - Poland - Romania - Yugoslavia. Volume 3: P - Z. Saur, Munich et al. 1989, ISBN 3-598-10747-1 , p. 1207.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rajko Cerović: In Memoriam: Nebojsa Bato Tomasevic (1929-2017): nikad nije zaboravljao Crnu Goruş. In: portalanalitika.me. April 18, 2017, Retrieved April 30, 2017 (Montenegrin).
    Vittorio Filippi: Addio a Nebojša Bato Tomašević: Una vita, tre Jugoslavie. In: East Journal. April 22, 2017, accessed April 30, 2017 (Italian).
personal data
SURNAME Tomašević, Bato
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tomašević, Nebojša; Томашевић, Небојша (Serbian); Томашевић, Бато (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav diplomat, journalist and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Kosovska Mitrovica
DATE OF DEATH April 15, 2017
Place of death Exeter , England , UK