Ceija Stojka

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Ceija Stojka (Vienna 2008)

Ceija Stojka ( Margarete Horvath-Stojka ) (born May 23, 1933 in Kraubath an der Mur , Styria ; † January 28, 2013 in Vienna ) was an Austrian writer and artist . It belonged to the Lovara - Roma of living, especially in Central and Eastern Europe, and survived as a child three Nazi concentration camps .

She was the sister of Karl Stojka and Mongo Stojka and aunt of Harri Stojka and Karl Ratzer .

Life

As a child, Ceija Stojka grew up in a family that traveled through Austria as a horse dealer. Her father was not - as she mistakenly believed for many years - murdered in the Dachau concentration camp , but at Hartheim Castle . After her father was deported to Dachau in 1941, the rest of the family was deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. In 1943 she was sent with her mother and sister to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, where Stojka had to work in the sewing room. Shortly before the end of the war, all three came to Bergen-Belsen , where they were liberated in 1945. Of the extended family, which comprised around 200 people, only six survived.

After the war, Stojka settled in Vienna, where she lived until her death.

In 1988 she wrote her first book We Live In Secret and was one of the first to draw attention to the fate of her people in the concentration and extermination camps. 1992 followed with the book Travelers in this World, her memories of the time in post-war Austria. In 1989, after a trip to Japan, she began to paint her first pictures. Recurring themes are colorful nature motifs, especially the Roma before the war, but also very dark depictions of the Nazi atrocities. Exhibitions of her works were most common in Germany and Austria, but also in other countries such as Japan and the Czech Republic . In 2003 she published her collection of poems, My Choice to Write - I Can't .

As part of the project The Last Witnesses at the Burgtheater , Ceija Stojka was one of seven survivors of the Nazi extermination camps, whose testimonies were presented and who also spoke to the audience about their experiences in the context of the persecution of Jews during the Nazi era, but she died before the premiere in October 2013, so that she could no longer attend in person.

Ceija Stojka was buried in Vienna in the Groß-Jedlersdorfer Friedhof in an honorary grave (group 13, row 2, number 10).

Ceija Stojka International Fund

In 2018, the International Fund was founded by a group of international curators, journalists, authors, a filmmaker and a photographer together with the heirs of Ceija Stojka. This non-commercial institution aims to provide the interested public with data on the work and person of Ceija Stojka as well as to provide information about exhibitions, important press coverage and the scientific reception of the work.

Plaque on Ceija-Stojka-Platz in Vienna's new building

Awards

Burial place of Ceija Horvath-Stojka

Works

  • We live in secret. Memories of a Rome Gypsy (1988)
  • Travelers in this World (1992)
  • My choice to write - I can't do poetry (2003)
  • Me Diklem Suno (Audio CD)
  • Do I dream that I am alive? Liberated from Bergen-Belsen (2005)
  • ceija stojka. auschwitz is my coat. pictures and texts. (Monograph, edited by Christa Stippinger, edition exil, Vienna 2008)
  • Ceija Stojka (1933–2013) - Even death is afraid of Auschwitz (monograph, edited by Lith Bahlmann / Matthias Reichelt, Verlag für Moderne Kunst Nürnberg 2014)

Cinematic reception

  • Ceija Stojka: The Portrait of a Romni , 2001 (Director: Karin Berger )
  • Light green grass under the boards , 2005 (Director: Karin Berger)

literature

Web links

Commons : Ceija Stojka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Roma artist Ceija Stojka has died
  2. ↑ She made the fate of the Roma public
  3. ↑ Entry in Musiklexikon.ac.at
  4. ^ BildungsTV: contemporary witness Ceija Stojka. July 25, 2014, accessed November 6, 2018 .
  5. ^ Sabine Glaubitz: Paris pays tribute to Roma artist Ceija Stojka. In: volksstimme.de. February 28, 2018, accessed March 20, 2019 .
  6. ^ "The last witnesses" in the Burgtheater. In: volksgruppen.orf.at. October 21, 2013, accessed September 10, 2014 .
  7. ^ Ceija Stojka International Fund. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
  8. ↑ BERND HEIN: The last naysayer . In: The daily newspaper: taz . 23 August 2000, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 12 ( taz.de [accessed on May 23, 2020]).
  9. ↑ a b Stojka: Fear of a dead lost ( memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at ORF.at
  10. ↑ Professional title Professor for Ceija Stojka  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at ORF.at@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / volksgruppen.orf.at  
  11. ↑ Naming party for the new Ceija-Stojka-Platz. City of Vienna City Administration, accessed on May 22, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Stojka, Ceija
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer, artist and survivor of the Porajmos
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Kraubath an der Mur , Styria, Austria
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 2013
Place of death Vienna