Ceija Stojka
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.
Awards
- Bruno Kreisky Prize for the Political Book , 1993
- Josef Felder Prize , 2000
- Golden Cross of Merit of the State of Vienna, 2001
- Humanity Medal of the City of Linz, 2004
- Gold Medal of Merit of the Province of Upper Austria , 2005
- Austrian Adult Education TV Award , 2006
- Appointment as professor by the Austrian Federal Minister for Education, Art and Culture, 2009
- In 2014 the square in front of the Altlerchenfeld parish church was named after her Ceija-Stojka-Platz .
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
- Evelyn Steinthaler (Ed.): Women 1938. Persecuted - Resistant - Followers. Milena-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85286-161-6 . Contains conversations with Ceija Stojka, Dagmar Ostermann , Katharina Sasso and Elfriede Gerstl
Web links
- Literature by and about Ceija Stojka in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of the Ceija Stojka International Fund
- Website by Ceija Stojka
- bildungs.tv: contemporary witness Ceija Stojka , video contribution (58 min.)
- Information about the exhibitions in Berlin 2014
- Article about Ceija Stojka in d | ROM | a, July 2005
Individual evidence
- ^ Roma artist Ceija Stojka has died
- ↑ She made the fate of the Roma public
- ↑ Entry in Musiklexikon.ac.at
- ^ BildungsTV: contemporary witness Ceija Stojka. July 25, 2014, accessed November 6, 2018 .
- ^ Sabine Glaubitz: Paris pays tribute to Roma artist Ceija Stojka. In: volksstimme.de. February 28, 2018, accessed March 20, 2019 .
- ^ "The last witnesses" in the Burgtheater. In: volksgruppen.orf.at. October 21, 2013, accessed September 10, 2014 .
- ^ Ceija Stojka International Fund. Retrieved March 20, 2019 .
- ↑ 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]).
- ↑ a b Stojka: Fear of a dead lost ( memento from January 14, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) at ORF.at
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Naming party for the new Ceija-Stojka-Platz. City of Vienna City Administration, accessed on May 22, 2015 .
personal data | |
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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 |