Jagoda Truhelka

Jagoda Truhelka (born February 5, 1864 in Osijek , † December 17, 1957 in Zagreb , Yugoslavia ) was a Croatian educator and writer for children and young people.

Life

The upbringing and example of her father, who was also a teacher, her teacher Magdalena Šrepl and the Osijek priest Stjepan Masper had a great influence on her later life and her writing. When she was 14 years old, she moved to Zagreb to continue her education. She became a teacher at the girls' schools in Osijek and Zagreb and later rector in Banja Luka and Sarajevo .

At the beginning of the 1890s she worked for the magazines “Vijenac” from Zagreb and “ Nada ” from Sarajevo. Most of the time she wrote under the pseudonym "am sandučić" . In the magazine "Nada" she published the psychological novel Plein air , which dealt with emancipatory women. Together with her former teacher Marija Jambrišak , she edited the teachers ' paper "Na domacem ognjištu" ("At the home stove"), which dealt primarily with communication between school and parents and information about progressive educational measures.

She wrote novels and stories in which she described the life of peasant women and petty bourgeois women, the patriarchal Sarajevo and the intimate atmosphere of old Zagreb. Truhelka was the first to work on the intellectual figure of women. Her prose , which is characterized by attention to detail, contains naturalistic and impressionistic features. The most important part of her work is a series of books dedicated to children. In 1957 she died in Zagreb at the age of 94.

Creative period

Her most important story, Zlatni danci , with which she was included in Croatian literary history, contains elements of an autobiographical character. It is a three-part work. In her didactic-methodical work she particularly described the role of teacher. In 1910 she wrote a work on education " U carstvu duše " which consists of 27 letters and which can be considered the standard work on teacher training.

Educational work

Truhelka put the love of the Croatian language at the center of the lessons. She demanded that one also pay attention to the language in the parental home. The teacher must know the psychological level of the student's development and awaken in him a love of the Croatian language. She was of the opinion that grammar should be excluded in the initial phase while at the same time more attention should be paid to language and literary material.

Personal example as a teacher

Jagoda Truhelka demanded self-observation and self-analysis from the teaching profession, since self-analysis represents the beginning of a changed perception of pedagogical work. She constantly strived for new knowledge, the modernization of pedagogical practice and improved her work through innovations. The role of teacher was so important to her that she made the decision to live alone in order to be able to devote herself fully to it. After Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić , she was the most important writer for children in the first half of the 20th century.

Works (selection)

Her most important works:

• Tugomila (1894),
• Vojača (1899),
• U carstvu duše (1910),
• Zlatni danci (first published in 1919), ISBN 9536124823 , publisher: Znanje, 1995
• Gospine trešnje (1943),
• Crni i bijeli dani (1944) and
• Zlatko (novel) (1934).

Mali Kadija ( Little Kadi ) was set to music by Antun Dobronić in 1954 as a children's opera.

References

• http://www.moljac.hr/biografije/truhelka.htm

1. ↑ http://www.dieuniversitaet-online.at/dossiers/beitrag/news/zagreb-als-ort-der-ersten-frauenbewegung/79.html
2. ↑ http://se3.kobv.de/V/PR594U5A5L1DT1NL3RU1I5JKFUIL4HJVIGGQH2QASVNMYPMQCY-10086?func=meta-3&short-format=002&set_number=046174&set_entry=000001 . &format= 999