Mladje

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The mladje ( Slovene for young wood, offspring) was a Carinthian Slovene-language cultural and literary magazine that appeared from 1960 to 1991. In the 1960s and 1970s mladje was the central driving force behind modern Slovenian literature in Carinthia .

The magazine was founded in 1960 by Florjan Lipuš , Erik Prunč and Karel Smolle . They were all students at the Tanzenberg high school and had previously worked in the student magazine Kres (1952–1958). Gustav Januš soon joined the editorial team, who took over the lyric department. Until 1963 the authors published, also known as mladevci, under pseudonyms , some of them were still students at the time. The authors released these pseudonyms in 1963 in volume 5. In 1970 Andrej Kokot , Janko Messner and Valentin Polanšek were added, but only Messner belonged to the smaller group. Lipuš, Januš and Messner published most of their texts in mladje until 1981 .

From the mid-1960s, Gustav Januš in particular began to publish increasingly critical essays and fundamental articles on cultural policy. From the end of the 1960s, the whole magazine was further politicized. Due to the events of these years (1970 nationalist anniversary celebrations of the Carinthian plebiscite , 1972 town sign tower , 1976 "special kind" census), Janko Messner in particular became increasingly involved in national and national politics in the magazine and increasingly shaped its cultural, literary and aesthetic profile. In these years, however, the non-literary contributions predominated.

mladje gave young authors a forum who wrote against the ruling cultural scene. The employees of the MLADJE placed their literary work in the broader dimensions of general literary development and dared the leap into freer, more sophisticated literary forms and content, consciously tried to tear down every cultural and literary ghetto and strived to be open on all sides.

The aim of mladje was to cultivate literature as an art form in the Slovenian area of ​​Carinthia . The aim was to help new spellings, themes and tendencies of European modernism to break through in Slovenian literature. Mladje provided the most important impetus in its first phase. The highlights are three book publications by mladje authors: 1964 the prose volume Črtice mimogrede by Boro Kostanek (Florja Lipuš), in 1965 the poetry volumes Tihožitja by Niko loan (Erik Prunč) and Ujeti krik by Miško Maček (Karel Smolle). These works as well as those of Lipuš created the aesthetic basis for today's Slovenian literature in Carinthia.

In 1981, Lipuš stopped working on the mladje , tired of the many arguments he was exposed to as editor and author. In retrospect, he described the situation in 1984 as follows: We do not want to adapt our culture to the European level, we are screwing it down to the level of the sacristies and confessionals with all our might.

Lipuš's work was taken over by a group of younger authors who were born around 1960 and mostly graduated from the Slovenian high school in Klagenfurt. The editor was Jani Oswald , other authors were Rudi Benétik , Maja Haderlap , and a little later Fabjan Hafner and Cvetka Lipuš . Messner and Polanšek remained as authors from the older generation.

The magazine had not been published quarterly since 1975, and its scope and intellectual range also decreased. In 1990 the responsible editor Maja Haderlap made another rescue attempt, among other things by working with Slovenian authors from Italy. However, this approach stagnated after a few issues, the last issue appeared in 1991. At this point in time, the magazine had lost much of its aesthetic and socio-political relevance at the time

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Mirko Bogataj: The Carinthian Slovenes. A people on the edge of the middle . kitab, Klagenfurt 2008, ISBN 978-3-902585-16-5 , p. 222f.
  2. ^ A b c d e Janez Strutz: Lines of development of the Carinthian Slovenian prose literature in the 20th century . In: Andreas Moritsch (Ed.): Kärntner Slovenen 1900-2000. Balance of the 20th century . Mohorjeva / Hermagoras, Klagenfurt / Celovec, Ljubljana, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85013-753-8 , pp. 281–301, here 288–297.
  3. ↑ Hellwing Valentin: The special case. Carinthian contemporary history 1918-2004 . Hermagoras / Mojohrjeva, Klagenfurt / Celovec, Ljubljana / Laibach, Vienna / Dunaj 2005, ISBN 3-7086-0108-4 , p. 317.
  4. ↑ Florjan Lipuš: O tem, kako na Koroškem doraščamo . In: Naši razgledi , January 27, 1984, p. 40; quoted from Janez Strutz: Developments in the Carinthian Slovenian prose literature in the 20th century , p. 288.
  5. ^ Janez Strutz: Lines of Development of the Carinthian Slovenian Prosal Literature in the 20th Century , 2000, p. 297.

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