Rajko Đurić
Rajko Đurić ( Cyrillic Рајко Ђурић, last name also Germanized Djuric ; born October 3, 1947 in Malo Orašje , municipality of Smederevo , Yugoslavia ; † November 2, 2020 in Belgrade , Serbia ) was a Yugoslav and Serbian author and politician .
life and work
Đurić studied at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Belgrade and did his doctorate on the culture of the Roma living in Yugoslavia , of which he himself belonged. From 1990 to 2000 he was President of the International Roma Union . In the 1980s he was the head of the culture section of the Belgrade newspaper Politika . Shortly before the beginning of the Yugoslav Wars, he moved to Berlin in 1991 because of his pacifist attitude and his opposition to the Serbian President Slobodan Milošević . He became a member of the PEN Center Germany . In 2002 Đurić was awarded the Swedish Tucholsky Prize honored for writers living in exile.
He has written poetry as well as essays and books on historical, cultural and literary topics. From 2001 he was General Secretary of the International Roma PEN Center .
In 2004 he returned to Belgrade. In the parliamentary elections in January 2007 he was elected to the Serbian parliament as a candidate for the Unija Roma Srbije party (Roma Union of Serbia), of which he was chairman. In the subsequent early parliamentary election in Serbia in 2008 , he was no longer able to win a mandate. Đurić died after a long illness in the autumn of 2020 at the age of 73 in Belgrade.
Works
- Gypsy elegies: poems in Romani and German. Buske, Hamburg, 1989, ISBN 3-87118-923-5 .
- with A. Bertolt Bengsch : The disintegration of Yugoslavia. Morgenbuch-Verlag, Berlin, 1992, ISBN 3-371-00325-6 .
- Roma and Sinti in the Mirror of German Literature: An Essay (= Studies on Tsiganology and Folklore; 13). Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al., 1995, ISBN 3-631-48018-0 .
- with A. Bertolt Bengsch: Without a home - without a grave: the history of the Roma and Sinti (= Anne Frank Shoah library). Structure, Berlin, 1996, ISBN 3-351-02418-5 .
- The literature of the Roma and Sinti. Ed. Parabolis, Berlin, 2002, ISBN 3-88402-307-1 .
- with Ljatif Mefaileskoro Demir and Ivana Stojanovska: Tikni historija e Romengiri = Kratka istorija na Romite. RKEC Darhia, Skopje, 2005, ISBN 9989-2113-1-0 (Macedonian; "A Brief History of the Roma")
- with Antun Miletić: Историја холокауста Рома / Istorija holokausta Roma. Politika ad, Belgrade, 2008, ISBN 978-86-7607-092-3 (“History of the Holocaust against the Roma”).
Web links
- Literature by and about Rajko Đurić in the catalog of the German National Library
- Martin Hatzius: Gypsy poetry? Rajko Djuric wrote the first systematic literary history of the Roma and Sinti. In: New Germany . January 16, 2003, archived from the original on July 2, 2003 (reproduced on balcab.ch).
- Martin Leidenfrost: Ostwind Column: A wise Rome. In: Friday . April 20, 2007, archived from the original on March 10, 2016 .
- Predsednik URS: Dr. Rajko Đurić. Unije Roma Srbije, archived from the original on February 9, 2011 (Serbian).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Preminuo novinar, književnik i borac za prava Roma Rajko Djuric. In: Danas.sr . November 2, 2020, accessed November 3, 2020 (Serbian).
- ↑ Preminuo Rajko Duric, novinar, književnik i borac za prava Roma. In: telegraf.rs. November 2, 2020, accessed November 2, 2020 (Serbian).
- ↑ Ramuš Muarem: In memoriam Prof. Dr. Rajko Djuric. In: RomaTimes.News. November 2, 2020, accessed November 2, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Đurić, Rajko |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Djuric, Rajko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav or Serbian author and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 3, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Smederevo |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 2020 |
| Place of death | Belgrade |