Shote Galica

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Shote Galica and her husband Azem Galica (around 1920)

Shote Galica (born Qerime Radisheva ; * 1895 in Radisheva , Vilâyet Kosovo , Ottoman Empire , † 1927 in Fushë-Kruja , Albania ) was a separatist rebel of the paramilitary Kachak movement. Today she is considered a freedom fighter and a popular heroine of the Albanians , especially of Kosovo .

Life

Galica was born in the village of Radisheva in the Drenica region , in what is now Kosovo. In 1919 she took part in an uprising by Kosovar-Albanian separatists against the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in western Kosovo, who sought the unification of Kosovo with Albania. The group was led by her husband Azem Galica , whose movement was part of the separatist movement Komiteti i Mbrojtes Kombëtare së Kosovës . From 1921 to 1923 she was involved in attacks against the Yugoslav army around the demilitarized zone of Junik .

After her husband died of wounds from the fighting in Junik in 1924, Shote Galica took command of the rebel movement in 1925. Together with Bajram Curri , she led fights in Has and Luma . In Çikatova she succeeded in capturing a Yugoslav military commander and some soldiers. In July 1927 she withdrew to Albania, where she died a few months later.

reception

Shote Galica is heroized in Kosovar Albanian folk and popular culture and is anchored in oral narrative traditions as the myth of an Albanian and Kosovar freedom struggle. According to Grandl, she is also perceived as a figure of the Kosovar-Albanian women's movement. The breach of gender roles that Shote Galica performed through clothing and activity as a militia fighter is perceived as typically male is often discussed. She is mostly mentioned in connection with her husband and glorified in different role models.

The actress Liri Lushi played Shote Galica in the play Gërsheti i luftrave (1978).

In Albania she has received the highest heroic status as Heroinë e Popullit (Heroine of the Nation) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anna-Katharina Grandl: Female symbolic figures in the Albanian master story. Identity formation in the Kosovar-Albanian diaspora of Vienna. Thesis . S. 59 ( univie.ac.at [PDF]).
  2. ^ A b Robert Elsie: A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History . IB Tauris, 2012, p. 160 .
  3. ↑ Grandl, p. 111.
  4. ↑ Antonia Young: Women who become men: Albanian sworn virgins. Berg, Oxford 1999, ISBN 1-85973-335-2 , pp. 113 .
  5. ↑ Grandl, p. 99ff.
  6. ↑ Grandl, pp. 111-114.
  7. ↑ Feride Papleka: Shote Galica një, Zhan d'Ark shqiptare. In: Gazeta Shqip. March 8, 2014, accessed May 22, 2016 (Albanian).
personal data
SURNAME Galica, Shote
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Radisheva, Qerime
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Kosovar Albanian rebel
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Radisheva , Vilâyet Kosovo , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH 1927
Place of death Fushë-Kruja , Albania