Vera Albreht

Vera Albreht (née Kessler, 12 February 1895 – 25 May 1971) was a Slovenian poet, writer, publicist and translator.

Life

Vera Albreht was born in 1895 in Krško, Austria-Hungary, where she was baptized Vera Mathilda Maria Paulina Aloisia Kessler.[1] She was born into a bourgeois family who were known as supporters of Slovenian modernism.[2] Her mother was Marija Kessler (née Trenz), an ethnic German socialite, while her father Rudolph Kessler was a Slovene. Her parents' home in Ljubljana was a well known meeting point of the Slovenian literary scene at the time, frequented among others also by her friend Mira Pintar, and Ivan Cankar and Oton Župančič,[2] who married Vera's sister Ana Kessler.

Albreht was educated at the all-girls grammar school in Ljubljana, where she was involved in a school protest against the Habsburg monarchy by wearing red blouses because its soldiers shot at demonstrators.[2]

Albreht studied at the University of Vienna, but never completed her studies due to the outbreak of World War I. During World War I, she worked as a volunteer Red Cross nurse.[2] In 1919 she married the poet and critic Fran Albreht.[1]

During World War II, Albreht and her husband actively participated with the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.[3] They were both imprisoned by the Italian fascist authorities on a number of occasions between 1941 and 1943. In 1944, she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp by the Germans. Albreht later wrote Ravensbriške pesmi (Poems of Ravensbrück) about her experiences.[3]

After the war, Albreht moved with her husband to Ljubljana, where she worked as a publicist and at the Slovene center of International PEN. She died in 1971 in Ljubljana.

Works

Prose

  • 1957 – Lupinica (youth prose)
  • 1960 – Nekoč pod Gorjanci (Once Upon a Time below the Gorjanci Hills) (youth prose)
  • 1964 – Babica in trije vnučki (Granny and Her Three Grandchildren) (youth prose)

Poetry

  • 1950 – Mi gradimo (We Build) (youth poetry)
  • 1950 – Orehi (Walnuts) (youth poetry)
  • 1955 – Vesela abeceda (The Happy Alphabet) (youth poetry)
  • 1958 – Živali pri delu in jelu (Animals at Work) (youth poetry)
  • 1965 – Pustov god (Pust's Celebration) (youth poetry)
  • 1967 – Jutro (Morning) (youth poetry)
  • 1967 – Pri igri (At Play) (youth poetry)
  • 1967 – Večer (Evening) (youth poetry)
  • 1969 – ABC (youth poetry)
  • 1972 – Mornar (The Sailor) (youth poetry)
  • 1972 – Slikarka (The Painter) (youth poetry)
  • 1977 – Ravensbriške pesmi (Ravensbrück Poems)(poetry)
  • 1978 – Dobro jutro (Good Morning) (youth poetry)

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Geburts- und Tauf-Buch. Krško. 1868–1922. p. 101. Retrieved 21 January 2026.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ a b c d "Vera Albreht". Pozabljena polovica. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
  3. ^ a b Montserrat, Jiménez Sureda (10 September 2021). Manual d’història de la dona (in Catalan). Servei de Publicacions de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. p. 446. ISBN 978-84-490-9423-1.
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