Rudolf Maister - a hundred years of the northern border

With the presentation of the book Rudolf Maister – a hundred years of the northern border, which was recently published by the Mladinska knjiga Publishing House, we mark the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy and the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. In 1918/19 significant political, military and diplomatic movements took place, which laid down the boundaries of the Slovene national territory and the state, as is still the case today. Rudolf Maister has the decisive, literally historic merit for this.

Rudolf Maister (1874, Kamnik-1934, Unec), general, poet and bibliophile, attended a gymnasium in Kranj and Ljubljana and then a cadet school in Vienna. As an officer he served in Ljubljana, Celje, Maribor, Klagenfurt and elsewhere. Inhuman courage was enhanced and strengthened by Slovenian literature, culture and freedom. When on the decisive day, on November 1, 1918, he assumed the realization that the fate of Maribor, eastern Styria and southern Carinthia in his hands, the overthrow and everything else happened with a movie haste.

His life story is described in the book by Mihael Glavan, studies on his versatile creativity and relevant reminiscences about his work were contributed by Igor Grdina, Andrej Misson, Alenka Puhar, Milček Komelj, Vlasta Stavbar, Alenka Juvan, Peter Krečič and Milan Lovrenčič. A large selection of documentary and pictorial materials was made by Primož Premzl, while the reprints of memorial articles were made by Aleš Berger.

The event will be attended by Alenka Juvan, Andrej Misson, Vlasta Stavbar, Alenka Puhar, Mihael Glavan and Primož Premzl. The discussion will be linked by the editor Nela Malečkar. A few Maister’s songs will be staged by the First Slovene Singing Society of Lira, led by Andrej Misson.