There at Celovec… Carinthian plebiscite 1920 in literature and music.

On the centenary of the plebiscite in Carinthia, we prepared an exhibition at the Rudolf Maister’s Birthplace in Šutna in Kamnik entitled There at Celovec…, about how this important event in Slovenian history resonated in literature and music at that time and long after. We selected six protagonists who fought for their nation with word and song just like soldiers with a sharp sword and rifle at the front. These were: musicians, choirmasters, composers Lovro Horvat and Pavle Kernjak, doctor of natural sciences and passionate national worker dr. Angela Piskernik, art historian, writer, diplomat dr. Izidor Cankar, writer and politician Prežihov Voranc and priest and writer Fran Ksaver Meško. Some were close associates of Maister, others continued their work even after Carinthia remained in Austria after the plebiscite.

The exhibition will open on Tuesday, September 8, 2020, at 8 p.m. On this occasion, we will also stage a one-act play with the epilogue Plebiscite by dr. Izidor Cankar in the parish garden in Šutna, which was played exactly one hundred years ago, on September 8, 1920, in Loga vas by Lake Wörthersee. The game will be presented in Slovenia for the first time.

The number of seats is limited; they must be booked at the e-mail address predstava.plebiscit@gmail.com or by phone 059 097 580 or in the Rudolf Maister’s Birthhouse in Kamnik no later than September 7, 2020.