The commemoration of the writer, translator and author of "Time" Ivan Ivanji will be held today, Friday, May 17, at 13 p.m. in the Dom omladine in Belgrade, Makedonska 22. The funeral will be in the circle of the family
Writer, translator and author of "Time" Ivan Ivanji he died on May 9 at the age of 96.
He wrote 26 novels, some originally in Serbian, some in German, three collections of short stories, three books of poetry, he wrote plays, children's books, memoirs, essays...
Among others, he translated into German Kisch and Albahari, from German Brecht, Borchert, Grass, Bell, Enzensberger, Jaspers. He translated Hungarian poetry into Serbian.
He worked as a teacher of design geometry, as a journalist, was the artistic director of the Contemporary Theater in Belgrade, deputy manager of the National Theater, and Tito's translator for German.
He was a guest, as he said himself, in diplomacy as an attaché for culture and press at the Yugoslav embassy in Bonn from 1974 to 1978. Until the collapse of the SFRY, he was the general secretary of the Union of Writers of Yugoslavia.
He was born in Zrenjanin in a Jewish medical family. His parents were killed shortly after the German occupation in 1941. He survived the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald. He later wrote of "his beautiful life in hell."
His life ended where he was deported from Novi Sad as a Jew 80 years ago to die - in Weimar, only ten kilometers from his former camp, in Hitler's favorite hotel, on Victory Day over fascism.
He said he was was given as a gift every day after the camp, that he felt victorious just by staying alive.
Tireless until the last hour, had a literary evening at the Weimar Theater dedicated to the Bauhaus under National Socialism and read from his novel "Wrought Iron Letters". He cut the ribbon at the opening of the Museum of Forced Labor in Nazi Germany.
As one of the last living witnesses of the "time of evil", he considered it his duty to constantly warn of the dangers of forgetting, of the return of nationalism, racism and modern dictators, of the death of refugee children fleeing wars and poverty in a world that is once again on milestones.
He said that we must never come to terms with the conditions in which we live.
The commemoration of Ivan Ivanji will be held on Friday, May 17, at 13 p.m. in the Youth Center in Belgrade, Makedonska 22.
Burial will be in the circle of the family.
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