The editorial board of the weekly "Vreme" has declared Dr. Nenad Leibensperger, conservator, as the Person of the Year by a majority of votes. Republic Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments.
The prize has been awarded for improving the work of institutions in the public interest for a quarter of a century.
In an age when rebellious students and society are fighting for institutions to do their job, doing their job according to the law becomes heroism because it comes with pressures, threats and threats to material and physical existence.
Leibensperger, the man at the head of the Real Estate Registry cultural assets at the Republic Institute, refused to remove the buildings General Staff from the registry. And at the cost of losing his job or something worse happening.
This historian, together with his colleagues, preserved the image of an institution and immeasurably contributed to preserving, for now, the cultural, historical and architectural values and public interest in the center Belgrade.
In this context, Leibensperger and his colleagues resisted both the superiors and the most powerful people in this country, the combined pressure of political power and capital.
Earlier in his career, Leibensperger distinguished himself as a conscientious defender of cultural monuments and tirelessly explained the importance of remembering the anti-fascist struggle and suffering in the Great War.
A big conversation with Nenad Leibensperger will be published in the first issue of "Vremen" next year, on January 8.
The Person of the Year of the weekly "Vreme" has been chosen since 2001.
Previous winners: Božidar Đelić (2001), Mlađan Dinkić (2002), Ljiljana Raičević (2003), Rasim Ljajić (2004), Vladimir Vukčević (2005), Zdravko Ponoš (2006), Sonja Licht (2007), Vigor Majić (2008), Milica Delević (2009), Dragan Đilas (2010), Ivan Tasovac. (2011), Jovan Ćulibrk (2012), Branko Kukić (2013), Olja Bećković (2014), Saša Janković (2015), Ivan Ivanji (2016), Ivan Medenica (2017), Tatjana Lazarević (2018), Ivanka Popović (2019), Pavle Petrović (2021), Nikola Kovačević (2022) and Dragan Bjeloglić (2023) and collectively rebellious male and female students (2024).
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