Venue and date: State Archives in Pazin, 27 November 2015

Organiser: State Archives in Pazin

 

Exhibit at a glance:

Tugomil Ujčić is a professor, poet and playwright, otherwise Pazinac. The archives prepared an exhibition for him because he gave the Archive 3600 volumes of valuable books and magazines. The catalog mostly analyzes his poetry and one drama. The author evaluates Ujčić, with all his flaws, as a good writer. (Mladenka Hammer, senior librarian)

The 20th anniversary of the death of one of the most famous Pazinians, poet and professor Tugomil Ujčić, was marked by the State Archives in Pazin with an exhibition and the publication of a catalogue in which his literary and publicistic work was presented and evaluated for the first time. At the opening of the exhibition, which was enriched by the interpretation of Ujčić's poetry by high school students from Pazin, the director of the State Archives in Pazin, Elvis Orbanić, pointed out that Tugomil Ujčić dedicated his work to the Chakavian space of the beloved Pazin region and Istria, and he was also a great friend of the Archives, giving this institution his entire library with a total of 3,600 volumes of books and magazines, including 184 old books printed before 1835. This exhibition is therefore called ‘Prof. Tugomil Ujčić: life, work, library’, and the author of the exhibition and catalogue, Mladenka Hammer, told Ujčić that he was ‘the deserving Istranin, especially the deserving Pazinac’, who dedicated more of his books to his city. She introduced the guests to the life of Tugomil Ujčić, born in 1906 in Pazin. In 1919, Before the Italian occupation of Istria, Ujčić went to the then Kingdom of Yugoslavia, continued his education in Karlovac, and studied in Belgrade with the help of the then Belgrade Archbishop, also Pazinc, Josip Antun Ujčić, and after graduating from college he worked as a teacher in several places in Serbia, all the way to Kragujevac, where in 1941 he witnessed the German shooting of 7,000 people, including 300 students and professors. Kragujevac's tragedy left a deep mark on him and he dedicated two of his books to her. He returned to Istria immediately after his liberation, for the next 16 years he taught Croatian language and literature at the renovated Pazin Gymnasium, then he taught for two years at the Pula Pedagogical Academy, and since 1964 when he retired until his death in 1995 he lives and creates in his native Pazin. Tugomil Ujčić is the author of 26 books (some of them co-authored with his brother Vitomir), including 11 collections of poems, several dramas, and a number of historical-publicist and several linguistic and pedagogical works. (D. ŠIŠOVIĆ, retrieved from: http://www.glasistre.hr/vijesti/kultura/poticaj-za-vrednovanje-pjesnistva-tugomila-ujcica-515389, 01.12.2015.)

 

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