Dear All,
we are performing our show in Hotel Imperial in Opatija (Croatia) on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at the 5th FEN Festival from 11:30 am to 3.30 pm.
We will use our rooms or rooms of our crew for the starting points of your stories and journeys. Most of the rooms will be on the grand floor, some on first and some on second floor and also some spaces will be used also in the cellar of the hotel.
The audience will enter on the main entrance, got the information for the "waiting room" in the lobby or on the reception and then will be guided there. At this point I am not sure where I will place the "waiting room" as I would like to have very Shining atmosphere of the show. So there are several possibilities and I will leave it open for the last moment.
As our technical crew will arrive on Tuesday morning, April 9th and they will start transforming our rooms into the stages from Friday April 10th morning. We expect all of you on April 9th or at least on April 10th in the early afternoon.
Our team for Opatija/Abbazia:
Zrinka Kušević, Tanja Vrvilo, Soso Chatzimanoli, Nikša Marinović, Lara Finardi, Jelena Lopatić, Emil Matešić (Bojan Navojec, Nina Violić)
Stanko Juzbašić, Leo Vukelić, Boris Beštak, Boris Bakal, Anja Pletikosa
Milan Žerjav, Siniša Jakovčević
About the Hotel:
This hotel is the second hotel on Adriatic see ever. Build in 1985 and named after the wife of prince Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, princess Stephanie (Stefani) of Belgium. After her husband death she remarried and moved to Hungary.
In 1945 hotel was briefly named Hotel Moskow and Josi Broz Tito gave speech from the main balcony.
About Opatija/Abbazia.
Quotes and links:
"It was only after the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896, that aquatic sports became so popular as to cause a shift from the hitherto, commended winter sojourn in a mild climate to a summertime holiday by the sea. Peter Jordan and Milena Peršić (eds), Österreich und der Tourismus von Opatija (Abbazia) vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg und zur Mitte der 1990er Jahre, Frankfurt / Main: Peter Lang, 1998, p. 298"
we are performing our show in Hotel Imperial in Opatija (Croatia) on Saturday, April 11, 2015 at the 5th FEN Festival from 11:30 am to 3.30 pm.
We will use our rooms or rooms of our crew for the starting points of your stories and journeys. Most of the rooms will be on the grand floor, some on first and some on second floor and also some spaces will be used also in the cellar of the hotel.
The audience will enter on the main entrance, got the information for the "waiting room" in the lobby or on the reception and then will be guided there. At this point I am not sure where I will place the "waiting room" as I would like to have very Shining atmosphere of the show. So there are several possibilities and I will leave it open for the last moment.
As our technical crew will arrive on Tuesday morning, April 9th and they will start transforming our rooms into the stages from Friday April 10th morning. We expect all of you on April 9th or at least on April 10th in the early afternoon.
Our team for Opatija/Abbazia:
Zrinka Kušević, Tanja Vrvilo, Soso Chatzimanoli, Nikša Marinović, Lara Finardi, Jelena Lopatić, Emil Matešić (Bojan Navojec, Nina Violić)
Stanko Juzbašić, Leo Vukelić, Boris Beštak, Boris Bakal, Anja Pletikosa
Milan Žerjav, Siniša Jakovčević
About the Hotel:
This hotel is the second hotel on Adriatic see ever. Build in 1985 and named after the wife of prince Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, princess Stephanie (Stefani) of Belgium. After her husband death she remarried and moved to Hungary.
In 1945 hotel was briefly named Hotel Moskow and Josi Broz Tito gave speech from the main balcony.
About Opatija/Abbazia.
Quotes and links:
"It was only after the first modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896, that aquatic sports became so popular as to cause a shift from the hitherto, commended winter sojourn in a mild climate to a summertime holiday by the sea. Peter Jordan and Milena Peršić (eds), Österreich und der Tourismus von Opatija (Abbazia) vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg und zur Mitte der 1990er Jahre, Frankfurt / Main: Peter Lang, 1998, p. 298"
"Albert
Svetina autore di un raro libro confessione, ricorda come «al
ritorno di Macek da Drvar si giunse alla vera organizzazione
dell`OZNA in Slovenia. Tito informo Macek che, visto che la fine
della guerra si avvicinava, all’OZNA spettava «un ruolo di
primaria importanza per assicurare la presa del potere». Ivan Macek
«Matija» fece ritorno con l`ordine esplicito di Tito secondo il
quale all’OZNA spettava di esercitare il controllo politico
sull’Armata e sui cittadini e quindi servivano quadri nuovi.
Ovviamente, «Macek concordava tutto con Tito trasmettendo a noi i
suoi ordini. Fu Tito a informarlo del parere della missione sovietica
presso il suo quartier generale che a fne della guerra bisognava
eliminare il maggior numero di oppositori politici in modo di evitare
l`assassinio del leader comunista croato Andrija Hebrang indeboli la
posizione del generale Veceslav Holjevac suo amico personale, che nel
1945 è al comando dell’amministrazione militare jugoslava per la
Venezia Giulia, l’Istria, Fiume e il Litorale sloveno (VUJA –
Vojna uprava Jugoslavenske armije za Julijsku krajinu, Istru, Rijeku
i Slovensko Primorje) con sede ad Abbazia. Dopo l’arresto di
Hebrang, Holjevac venne richiamato d’urgenza a Belgrado e spedito
come attaché militare a Berlino Est. Al suo posto al comando della
VUJA viene nominato il Tenente colonnello Mirko Lenac, commissario
politico della 35. divisione della Lika. Nell`estate del 1947 la sede
VUJA venne trasferita da Abbazia a Capodistria, in quanto, sulla base
del accordo di pace con l’Italia, si dovette dar vita al Territorio
Libero di Trieste. Infne il 4 aprile 1951 Mirko Lenac (promosso al
grado di colonnello) venne sostituto dal colonnello Milos Stamatovic,
uomo vicino a Boris Kidric, all`epoca ministro Iederale dell`in-
dustria e agricoltura, responsabile del primo Piano quinquennale
della Jugoslavia."
William Klinger, Il terrore del popolo: storia dell’OZNA, la polizia politica di Tito, 2012
In copertina: Alessandro Cannistrà - Progetto uomo (2002) Trieste, collezione privata
**About Laslo Rajk - USA spy within Tito secret service organization. He went several times in Abbazia and met Gen. Rankovic and other Communist leaders there, probably at OZNA headquarters too.
**About Italian Jews and some destiny of one of them in Abbazia in 1937 (page 220) when Opatija was part of Mussolini fascist Italy.
From: Germans, Italians and Jews, in All od Nothing/Axes of Holocaust by Jonathan Steinberg, Rutlage, 1992/2002
**Private history of Opatija (in Croatian)
**Sandra O'Rourke Glynn private story on Opatija and Croatia
**Sandra O'Rourke Glynn private story on Opatija and Croatia
