E-xhibition Maribor Theatre Festival 2013

Virtual exhibition prepared by the Maribor Theatre Festival, Novi ZATO. Institute and the Slovenian Theatre Institute in collaboration with Prodok teater TV, the Celje Historical Archives, the archive of the Centre for Theatre and Film Studies at the Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television, University of Ljubljana (CTF UL AGRFT), the Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana, the Drama of the Slovene National Theatre Maribor, Slovene Mladinsko Theatre, Celje People’s Theatre and Mini teater Ljubljana.

A year ago, several institutions joined forces and presented a pilot project at the Maribor Theatre Festival – the virtual exhibition Maribor Theatre Festival 2012. The collaboration arose out of the necessity to digitise Slovene theatre history, that is, out of the desire to save the highlights of Slovene theatre and acting from oblivion, making them available to a wider audience via the World Wide Web.
We also intended from the very onset to gradually expand the project by adding not just the "previous year’s” recipients but also the portraits of former Borštnik Ring recipients and former Grand Prix recipients.

We remain faithful to that decision: whereas in the first year we presented within the frame of the e-xhibition the best production of the Maribor Theatre Festival 2012 The Storm and the recipient of the Borštnik Ring 2012, Igor Samobor, this year we have prepared two digital exhibitions: Maribor Theatre Festival 2011 and Maribor Theatre Festival 2013.
The first one is dedicated to the production of Bartleby, the Scrivener performed by Mini teater Ljubljana and to the theatre achievements of Milada Kalezić, and the second one to the production of The Crazy Locomotive performed by the Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana, as well as to Olga Kacjan.

The virtual exhibitions Maribor Theatre Festival are thus becoming an integral part of the festival as well as of other Slovene theatre institutions and associations. We hope that they will not only attract theatre lovers but also be resourceful for professional researchers. We believe that they will contribute to a greater visibility and promotion of Slovene theatre and culture in general on the international scene. That is why the e-xhibition is available also in English while "the exhibition content” will become and remain part of other digital Internet collections such as, for instance, Europeana.

As of 18 October 2014 the e-xhibitions Maribor Theatre Festival 2011 and Maribor Theatre Festival 2013 will be accessible at www.sigledal.org and on the websites of the participating institutions. | Project initiators: Alja Predan (Maribor Theatre Festival), Mojca Jan Zoran, MA, and Ivo Svetina (Slovenian Theatre Institute); project coordinator: Samo M. Strelec (Novi Zato. Institute); Curator of the E-xhibition: Tea Rogelj, MA (Slovenian Theatre Institute); Computer Programming: Gregor Matevc (Novi Zato. Institute); data input: Daša Šprinčnik (Maribor Theatre Festival); IPR and copyright arrangements: Tamara Matevc (Novi Zato. Institute); digitalisation: Dušan Nelec (Slovenian Theatre Institute) | The e-xhibition was realised in collaboration with: Dr Bojan Himmelreich (Celje Historical Archives), Simona Ješelnik (CTF UL AGRFT), Branka Nikl Klampfer (Mini teater), Sandra Požun (SNT Maribor – Drama), Tone Stojko (Prodok teater TV and Ljubljana Society for the Preservation of Theatre Heritage), Janina Žagar (Mini teater) | Translations into English: Katarina Pejović and Jana Renée Wilcoxen; translations of reviews about Bartleby, the Scrivener: Katarina Krapež, translations of reviews about The Crazy Locomotive: Tina Mahkota.