{"id":164767,"date":"2025-02-14T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=164767"},"modified":"2025-02-14T16:06:28","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T14:06:28","slug":"joakim-vujic-father-of-serbian-theater-the-story-of-a-genius-who-founded-the-first-theater-in-serbia-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/joakim-vujic-father-of-serbian-theater-the-story-of-a-genius-who-founded-the-first-theater-in-serbia-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"JOAKIM VUJI\u0106, FATHER OF SERBIAN THEATER: The story of a genius who founded the first theater in Serbia (PHOTO)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

With the Turkish edicts of 1830 and 1833, Serbia <\/a>gained autonomy and the right to build cultural, educational, and health institutions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to the fact that Kragujevac was the capital of renewed Serbia at that time, where Prince Milo\u0161 Obrenovi\u0107 built his court with administrative and governing apparatus, the following were established in it: The Prince’s Serbian Printing House, Serbian News under the editorship of Dimitrije Davidovi\u0107, the Gymnasium (1833), the Prince’s Serbian Theater (1835), the Prince’s Serbian Band, founded by Jozef \u0160lezinger, the Lyceum of the Principality of Serbia (1838), a museum, a library, the first gallery, the Kragujevac Court (1820), a hospital, the first pharmacy. This led to the arrival of learned Serbs from Vojvodina, who would begin pioneering work in the cultural and educational field in Kragujevac.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first theater performances in Kragujevac are mentioned in 1825. They were prepared and performed by teacher \u0110or\u0111e Evgenijevi\u0107 with his students. At the invitation of Prince Milo\u0161, Joakim Vuji\u0107 arrived in Kragujevac in the autumn of 1834, as a person of great theatrical experience and a connoisseur of a vast theatrical repertoire. He was appointed director of the theater with the task of organizing the work of the theater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Prince’s Serbian Theater was housed in the adapted premises of the printing house and had a stage, boxes, and a parterre. The theater’s repertoire mainly consisted of works by Joakim Vuji\u0107, and the acting ensemble, apart from Vuji\u0107, who was the main actor and director, consisted of young clerks and Gymnasium students. The first performances were held during the session of the Sretenje Assembly, from February 2nd to 4th, 1835, when Vuji\u0107’s plays were shown with music composed by Jo\u017eef \u0160lezinger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the First World War, on improvised stages in refugee military camps in which actors from Kragujevac also participated, as well as in the city, by organizing performances with patriotic texts, the morale of soldiers and the people was raised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the initiative of Branislav Nu\u0161i\u0107 and theater art enthusiasts, the National Theater was founded in Kragujevac in 1935 \u2013 the first professional theater after a hundred-year break. Due to material difficulties, the theater operated for only one season when, by the decision of the Banovina Administration in Novi Sad, it grew into the Theater of the Danube Banovina. This theater officially covered the territory of Kragujevac until the beginning of the Second World War.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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During the time of intensive development of self-government, the Kragujevac Theater, which since 1965 has been named the “Joakim Vuji\u0107” Theater, and since 1970 the Theater, achieves top achievements in terms of repertoire and stage realization of works. A fire at the beginning of 1969 temporarily disabled work in the theater itself, but performances intensified on permanent stages in other places, tours and exchanges with theaters in the country and abroad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Theater Day, every February 15th, the oldest Serbian theater presents the “Joakim Vuji\u0107” statue to eminent Serbian writers, actors, directors, set designers and composers (awarded for an exceptional contribution to the development of theater art in Serbia) and a ring with the image of Joakim Vuji\u0107 (awarded for an exceptional contribution to the development of the Theater and the affirmation of its reputation in the country and abroad).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Izvor<\/strong>: Alo.rs<\/a>, Foto<\/strong>: Wikimedia Creative Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the Turkish edicts of 1830 and 1833, Serbia gained autonomy and the right to build cultural, educational, and health institutions. Thanks to the fact that Kragujevac was the capital of renewed Serbia at that time, where Prince Milo\u0161 Obrenovi\u0107 built his court with administrative and governing apparatus, the following were established in it: The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":164771,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[561,566,554,4975,4976,233,4977,585,562,801,5007,113,4284],"class_list":["post-164767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","tag-history-of-serbia","tag-history-of-the-serbs","tag-istorija-srbije","tag-joakim-vujic","tag-knjazevsko-srpski-teatar","tag-kragujevac","tag-pozoriste","tag-serbian-culture","tag-serbian-history","tag-serbian-literature","tag-serbian-theater","tag-srbija","tag-theater","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164767"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164813,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164767\/revisions\/164813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}