Drugi jezik na kojem je dostupan ovaj članak: Bosnian
The Slovenian media house Delo starts the new year with the celebration of their 60th anniversary and a big marketing campaign that places Delo in today’s time and space. The celebration begins with a ceremony on Wednesday, January 9, at Cankarjev dom Gallery. The ceremony will be opened by Dejan Židan, Parliament Speaker of the Republic of Slovenia. Guests will also be welcomed by Stojan Petrič, FMR President, and Uroš Urbas, Editor in Chief at Delo. As part of the program, Delo’s Person of the Year 2018 will be named, as well as Delo’s best journalists in the past year. At the end of the ceremony, the celebration will move to the lobby, for the opening of the Museum of Press, in the event titled Journal – the first print of history, by Ali Žerdin.
On May 1, 2019 it will be exactly 60 years since the first issue of the magazine under the name Delo. Delo was created through the merger of the daily newspapers Slovenski izvještač and Ljudsko pravo. Over time, it became the central Slovenian magazine with urban spirit.
The first part of the show will be the 60th anniversary of Dela’s history, from its founding to breakthrough moments in the sixties, seventies and eighties, including Tito’s death at a time when Delo achieved record breaking. It will also remember the events at the time of the fall of Yugoslavia and the crucial moments of the Slovenian independence and the decades of the Slovenian state.
The first part of the show will be a tribute to Delo’s 60 year history, from its founding, over major events in the sixties, seventies and eighties, including Tito’s death at a time when Delo was achieving record breaking readership. The event will also recall the events during the breakup of Yugoslavia and the crucial moments of the Slovenian independence in the decades of the Slovenian statehood.
Awards for Delo’s journalists and the Person of the Year
The second part of the ceremony will be dedicated to people – to the journalists covering important stories and to those who are the key actors of those stories. For the third consecutive year, Delo’s editorial board will award its journalists and photojournalists, for the best photograph, for the most promising journalist, for Delo’s journalistic achievement and two life-achievement awards.
At the peak of the ceremony, for the 29th time, Delo’s Person of the Year will be named, and the project is traditionally supported by Triglav Insurance. At the beginning of December, Delo named ten nominees, persons who marked the previous year, and gave readers the opportunity to vote and select this year’s winner of this prestigious title. Among the nominated were Uroš Ahčan and Vojko Didanovič, Alenka Artnik, Jakov Fak, Janja Garnbret, Bernarda Gostečnik, Vlado Kreslin, Tina Lebar, Dušan Merc, Urša Zgojznik i Bronja Žakelj.
- Surgeons Uroš Ahčan and Vojko Didanovič presented new achievements in aesthetic surgery on a global scale, and improved the life quality for one patient with full nose reconstruction.
- Queen of depths, Alenka Artnik, in July last year in Bahamas free dived to the depth of 105 meters, matching the world record.
- Biathlon runner Jakov Fak is a remarkable athlete, a man with brilliant sport successes and moral authority even beyond the sport courses.
- World’s No.1 climber, Janja Garnbret, is modest, simple and down to earth, which are the characteristics that take the teenager to even higher heights.
- Sister Bernarda Gostečnik is the keeper of the legacy of the famous Felicita Kalinšek. She modernized the great Slovenian chef, and brought the cookbook to the 21st
- Vlado Kreslin is the poet and musician who has never received the great Prešern’s Award, and he absolutely should have. After watching his film portrait, the Delo jury is even more convinced of that.
- Young researcher Tina Lebar is considered a visionary of biological computing. Last year she received two great recognitions, one of which was the Golden Mark of Jožef Štefan for the best doctoral thesis in the country and abroad.
- Retired dean Dušan Merc is one of the rare people who bravely warn of the fallacies of the Slovenian education system. He protected the minor victims of sexual violence, he banned perpetrators from entering the school, and he all did that discretely. When it came time to talk about it, he publicly talked about it without any restraint.
- Anti-plastic advocate and president of the Ecologists Without Borders, Urša Zgojznik, warned that a step further must be made in environmental protection and waste management with the project Let’s Clean Up Slovenia.
- Bronja Žakelj turned her life story into a great novel, she raised the questions of life and death, and showed not only how to survive, but how to live.
Exhibition of the Museum or the Press
After the event, all guests will gather in the lobby of Cankarjev Dom, where the exhibition of the Museum of the Press will be officially opened, entitled The Journal, the first print of history. The exhibition was set up in collaboration between Delo and Cankarjev Dom, and its author is editor at Delo Ali Žerdin. The exhibition will be open from January 10 to February 10, 2019, and from February 21 to April 1, 2019.
Žerdin will present to the general public a part of his personal press museum, and will feature magazines from Slovenia and the world that have emerged at major turning points in history. Presentations will include magazines printed since the Slovenian independence until September 11, 2011, from Nixon’s resignation, which was sped up by the magazine owned by the Graham family, to the landing on the Moon, from the murder of John F. Kennedy and the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia to the end World War II.
In short, the exhibition will be a lecture in journalistic history. It will discuss how the press glorified the rulers of these regions – from the emperor Franjo Jožef to the members of the Karadjordjevic dynasty and Josip Broz. Cuban journals, issued on the occasion of the death of Fidel Castro, will also be featured. Exhibition will also include global and local editions published on the occasion of Tito’s death, all the Time covers with Yugoslav leaders, Soviet magazines lamenting Stalin’s death, and dailies published amid Hitler’s death. Some of the banned magazines from history, which were preserved in personal collections of fellow journalists, will also be presented.