Vera Albreht

Vera Albreht (, 12 February 1895 – 25 May 1971) was a Slovenian poet, writer, publicist and translator.

Life Vera Albreht was born in 1895 in Krško, Austria-Hungary, where she was baptized Vera Mathilda Maria Paulina Aloisia Kessler. She was born into a bourgeois family who were known as supporters of Slovenian modernism. Her mother was Marija Kessler , an ethnic German socialite, while her father Rudolph Kessler was a Slovene. Her parents' home in Ljubljana was a well known meeting point of the Slovenian literary scene at the time, frequented among others also by her friend Mira Pintar, and Ivan Cankar and Oton Župančič, They were both imprisoned by the Italian fascist authorities on a number of occasions between 1941 and 1943. In 1944, she was sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp by the Germans. Albreht later wrote Ravensbriške pesmi (Poems of Ravensbrück) about her experiences.

After the war, Albreht moved with her husband to Ljubljana, where she worked as a publicist and at the Slovene center of International PEN. She died in 1971 in Ljubljana.

Works Prose

1957 – Lupinica (youth prose) 1960 – Nekoč pod Gorjanci (Once Upon a Time below the Gorjanci Hills) (youth prose) 1964 – Babica in trije vnučki (Granny and Her Three Grandchildren) (youth prose)

Poetry

1950 – Mi gradimo (We Build) (youth poetry) 1950 – Orehi (Walnuts) (youth poetry) 1955 – Vesela abeceda (The Happy Alphabet) (youth poetry) 1958 – Živali pri delu in jelu (Animals at Work) (youth poetry) 1965 – Pustov god (Pust's Celebration) (youth poetry) 1967 – Jutro (Morning) (youth poetry) 1967 – Pri igri (At Play) (youth poetry) 1967 – Večer (Evening) (youth poetry) 1969 – ABC (youth poetry) 1972 – Mornar (The Sailor) (youth poetry) 1972 – Slikarka (The Painter) (youth poetry) 1977 – Ravensbriške pesmi (Ravensbrück Poems)(poetry) 1978 – Dobro jutro (Good Morning) (youth poetry)