Svetlana Mati\u0107 has been working for years on preserving the Serbian language and Cyrillic script, as well as traditions and national identity in Austria. The Cultural and Educational Community of Serbia presented a portrait of professor and writer Svetlana Mati\u0107, who has been creating and contributing to the culture of our diaspora in Vienna for a long time. The ceremonial presentation of the author of 17 books, who began as a writer of primers and a children\u2019s poet while teaching Serbian to our children in Viennese schools, was held with a special program featuring the young pianist Evangelina Velousis and the Children\u2019s Cultural Center Belgrade under the baton of Sne\u017eana Despotovi\u0107, conductor of the RTS children\u2019s choir.<\/p>\n
As stated by the CEC Secretary General, \u017divorad Ajda\u010di\u0107, Svetlana has done a lot since then in the field of preserving the Serbian language and our culture in the diaspora around the world, and especially in Austria, by organizing various cultural events. As the president of the Wilhelmina Mina Karad\u017ei\u0107 Society, located in the Association of Serbian Clubs in Vienna, she authored four solo exhibitions: Wilhelmina Mina Karad\u017ei\u0107, Viennese Traces of Serbs, Vrdnik Fairy \u2013 Milica Stojadinovi\u0107 Srpkinja, and Mileva Mari\u0107 Einstein.<\/p>\n
The presentation of the portrait was held on the occasion of marking seven decades of CEC, said Secretary General Ajda\u010di\u0107 and added that \u2018for her great contribution to preserving the Serbian language and Cyrillic script, as well as tradition and preserving national identity in Austria, Svetlana Mati\u0107 has received all the important cultural state awards\u2019.<\/p>\n
As Svetlana Mati\u0107 said after the presentation, in trying to organize anniversaries and writing about famous Serbs who had lived and worked in Vienna \u2013 Vuk, Branko Radi\u010devi\u0107, Dositej, Njego\u0161 and others \u2013 she devoted special attention to the work of women. \u2013 Those who had made a special contribution to our culture and history were often neglected in the past, in patriarchal societies, and their traces are often lost. Considering the contribution of our advanced creative women on the world stage, in addition to the first Serbian poet Milica Stojadinovi\u0107 Srpkinja, who had collected material for Vuk, and Mina Karad\u017ei\u0107, who had stayed with her father until the end of her life in Vienna and whose contribution to the translation of Vuk\u2019s work is immeasurable, I also dedicated the book to our scientist Mileva Mari\u0107 Einstein. Our first mathematician, who had only an oral exam left to complete her doctorate, remained forever in her husband\u2019s shadow, unjustifiably neglected \u2013 she says. Mati\u0107\u2019s book about Mileva Mari\u0107 and the works Traces of the Viennese Serbs and Serbs in Austria, which she wrote with Marko Lopu\u0161in, were published by the Novi Sad-based publishing house Prometej.<\/p>\n
At the end of the promotion, announcing the current Vienna exhibition on Nikola Tesla in Belgrade in July, Mati\u0107 invited the children\u2019s choir to sing Ovo je Srbija, and in return she recited a poem from the collection Majka to the children. \u2013 I remind the new generation of parents that through education from a young age, one acquires a love for preserving one\u2019s language and traditions \u2013 she said.<\/p>\n
Source: Politika<\/p>\n
Photo M. Niki\u0107<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Svetlana Mati\u0107 has been working for years on preserving the Serbian language and Cyrillic script, as well as traditions and national identity in Austria. The Cultural and Educational Community of Serbia presented a portrait of professor and writer Svetlana Mati\u0107, who has been creating and contributing to the culture of our diaspora in Vienna for a long time. The ceremonial presentation of the author of 17 books, who began as a writer of primers and a children\u2019s poet while teaching Serbian to our children in Viennese<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,76,77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vijesti","category-vijesti-dijaspora","category-vijesti-republika-srpska"],"yoast_head":"\n