DAN ŽENA / WOMEN’S DAY
Jelisaveta Načić (1878–1955) arhitektkinja Iako se krajem 19. veka u Srbiji, u kojoj je samo sedam odsto žena bilo pisme- no, nije blagonaklono gledalo na obra- zovanje žena, ćerka uglednog trgov- ca Mihajla Načića bila je prva žena koja će diplomirati arhitekturu u Beogradu. Njena želja za obrazovanjem je bila toli- ko jaka da je za to potrošila sav svoj mi- raz! Radila je u Ministarstvu građevine na mestu crtača kao prva žena koja je radila u službi rezervisanoj za muškar- ce, i to samo one koji su služili vojsku, a potom i u Inženjersko-arhitektonskom odeljku Beogradske opštine, otvorivši, uz dr Dragu Ljočić, vrata javnog sektora i za žene. Bila je prva žena glavna arhi- tektkinja Beograda, a Kalemegdan, ko- ji je uređivala između dva svetska rata, bio je najotmenije beogradsko šetali- šte. Jedno od remek-dela arhitekture tog vremena su i njena zgrada Osnovne škole Kralj Petar Prvi , Crkva Aleksandra Nevskog, kao i prvi kompleks radničkih stanova na Balkanu. Od prestoničkih le- pota ostaće zapamćeno čuveno Malo stepenište na Kalemegdanu.
JELISAVETA NAČIĆ (1878-1955) ARCHITECT
Despite women’s education being frowned upon in the Serbia of the late 19 th century, where only seven per cent of women were literate, the daughter of prominent merchant Mihajlo Načić was the first woman to graduate from architecture studies in Belgrade. Her desire to be educated was so strong that she spent her entire dowry on her studies! She worked at the Ministry of Construction as a draftswoman, becoming the first woman to work in a service that had previously been reserved exclusively for men, and only those who had served in the army, then she went on to work at the Engineering and Architectural Department of the Municipality of Belgrade, thus paving the way – along with Dr Draga Ljočić – for women to work in the public sector. She was the first woman to serve as the chief architect of Belgrade, while Kalemegdan, which she administered during the interwar period, was Belgrade’s most elegant esplanade. Among the architectural masterpieces of that period are her building of the King Peter I Primary School, the Church of St. Alexander Nevsky and the first complex of workers' apartments in the Balkans. When it comes to the beautiful details of the capital, her famous Small Staircase in Kalemegdan Park remains remembered for its elegance.
Desanka Maksimović (1898–1993) književnica, prevoditeljka
Najstarija od osmoro dece, ćerka učitelja i svešteničke ćerke, studije uporedne knji- ževnosti, istorije i istorije umetnosti na Fi- lozofskom fakultetu u Beogradu završila je 1923. Pred svojom školom je od nepozna- tog čoveka saznala za streljanje đaka u Kra- gujevcu. Po povratku kući zapisala je po- četne stihove Krvave bajke . Godine 1959. izabrana je za dopisnu, a potom i redovnu članicu SANU. Udruženje književnika Srbi- je dodelilo joj je nagradu za životno delo. Pr- va je dobitnica Njegoševe nagrade. Janu- ara 1993. jedna osnovna škola u Beogradu dobija njeno ime – prvi put ime jednog ži- vog pesnika. DESANKA MAKSIMOVIĆ (1898-1993) WRITER, TRANSLATOR The eldest of eight children, Desanka’s father was a teacher and her mother was a priest's daughter. She studied comparative literature, history and art history at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, graduating in 1923. She was in front of her school when an unknown man told her about the shooting of a student in Kragujevac. She returned home and immediately wrote the opening verses of the poem A Bloody Fairy Tale. She was granted the status of a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1959 and later became a full member. She received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Association of Writers of Serbia and became the first woman to win the Njegoš Award. In January 1993, one Belgrade primary school was named after her – marking the first time that a school had been named after a living poet.
Uvek patriotkinje, često su balansirale između borbe za lično ostvarenje i okova koje im je nametalo patrijarhalno društvo Always patriotic, they often struck a balance between their personal struggle for self-realisation and the shackles imposed on them by a patriarchal society
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