Alma M. Karlin

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Ida Willibald Maximilian Alma Karlin was a Slovenian and was born to parents who did not speak well Slovenian language. She is a citizen of the world, nomad of geographical vastness, polyglot, writer, ethnologist, theosophist and researcher of depths of the human soul. She was peculiar and free, without borders, far ahead of its time: she was simply Alma Karlin.

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»Me? I am happy because my heart is the base of your heart and I am the grass under your feet. In addition, I do not belong to people who are grimly staring into their cloud of sadness. I grab my cloud and turn it in such way, that I see only its brighter part«

                                           Alma Karlin: Isolanthis

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Alma Karlin, who along with counts of Celje wrote a history of the city, is once again returning to her native city of Celje. Her permanent collections are set in Celje’s Regional Museum and in 2010 her house in Pečovnik above Celje was rebuilt.
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A bronze statue of Alma M. Karlin was put on the Krekov trg in Celje in 2010 as a memory of the 60th anniversary of her death and the 120-anniversary of her birth, which was one year earlier. The statue is a work of sculptor Vasilij Ćetković. Vision of famous Alma was in the first half of the 20th century too unusual and unacceptable, so her mentality and activity are getting the true meaning until today…