A few days running up to Christmas, at a farm house in Dobindol (a meeting place for the headquarters), Filip Kumbatovič, Ignac Koprivec, Karel Destovnik-Kajuh and Boris Kraigher met to lay the foundations for the establishment of the national theatre on the liberated territory. Until then there had only been various Front groups, the first one operating already in 1942. The members were based at Stari Log in the hills of Kočevje. In to the offensive at Rog, they were ambushed by the enemy, their lives coming to an end soon therafter: Kardelj's brother Janez (collaborator of Šentjakob's Theatre), Drago Blanč-Matija and Marjan Kovič-Miha (both members of Sintič's Theatre), Ivan Rob (poet and satirist) and Francka Herz- Urška (singer) as well as Miran Jarc (the mysteriously disappeared poet and writer).
Matej Bor
on culture as an important aspect of the liberation struggle
Filip Kumbatovič Kalan
on the Semič congress in January 1944 where the idea to found the Slovene National Theatre (SNT) was first configured; on the program directions of the SNT, cadre difficulties, culture and politics as well as the meaning of SNT in the history of world theatre
Excerpt from the TV programme Theatre amidst the Rifles (Time that Lives), directed by Helena Koder, produced by RTV Slovenija, 1977
Decree of the Executive Committe of the Liberation Front to found the Slovene National Theatre on the liberated territories.
