Branko Pintarič

Branko Pintarič (born March 30, 1967) is a Slovene writer, actor, and theatre organizer.

Branko Pintarič in Murska Sobota (2018)

He was born in Murska Sobota, in the Prekmurje region, and raised in Rogašovci. He attended high school in Murska Sobota, and later studied philosophy at university. Pintarič organized theatrical groups in the Prekmurje region and in Hungary, and he wrote plays primarily in Prekmurje Slovene. In 2007, he published a book for children in the Prekmurje dialect and standard Slovene titled Kak so šli v lejs trejbit / Kako so šli drvarit (How They Went to Cut Wood). In 2012 published his Prekmurje dialect poems Kmični smej / Temni smeh (Dark Laughter).

In 2008, he stated in the newspaper Večer: "For me, Prekmurje Slovene is not dialect but a distinct language." Pintarič seeks to promote and preserve the Prekmurje dialect.

Works
  • Kak so šli v lejs trejbit / Kako so šli drvarit (How They Went to Cut Wood, 2007)
  • Kmični smej / Temni smeh (Dark Laughter, 2012)
gollark: "we can't immediately totally fix it and it's not a problem which has affected me yet so let's ignore it"
gollark: That is a... food product or something... which exists, alright.
gollark: Besides, if you could somehow control matter with love, people would have isolated the property and made automatic love generators.
gollark: It's not like Christ and Moses and whoever definitely *did* do those things just because it's said they did. You don't have to make a convoluted bizarre theory to explain it.
gollark: Sorry, network issues, back now.

See also

Literature
  • Marija Stanonik: Slovenska narečna književnost, Maribor Slavistično društvo, 2007



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