At today's run, I decided to take a closer look at the birthplace of Maksa Samsa, the domestic poet. As you can see, space is completely abandoned. The ruins of the house are in the background.
Who was Maksa Samsa?Data source: Kamra.
Maksa Samsa was born on Dolnji Zemon near Ilirska Bistrica on October 12, 1904. She was the fifth of ten children on a large farm, with a mill and a saw in the idyllic environment of the river Reka. At the house it was said at Malnar's.
From 1923 to 1930 she worked as a teacher. After 1935, due to illness, she left the service and returned home. Between 1943 and 1944 she worked as a teacher at the partisan school in Vrbovo near Ilirska Bistrica.
Her poems were published by many Slovenian magazines: Women's World, New Generation, Mladika, Zvoncek, Our Voice, Ljubljana Bell, Gruda, Odmevi Slovanskega sveta, Morning and others. Her first solo collection Some Songs was published in Trieste in 1934. The next Shiny Scams was published in 1966 in Ilirska Bistrica and its supplementary edition in 1983.
The main theme of her poems is misfortune, suffering, death, posthumous life and love. Her poetry is a woman's lyrics.
On the last crossing of the river Reka, on March 18, 1971, she drove into the riverbed and drowned.
All her songs are public available (in slovenian) here.
