Tragovi prošlosti Vilme Vukelić u emancipaciji žena na slavenskom jugu
Traces of the Past in the Emancipation of Women in the Slavic South

Summary/Abstract: In her personal memoirs Traces of the past, Vilma Vukelić talks like a pioneer about the emancipation of women and the need for emancipation from the golden cage of civilian conventions. In her memoirs, the family genesis of Jewish part of her family is followed. Afterwards, relevant events and persons who dominated in Osijek at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century are described. Some of the themes are: family, nutrition and habitation, childhood and youth, work and free time, festivals and customs, diseases, emotions, and so on. Vilma Vukelić had a dynamic life: after 10 Hungarian years (Budapest and Pecs), followed by studying in Jena and Munich, she spent the interwar period in Zagreb, but for a longer period of time she was in Paris and Berlin. It is a historical paradox that Osijek had more authors who wrote in German, and it was the interwar period when German cultural identity quickly went off. These authors were primarily women: Vilma Vukelić, Leopoldine Rott/Enid Rott, Mathilde Hengl. Some of the authors also wrote in Croatian: Josipa Glembay, Jagoda Truhelka. Unusual oasis of strong female writing, which was led by Vilma Vukelić, represents very significant place in the emancipation of women in the Slavic South. It will later on be continued by Jagoda Truhelka, who personally and with her family marked the territory of Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

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