Войнишкото фронтово творчество в българската армия по време на Първата световна война
The Military Front Line Art in the Bulgarian Army during World War I

Summary/Abstract: The article describes one phenomenon that has not been researched before and which gains wide currency during Bulgaria’s wars for national unification – the military front line art. With its first steps during the Balkan war of 1912–1913, during World War I this creative impulse widely spreads throughout all of the Bulgarian front line armies.The author pays attention to a lot of different types of military art and military initiative, given life to through the assembling of front line theatrical, musical, choral, dance and other teams, and the issue of front line military newspapers, and organizing regimental libraries and literary readings, etc. The main accent though is on the unique idea without any equivalent in the history – the worship of the Bulgarian soldier, who during the lull at the front line starts creating different art objects or just everyday objects, using as raw material the assembled at the front line shell casings from bullets and shells, barrels of guns, machine guns, mines, grenades, helmets and drilled flasks, boxes of ammunition and other “gifts” from the enemy.The military art is presented in three main points: 1) as an educational meaning; 2) as a part of the big charity project for aiding the military orphans and for raising funds for building monuments for honoring the fallen of the war comrades; 3) as a manifestation of the creative genius of the ordinary Bulgarian soldier.

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