Mladen Dražetin


Mladen Dražetin was a doctor of social sciences, Serbian intellectual, economist, theatrical creator, poet, writer and philosopher. His father Rada was a courier in the Local Community Office in Mošorin, while his mother Vukica was from Sombor. He left behind works of poetry, prose, drama and philosophy. He was the creator of the Correspondence Theatre, a specific type of theater organization and play, which he conceived and organized in 1974.

Education

He finished Commercial School in 1968 in Novi Sad, Advanced Commercial School in 1972 in Varaždin, and graduated in the Subotica Economic College in 1983.
Dražetin defended his Master thesis "A specificity of origin and activity of The Correspondence Theatre in Novi Sad, with a projection of further perfecting" in 1989 at the College of Drama Arts in Belgrade and PhD in 2004 at the Faculty for Service Business in Novi Sad with thesis Amateurism as a way of man's self-realization through local radio and television stations in Vojvodina.

Career

Dražetin performed various tasks in several working organizations and state administration. He was also employed at Television of Novi Sad and Radio Television of Serbia and also worked as a professor.
Career: worked in "Autovojvodina", in SOUR "Agrovojvodina", where he edited the newspaper with same name, then moved to the City Assembly where he worked as the market inspector and senior market inspector, then in the Television of Novi Sad was the Director of the Service of joint programming activities and Head of TV Cinemateka and editor of Redaction for historiography of the cultural heritage of Vojvodina, and was also editor in "7 TV days". Then he worked as a federal market inspector and the republic market inspector. He also worked as a professor for about ten years in Higher Technical School of Professional Studies in Novi Sad for teaching areas: multimedia I, multimedia II, WEB communications and mass communications. He was also a guest lecturer at the BK University in Belgrade and Faculty of Education in Sombor. He also served as a juror in the High Court in Novi Sad and as an court expert for the evaluation of the capital, damage assessment and calculation of earnings.

Cultural, educational and scientific-research work

Dražetin was the creator of the Correspondence Theatre, a specific type of theatre organization and play, which he conceived and organized in 1974 as the original theatrical movement for spread of elementary theater and ethical-aesthetic culture. He was among the founders of the Drama Art Scene, whose chief executive he was from 1994.
He showed the theatrical performances in the villages, city parks and squares, in companies, as well as in the apartments. TV show of Petar Ljubojev about this project received in 1986 the Grand Prix at the festival in Monte Carlo. Dražetin has directed over 100 theatrical plays and recitals in amateur and professional scenes, within the Correspondence Theatre. He appeared as an actor in theatrical plays and in about ten films.
By his own script, he directed two films of silent burlesque: "Disordered thoughts" and "Humorists from Novi Sad" . He also worked on poetry and has published seven collections of poems.
His social drama "Confession" and experimental comedy "Philosophy" were performed on professional and amateur scenes. He edited the newspaper of amateur theater "Stage" and the editions "Tribune of Poetry" and "Mass culture and art" , all within the publishing activity of The Drama Art Scene and The Correspondence Theatre. He was also a member of the editorial board of the magazine for culture and art titled "Krovovi".
Besides that, he was a literary critic, theorist of theater and television. On television, he was author of more acclaimed shows such as "Health theater", "75 years of Esperanto" and other.
Social drama "Confession" which Dražetin wrote was played in over 50,000 micro-theaters of the Correspondence Theatre around the world, as an educational program.
He wrote a book on ethics, aesthetics and sociology of culture called "Eternal art of the play", which is a result of his 30 years of scientific research and the choice of teaching material from lectures at universities, colleges and high schools, where his lectures from 1996 to 2013 were attended by more than ten thousand students.
Dražetin gave many notable lectures "On the establishment and operation of Correspondence Theatre from Novi Sad, as a universal correspondence system" in several countries - Russia, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Greece, Croatia, Slovenia, Republika Srpska, Macedonia and Montenegro.
He played episodic roles in two local feature films: "The Jews are coming", directed by Prvoslav Marić and "The Hourglass" which is based on a novel of Danilo Kiš.
He was a member of the Association of Writers of Vojvodina and of the Association of Journalists of Serbia.
In 2016, at the literary manifestation "In honor of Sima Cucić" organized by the Banatian cultural center from Novo Miloševo, Dražetin was posthumously awarded with a plaque "Sima Cucić" for the overall contribution to the affirmation of literature for children.
He was included into the Encyclopedia of Novi Sad, The Lexicon of the Artists of Vojvodina, The Directory of Writers for Children, Anthology of the most beautiful songs about love "Great Secret", The Anthology of the New Serbian Poetry for Children and Youth "When the Heart Starts Glittering", Biographical Dictionary of Šajkaška, "The Dictionary of Vojvodina" of Miroslav Antić.
His texts were published in the following publications : "Autovojvodina", "Enciklopedija Novog Sada", "Zlatna greda", "Krovovi", "Lipar", "Luča", "Majdan", "Naftaš", "Naše stvaranje", "Pozornica", "Romologija", "Sveske za istoriju Novog Sada", "Svitak", "Stig", "Studia Ruthenica", "Susreti", "Ulaznica", "Uspenja", "Švetlosc". Dražetin's works and texts have been translated into Esperanto and Rusyn language.

Death

He died in Novi Sad in 2015, and was buried in the cemetery in Ledinci.

Works

Books which Dražetin published during his life:
Dražetin's books published posthumously:
Last Dražetin's work which he completed shortly before his death is a theater piece "Tican's Revolt in 1807: the national drama in three acts", which he dramatized and wrote directing and adjusting his work in accordance to scientific publications of the Historical Institute SANU, as well as in accordance to processed appropriate stories and legends about Tican, which passed from generation to generation.
Publishing and printing of several more Dražetin's unpublished works is in preparation.
Unpublished Dražetin's works: