“Take Alma’s Bile!”
Alma M. Karlin and her homes in Celje through archival material
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Alma M. Karlin, Celje, Thea Gammelin, landladyAbstract
The present article, based on the archival material that has survived and is still known, attempts to answer questions about Alma M. Karlin's homes in Celje: the villa in Zagrad, the birth house on Ljubljanska cesta and the property in Pečovnik. In addition to the archival material that has been preserved, the words written by Alma herself in her works are particularly noteworthy. From these notes we learn Alma's side of the story, why she had to leave her birth house. It acquired the White Elephant Villa in March 1939 under a contract of exchange and sold it in August 1949. She bought the property in Pečovnik in August 1933, sold it to Thea Schreiber Gam(m)elin in 1936 and left it in her will in 1948. However, as a foreign national, Thea had no legal basis to become the owner of the house in Pečovnik. In their search for a solution, they trusted the wrong people and were left without ownership. This led to a years-long court battle, where the court finally ruled in Thea's favour.
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