Education
2011 Veterinary Faculty Ljubljana (Doctor of Veterinary Medicine)
2003 Gimnazija Bežigrad, Ljubljana.
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Theodor Illek
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Illek is a doctor in veterinarian medicine by education. Since 2007, he has been presenting his work both in Slovenia and abroad, namely in Russia, France, Germany, Israel, Austria, the Czechoslovakian Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, as the author of independent and group experimental projects implemented in the framework of a contemporary art society called Aggressive. Illek"s poetry is published in the most notable Slovenian (Nova revija, Sodobnost, Literatura, Dialogi, Poetikon, Lirikon, Mentor etc) and foreign magazines (Le Rouge sang, Rukopisi 32 (Belgrade, Serbia) Van kutije – an anthology of modern poetry (Podgorica.
Montenegro), Republika poezije (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Euroorientacije (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), DeZopilant (France)).
His first work of poetry, called Sinapse, for which he received a scholarship from a fund for gifted high-school and university students, was published in 2003. Illek lives and works in Vienna.
2011 Where is God?, Galery Tir, Nova Gorica 2010 Moustrap II, IRIU Institut, Ljubljana 2010 Mobile Mosque, Gallery Studio8, Ljubljana 2009 Acute art, Mala Gallery, Ljubljana 2009 Südbahnhof Poesie, Railway station, Vienna 2008 Desperance, Concentration camp, Goli Otok 2008 Foreign Whom the Phone Rings? International art festival Ana desetnica, Ljubljana 2007 A Poet in Paris, Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana 2007 Equivalentis, Modern Gallery, Ljubljana 2009 The birth of poetry, European Slam poetry festival, Berlin 2009 Stone on Stone, Concentration camp, Goli Otok 2008 General 80 Kolovrat, Ljubljana 2008 How to destroy a gallery, Son:Da, Maribor 2007 Najin princ, David Luzar"s film, Kamnik 2005 Jutro 1, Memorial park, Ljubljana 2004 Premik, Dance Ljubljana, Ljubljana Grants and
Achievements
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2010 First prize for poetry on international poetry competition "Sledi - Tracce" Trieste, Italy 2010 First prize for the collection of poetry New York on Ekslibris publishing house competition 2009 Nomination for Herberstein /Lirikon gold for best contemporary translation of poetry into Slovenian (Breadfruit) 2008 Chosen between 21 best Slovenian poets by poetry magazine Lirikon 2004 Stipendium for Poetry collection Sinapse from found for talented students of municipality Domžale.
