Series:CEEOL COLLECTION related to ALBANIA

Albanien. Das Land der Skipetaren

Author(s): Hugo Bernatzik / Language(s): German

If it were to my heart, I would begin this book with the words: It is untrue that Albania is a country full of robbers and dangers, ruled by an operetta king under the lictor's ax of the mighty Mediterranean, that it looks somehow like those Caucasian principalities that American film-kitsch wants to make us believe as the setting for the ever popular court intrigues. It is untrue that the Skipetarian population is divided into two classes, the urban proletariat of the intelligentsia, and all the rest of the rest, who scowl like astrologers in illustrated advertisements and handle the rifle with habitual determination. It is also untrue that forests and swamps are literally teeming with rare game, which European travel hunters, who are immortalized in the picture with their slain lions, could offer a welcome and easy change. So much is untrue that is being spread about this strange country and that is being used in Western ideas. TRUE IS MUCH MORE ... (this, the author is offering in his book)

Die Albanesen und die Großmächte

Author(s): Vladan Đorđević / Language(s): German

At the end of 1912, the Kingdom of Serbia occupied most of the Albanian-populated territory to the Adriatic coast. The army of Montenegro was present around Shkodër. During the attempt to annex the lands, Serbian and Montenegrin armies committed numerous crimes against the local Albanian population. (Wikipedia). The author, nevertheless, starts his book with the sentence: „The appearance and establishment of the victorious Serb armies on the east coast of the Adriatic worked miracles.“. The author (former Serbian Prime-Minister from 1897 to 1900) makes the attempt to add with this book to the „military establishment“ of the Serbian appearance in the Albanian lands a „political establishment“ oft he Serbian interests in conflict with both the Italian and the Austrian interests in the region.

Lebenserinnerungen Band I

Author(s): Eqrem Bey Vlora / Language(s): German

Those are the 2 volumes memoirs of the son of an Albanian beylik family of landowners. Unless Ahmet Muhtar Zogolli (later King Zogu) wouldn’t have been so successful in his political strategies and ambitions since 1912, Eqrem Bey Vlora may have been the favourite candidate for the throne of an Albanian kingdom. In his memoirs he tells an Albanian-European biography of the first half of the 20 century, between Vlora, Istanbul, Italy, Bavaria, Austria… always with a patriotic look to his homeland in the Balkans.

Lebenserinnerungen Band II

Author(s): Eqrem Bey Vlora / Language(s): German

Those are the 2 volumes memoirs of the son of an Albanian beylik family of landowners. Unless Ahmet Muhtar Zogolli (later King Zogu) wouldn’t have been so successful in his political strategies and ambitions since 1912, Eqrem Bey Vlora may have been the favourite candidate for the throne of an Albanian kingdom. In his memoirs he tells an Albanian-European biography of the first half of the 20 century, between Vlora, Istanbul, Italy, Bavaria, Austria… always with a patriotic look to his homeland in the Balkans.

Möge der revolutionäre Sturm mächtig losbrechen!

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German

The anonymously published text (first published in Albanian in the issue of May 17, 1968 of the journal »Zeri i Popullit«) represents both a key-text and a round-up of the Albanian position towards the Soviet Union and its polics after Enver Hoxha's turn towards China and Maoist positions. The German edition printed in Tirana has been published in ALbania - probably for West-German Maoist-Leftists travelling to Albania in this era.

Rede auf der Ersten Tagung der VI. Legislaturperiode der Volksversammlung der Volksrepublik Albanien

Author(s): Mehmet Shehu / Language(s): German

Mehmet Shehu delivered this speech in his capacity as President of the Council of Ministers in 1966. in its form it is a typical statement of accounts, of the achievements and progresses made - together with prospects and imperatives concerning the nex steps of development in all areas of political, iderological, industrial and social reality of the Albanian society.

Skutari und die nordalbanische Küstenebene

Author(s): Theodor A. Ippen / Language(s): German

118These notices are based on a seven year long sojourn from 1897 to 1903 in Scutari and on frequent, longer-lasting excursions, mostly dedicated to hunting into the wide flat land that borders the Adriatic Sea up to to the mountain ranges, as the last offshoot of which the cape Rodoni cuts into the sea. In the description I follow the most natural and historical burglary routes to Scutari and then follow the north-south sequence. // The author has written these travelogues during his mandate as General Consul oft he Habsburg Empire in Sarajevo.

Sons of the Eagle

Author(s): Julian Amery / Language(s): English

The author has been sent to Albania as Officer of the British Army. His task: Try to settle down the conflict between Enver Hodsha communist partisans and North-Albanian royalist partisans for a joined fight of the German Wehrmacht-forces in Albania. After the war he wrote this report, describing mainly the North-ALbanian activities, where his contacts had been much stronger.

State of the Environment Report 1997 – 1998

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): English

The Burden of the Balkans

Author(s): Edith Durham / Language(s): English

At the end of 1903, the British traveller and writer Edith Durham (1863-1944) departed for a five-month stay in the Balkans to take part in humanitarian work on behalf of the Macedonian Relief Committee. This journey and the appalling situation in the rebellious region are the focus of her book „The Burden of the Balkans“ (published initially in London in 1905). It also includes an account of her first lengthy expedition, on horseback and on foot, through the wilds of southern and central Albania.With the many dashes of irony and humour, at which Edith Durham was a master, „The Burden of the Balkans“ is a work that can still be savoured by all.

Wer ist für die Verbrechen des Rassenmordes in Kosovo verantwortlich?

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): German

First published in Albanian in the journal „Zëri i Popullit“ of August 2, 1966. The text is an anti-Titoist pamphlet, published in German laguange for (probably) West-German tourists sympatisants with Maoist Albania