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Bojan Štih (18 February 1923[1] – 14 October 1986), was aSloveneliterary critic,stage director, andessayist. He was one of the most influential figures in modern Slovene theatre after 1945.
Štih was born inLjubljana,[1] where he attendedBežigrad High School. DuringWorld War II, he collaborated with theLiberation Front of the Slovenian People. In 1942 he was arrested by theItalian Fascist authorities and sent to theGonars concentration camp. In late August 1942 he escaped from the camp along with a group ofSlovene Communist activists, among whom was also thePartisan leaderFranc Ravbar andBoris Kraigher, who later who became prime minister of theSocialist Republic of Slovenia. Štih actively participated in the Slovene Partisan resistance in theJulian March.
After the end of the war in 1945, he worked as a journalist and editor. In 1957, he received a bachelor's degree inhistory from theUniversity of Ljubljana. The same year, he started working as a director at theDrama Theatre in Ljubljana, where he worked together with the playwright and authorJože Javoršek. In the 1960s, he worked in the majority of theatres in Slovenia, where he introduced contemporary western trends. He was also a prolific essayist.
He died in Ljubljana in 1986 and is buried inŽale Cemetery. Štih Hall (Štihova dvorana) inCankar Hall, the largest cultural and congress centre in Slovenia, was named after him, as was Štih Street (Štihova ulica) in theBežigrad district of Ljubljana.
He was the uncle ofBarbara Brezigar, Slovene jurist and politician and current ChiefPublic Prosecutor of the Republic of Slovenia.
