Croatia Association of Theatre Critics and Theatre Scholars (; or HDKKT) is a professional, nonprofit organization for Croatian theater scholars and critics.

History The association was founded on 22 October 1975 at its founding assembly in Zagreb and registered into the Civil Association Register on 9 March 1976.

HDKKT is a member of the International Association of Theatre Critics (AICT/IACT) and collaborates with the International Federation for Theatre Research (FITR/IFTR). It was founded with a goal to develop and promote the quality of the profession, cooperation with other similar associations and theatres in Croatia and abroad, and to protect the moral and material interests of its members. The association's structure comprises: Assembly, Executive Committee and President, Supervisory Committee, and Court of Honour. The association was first based at Ilica 42 and later at Amruševa Street 19, in Zagreb. It has about 50 active members and 15 retired, and since 2013 dance critics are also admitted.

The association is funded by Croatia's Ministry of Culture. Shortly after its foundation, HDKKT launched Theatrology Library (Teatrologijska biblioteka) with Nikola Batušić as editor in chief, and from 1979 till 1992 thirty-three titles were published. In 1994 Theatrology Library merged with Library Prolog (Biblioteka Prolog), former CKD, which was inherited by AGM (Zagreb). The new library was named Actor's Booklet Prolog (Glumišna knjižnica Prolog) with an editorial board of Nikola Batušić, Branko Hećimović and Igor Mrduljaš. From 1992 till 1997 the library published eleven books in cooperation with AGM, after which AGM completely took over the publishing activities.

In the 1980s, the association introduced the Award for the Best Play of the Season through a members' survey.

Demeter's Award

Since 2012, HDKKT has awarded the Demeter's Award for Lifetime Achievement. The first one was awarded to one of the founders of HDKKT, president, historian and theatrologist , in 2012; the second wnet to secretary general, president, critic and theatrologist in 2013; and the third went to theatrologist, critic, educator and president of HDKKT . The Demeter Award is awarded on the day of publication of Dimitrija Demeter's critique of the first professional play in Croatian, Juran i Sofija by Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, in the journal Danica ilirska on 13 July 1840, which is considered the beginning of the Croatian theatre criticism.Croatian Association of Theatre Critics and for Theatre Research: Demeter's Award for Lifetime Achievement, 11 July 2014

List of awardees 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 Antonija Bogner Šaban

Managing authority

Executive Committee Sanja Nikčević (president), Alen Biskupović (secretary general), Mira Muhoberac, Antonija Bogner Šaban, Martina Petranović

Supervisory Committee Andrija Tunjić, Goran Ivanišević, Anđela Vidović

Court of Honour Boris Senker, Olga Vujović, Tomislav Kurelec

Former presidents and secretaries general

Presidents (1976–1980), (1980–1982), Marija Grgičević (1982–1984), (1984–1988), (1988–1991), (1991–1993), Antonija Bogner Šaban (1993–2001), (2001–2005), (2005–2010) and Sanja Nikčević (2010 – ).

Secretaries general Giga Gračan (1976–1978), Igor Mrduljaš, Branko Vukšić (1991–1993), (1993–2001), Sanja Nikčević (2001–2010), Ljubica Anđelković (2010–2012), Lidija Zozoli (2012 – 13 June 2014), Alen Biskupović (13 June 2014 – )

Theatre Research Library: List of editions 1. Slavko Batušić , Zagreb, 1979. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Petar Selem 2. Frano Čale , Zagreb, 1979. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Petar Selem 3. Petar Selem , Zagreb, 1979. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Igor Mrduljaš (tajnik) 4. Branko Hećimović , Zagreb, 1979. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Petar Selem 5. Marko Fotez , Zagreb, 1981. ed. Nikola Batušuć, for publisher Branko Hećimović 6. Georgij Paro , Zagreb, 1981. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Branko Hećimović 7. Petar Selem , Zagreb, 1983., ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Marija Grgičević 8. Frano Čale , Zagreb, 1984. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Marija Grgičević 9. Igor Mrduljaš , Zagreb, 1984. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Marija Grgičević 10. Nikola Batušić , Zagreb, 1984. ed. Boris Senker, for publisher Marija Grgičević 11. Tihomil Maštrović , Zagreb, 1985. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 12. Boris Senker , Zagreb, 1985. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Igor Mrduljaš 13. Ivo Hergešić , Zagreb, 1985. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 14. Milutin Cihlar Nehajev , Zagreb, 1986. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 15. Marko Marulić , Zagreb, 1986. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 16. Mani Gotovac , Zagreb, 1986. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 17. Dalibor Foretić , Zagreb, 1986. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 18. Ljudevit Galic , Zagreb, 1987. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 19. Nedjeljko Fabrio , Zagreb, 1987. ed. Nikola Batušić for publisher Boris Senker 20. Čedo Prica , Zagreb, 1987. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 21. Boris Senker , Zagreb, 1987. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio 22. Marijan Matković , Zagreb, 1988. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 23. Eliza Gerner , Zagreb, 1988. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 24. Antonija Bogner Šaban , Zagreb, 1988. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Boris Senker 25. Igor Mrduljaš , Zagreb, 1988. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio 26. Božidar Violić , Zagreb, 1989. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio 27. Mladen Englesfield , Zagreb, 1989. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio 28. Lada Čaće-Feldman , Zagreb, 1989. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio 29. Tomislav Durbešić , Zagreb, 1989. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio 30. Georgij Paro Made in USA, Zagreb, 1990. ed. Nikola Batušić 31. Nikola Vončina , Zagreb, 1990. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio 32. Boris Senker , Zagreb, 1990. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio 33. Ivan Lozica , Zagreb, 1990. ed. Nikola Batušić, for publisher Nedjeljko Fabrio

Glumišna knjižnica Prolog (in cooperation with AGM, Zagreb, only titles including HDKKT as co-publisher) 1. Antonija Bogner Šaban , Zagreb, 1994. 2. Tahir Mujičić, Boris Senker , Zagreb, 1994. 3. Tomislav Bakarić , Zagreb, 1994. 4. Igor Mrduljaš Ad hoc cabaret, Zagreb, 1995. 5. Nikola Vončina , Zagreb, 1995. 6. Ivan Kušan , Zagreb, 1995. 7. Branko Hećimović , AGM, Zagreb, 1995. 8. Antonija Bogner Šaban , Zagreb, 1997. 9. Igor Mrduljaš , Zagreb, 1997. ed. Bože Ćović 10. Cecily Berry , Zagreb, 1997. 11. Tomislav Bakarić , Zagreb, 1997.

References

External links Official web page Associations Register Republic of Croatia