Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde

This article presents some notes on the curious case of а Bulgarian migrant family and the way their dairy shop influenced the development of the Romanian avant-garde art movement. In the 1990s and 2000s, the National Theatre building in Bucharest housed a fabled pub called Enake’s Dairy Shop, which...

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Main Author: Malamir Spasov
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Language:Bulgarian
Published: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University 2025-01-01
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Online Access:https://journals.umcs.pl/zcm/article/view/17596
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description This article presents some notes on the curious case of а Bulgarian migrant family and the way their dairy shop influenced the development of the Romanian avant-garde art movement. In the 1990s and 2000s, the National Theatre building in Bucharest housed a fabled pub called Enake’s Dairy Shop, which sheltered part of the Romanian artistic underground. The name came from an actual dairy shop that turned into a cornerstone of the Romanian capital’s artistic underground between the World Wars. The original dairy shop was established by a family of Bulgarian peasants, refugees from Western Macedonia, who settled in Bucharest in the 1900s. While working in his father Yanaki (Enake)’s Dairy shop, young Georgi began to write avant-garde poetry under the pseudonym Stephan Roll. Gradually, their dairy shop became a regular meeting place for a large number of young Romanian avant-garde artists in interwar Bucharest and one of the most original literary circles in Romania. Some of the most distinguished editions of the Romanian avant-garde were created there. This name brings together the avant-garde currents in the two countries, mostly through a young avant-garde author like Georgi Dinev / Stephan Roll, for whom there were no borders, both literally and figuratively. Original title in Bulgarian: „Млекарницата на Енаке“ или за Lactobacillus bulgaricus в румънския авангардизъм.
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spelling doaj-art-6bb4d43caf5c4fb18e95c0099e14886f2025-01-14T14:52:52ZbulMaria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityZeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie2449-82972025-01-01145365http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/zcm.2025.14.53-65Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde Malamir Spasov0https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4605-7344Institute of Balkan Studies and Centre of Thracology of the Bulgarian Academy of SciencesThis article presents some notes on the curious case of а Bulgarian migrant family and the way their dairy shop influenced the development of the Romanian avant-garde art movement. In the 1990s and 2000s, the National Theatre building in Bucharest housed a fabled pub called Enake’s Dairy Shop, which sheltered part of the Romanian artistic underground. The name came from an actual dairy shop that turned into a cornerstone of the Romanian capital’s artistic underground between the World Wars. The original dairy shop was established by a family of Bulgarian peasants, refugees from Western Macedonia, who settled in Bucharest in the 1900s. While working in his father Yanaki (Enake)’s Dairy shop, young Georgi began to write avant-garde poetry under the pseudonym Stephan Roll. Gradually, their dairy shop became a regular meeting place for a large number of young Romanian avant-garde artists in interwar Bucharest and one of the most original literary circles in Romania. Some of the most distinguished editions of the Romanian avant-garde were created there. This name brings together the avant-garde currents in the two countries, mostly through a young avant-garde author like Georgi Dinev / Stephan Roll, for whom there were no borders, both literally and figuratively. Original title in Bulgarian: „Млекарницата на Енаке“ или за Lactobacillus bulgaricus в румънския авангардизъм.https://journals.umcs.pl/zcm/article/view/17596enake’s dairy shopbulgarian migrantsbucharestinterwar periodavant-garde currents
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Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde
Zeszyty Cyrylo-Metodiańskie
enake’s dairy shop
bulgarian migrants
bucharest
interwar period
avant-garde currents
title Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde
title_full Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde
title_fullStr Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde
title_full_unstemmed Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde
title_short Enake’s Dairy Shop or About Lactobacillus Bulgaricus in Romanian Avant-Garde
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topic enake’s dairy shop
bulgarian migrants
bucharest
interwar period
avant-garde currents
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