Today, April 19th, Universitat de València pays a tribute to Alejandra Soler, who was a pioneer in the formation of the Federación Universitaria Escolar (FUE) during the Spanish Second Republic. The event is taking place in the Universitat’s Rector Peset hall of residence (Plaza Forn de Sant Nicolau, 4. Valencia) at 19:00.
Alejandra Soler is participating in the tribute, along with other figures like Antonio Ariño, Vice-principal for Culture, Salvador Albiñana, director of the hall of residence, Dolores Sánchez Durá, chairwoman of FEIS, and Juan Marín, member of FUE. The music piece Alejandra, is being premiered during the event by the chamber group Marxant.
Alejandra Soler was born in Valencia in 1913. She first studied in the former Institución para Enseñanza de la Mujer and then at Instituto Luis Vives, where she introduced herself in the association Federación Universitaria Escolar. FUE was a student association that fought about the updating in teaching and took place in the student riots during the Primo de Rivera’s dicatatorship.
She joined the communist party in 1935 as a result of the right-wing Government’s repression -due to the Asturian mining uprising-, and she got her degree in Philosophy and Literature a year later.
In 1939, she went into exile to USSR. She came back to Madrid in 1971, and after six years she finally returned to Valencia.
Last update: 19 de april de 2012 08:39.
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