Dražen Janković ( sr-cyr, Дражен Јанковић; 1965 – 9 November 2018), also known by his nickname Drale, was a Serbian musician, composer, writer and actor. He was a band member of Sarajevo-based rock band

Zabranjeno Pušenje Zabranjeno Pušenje () is a Bosnian Rock music, rock band formed in Sarajevo in 1980. The group's musical style primarily consists of a distinctive garage rock sound with Bosnian folk music, folk influences, often featuring innovative production a ...

under pseudonyms Seid Mali Karajlić (or Seid Little Karajlić), and Belgrade-based band The No Smoking Orchestra as Herr Dralle Draugentaller. He was one of the prominent members of the New Primitivism movement in his hometown

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. His older brother is a Serbian musician and actor

Nenad Janković Nenad (; Cyrillic script: Ненад) is a masculine given name of Slavic origin. It is common in countries that speak South Slavic languages, especially in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, and Montenegro. The name is derived from the ...

. As an actor, he has appeared in television series ''

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'' (1989–1991) and '' Složna braća'' (1996), as well as in a documentary film '' Super 8 Stories'' (2001), directed by the award-winning Serbian filmmaker

Emir Kusturica Emir Kusturica ( sr-cyrl, Емир Кустурица, ; born 24 November 1954) is a Serbian film director, screenwriter, actor, film producer and musician. Kusturica has been an active filmmaker since the 1980s. He has competed at the Cannes ...

. Janković was born in

SR Bosnia and Herzegovina The Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Socijalistička Republika Bosna i Hercegovina, Социјалистичка Pепублика Босна и Херцеговина), commonly referred to as Socia ...

, SFR Yugoslavia (nowadays

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) where he finished elementary school and the Second Sarajevo Gymnasium. His father Srđan was a

linguist Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

and a university professor of Oriental sciences at the

University of Sarajevo The University of Sarajevo (Bosnian language, Bosnian, Croatian language, Croatian and Serbian language, Serbian: ''Univerzitet u Sarajevu'' / Sveučilište u Sarajevu / Универзитет у Сарајеву) is a List of universities in Bo ...

's Faculty of Philosophy.

Discography

Albums * ''Opomena 1'' (2006) * ''Objašnjenja'' (2007) * ''Opomena 3'' (2010) Zabranjeno pušenje * '' Das ist Walter'' (1984) * ''

Dok čekaš sabah sa šejtanom ''Dok čekaš sabah sa šejtanom'' () is the second studio album by Yugoslav band Zabranjeno Pušenje released on June 11, 1985. It was released through Jugoton in SFR Yugoslavia. It is the band's first double album. Following the unexpected succ ...

'' (1985) * '' Pozdrav iz zemlje Safari'' (1987)

Filmography

Publications

* ''Privatni semafor: priče, pesme, aforizmi'' (2007) * ''Privatni semafor II'' (2009) * ''Privatni semafor 3: pesme'' (unknown) * ''Privatni semafor 4: pesme'' (2011) * ''Unca unca čudo – Putopis'' (2011) * ''Priča sa ušća Save i Dunava iz Beograda'' (2016)

References

External links

Seid Mali Karajlić Discography
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Drale Discography
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