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Interesting things about Gjuric, like when she started to write poems, about her beginnings as an actress on film…

* Why Gjurić, not Đurić?

(Gjurići ̶ Cernik, 18th c.)
In the second list and in the books of the parish of Franciscan, in Cernik, Đurići are mentioned for the first time in 1760, as Gjurich. How did Slavonia in the early 18th c. settling with the Catholic population from Bosnia, the assumption is that Đurić / Jurić came in that wave, which the Friars, as well as other surnames, write in the Latin letter Gyurich. Gjurići came to Varaždin on the eve of World War II. Djurić’s transition to Čakovec also came from this lineage.
Otherwise, the origin of the (surname) name Gjurić (Đurić) comes from the male name Đuro + the deminitive extension of IĆ, which means Đura’s son.
The Gjurić’s allegedly originate in Old Herzegovina, from the Žabljak Mountain (present-day Montenegro), from the noble lineage of Radulović. In various migrations of Serbs, they came to the Military Krajina (present-day Croatia) and became Catholics in the protracted process of destruction. Another part of the family received Islam in the territory of Bosnia, and one part still remains Orthodox (of which the origin of Bishop Gregory of Zahumo – Herzegovina).

* Bishop in the family of Stanka Gjurić: Alojzije Mišić’s parents were Mate Mišić and Marija (maiden name Cigić). Alojzije had two sisters, Marija and Persa. Marija married Ivan Gjurić (and had four children with him: Andrija – Stanka’s grandfather, Ljudevit, Viktorija and Antun), so Alojzije Mišić was brother of Stanka’s great-grandmother.
Family tree

* First time in film: After famous Croatian film director Rajko Grlić saw Stanka’s interview and photographs in newspaper, he invited her to audition for his film ‘Đavolji raj’ (‘That summer of White Roses’) and she got the role of singer White Rose. She starred alongside excellent British actors such as Rod Steiger, Alun Armstrong, Tom Conti, Geoffrey Whitehead and many others.

* First poem: Gjuric began writing poetry as a nine-year.  

* First dog: Her first dog was called Hooper, after the American series ‘Hooperman’ from 1987. The name is choosen by Stanka’s dad, because he fell in love with the dog of the main character Harry Hooperman.

* Hooper as actor: Her dog Hooper starred in her first, award-winning film on the topic of landmines, ‘Ubojite misli’, 2006.

*Writing a diary: She started to write a public diary in her former website in early 1996, which (the web site) at the time was rarity in ex Yugoslavia, so we can say that with the public diary revelations Gjurić was the forerunner in publishing something that today we call blog.

* Theatrical acting: As a teenager she was a leading part of the theater group from Čakovec, named ‘Pinklec’ in which she made her first acting steps.

* Marriage: Even as a little girl she decided that she would never marry because it is to important for her free artistic creativity.

*  Italian book: In 2018, Stanka found out quite by accident that she had a book published in Italy back in 1994, in Italian. It is about the book ‘The Locksmith’s Dream’ published in 1992 in Zagreb. She did not give the book to anyone for translation, and yet it happened that it was translated and even published. She will probably never find out how it happened, who decided to translate her book and paid for the printing without letting her know.