Left to right: Edvard Kocbek, Bogomil Hrovat, Slavko Grum, Anton Ocvirk, Josip Vidmar, Vladimir BartolĪfter graduating from the lower high school in Ptuj, he enrolled in the classical gymnasium in Maribor he was the first generation of students who took their courses entirely in Slovene (before that, courses were still partially taught in German). Kocbek (left) with a group of young Slovenian writers in Ljubljana, 1925. During the same period, he became active in the Catholic athletic club Orel. He also developed an early passion for French language and culture. Sovre was the first to discover Kocbek's literary talent and encourage him to write and to participate in the dramatic circle. His Slovene language teacher was Anton Sovre, the most prominent classical philologist and translator from Greek in Slovenia between the two world wars. During his stay in Ptuj, he befriended the later editor and priest Stanko Cajnkar and dramatist Ivan Mrak. He later switched to the Slovene language high school in Ptuj. He attended the German-language high school in Maribor, where he witnessed with enthusiasm the takeover of the town by the Slovene volunteers led by general Rudolf Maister.
The couple moved to Sveti Jurij, where Valentin Kocbek worked as an organist in the local Roman Catholic church. ) area, while his mother Matilda, née Plohl was from the neighboring village of Sveti Tomaž in the Prlekija Hills.
His father Valentin Kocbek was originally from the nearby Slovene Hills (Slovene language: Slovenske gorice Kocbek was born in the village of Sveti Jurij ob Ščavnici in the Duchy of Styria, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, now in Slovenia.
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