Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Ferdinand and his wife with a lying in state aboard SMS "Viribus Unitis". On Sunday, 28 June 1914, at about 10:45 am, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The perpetrator was 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized and armed by the Black Hand. Earlier in the day, the couple had been attacked by Nedeljko Čabrinović, who had thrown a grenade at their car. However, the bomb detonated behind them, injuring the occupants in the following car. On
This Grave Is Too Small for Me and another went to Sarajevo-based actor Ermin Bravo, for best stage performance. This Grave Is Too Small for Me This Grave Is Too Small for Me (Serbian: Mali mi je ovaj grob, alternatively given translations such as This Tomb Is Too Small) is a dramatic stage production, written by Serbian playwright Biljana Srbljanović, that focuses on assassin Gavrilo Princip and his associates in the weeks leading up to Princip's murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914. The assassination played a major role in world events and moved things towards the breakout of World War I. As a historically-based work adapting