[5] In high school, he contributed to two newsletters produced in manuscript: Jutranja zarja (The Dawn) and Domače vaje (Home Exercises).

[1] As part of the institute's Palestra cultural association, he gave presentations on Ivan Cankar, Simon Jenko, and Slovenian Expressionism.

[1][6] In 1941, during the German annexation of Upper Carniola, he returned to Radovljica and joined a group of Christian Socialists affiliated with the Liberation Front.

Hribovšek participated in the underground patriotic newsletter Dunajske Domače vaje, under the leadership of Janez Remic, together with other Slovenian literati who were studying at the University of Vienna at the time.

The magazine ceased publication due to the conscription of his colleagues into the army, but Hribovšek devoted himself intensively to editing his pseudonymous collection of manuscript poetry.

At the end of the war, his unit retreated from Kamna Gorica via the Loibl Pass to the camp at Viktring, where he was promoted to officer, and the Home Guard members were disarmed by the British and handed over to Yugoslavia.

[4][8] However, it was also rumored among the Home Guard that he had escaped from prison back to Carinthia, was returning to Yugoslavia to rescue his comrades, and was killed in one such action.

In 1965, Resman sent the manuscript of the collection to Hribovšek's sister in Argentina, and Tine Debeljak published it under the title Pesem naj zapojem.