Anton Vaarandi

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Anton Vahtmann

Anton Vaarandi (until 1940 Anton Vahtmann , born August 30, jul. / 12. September  1901 greg. In Rapla ; † 28. September 1979 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer, journalist and politician.

Life

Anton Vaarandi went to school in Rapla until 1917 and graduated from Tallinn Evening High School in 1921. In 1922 he joined the Communist Party of Estonia and at the same time began studying philology at the University of Tartu . Here he also heard lectures by Gustav Suits, among other things . In 1924, however, he was imprisoned for his political activities. He spent the following six years in prison, after his release in 1931 he went to the Soviet Union and lived first in Moscow , later in Leningrad , where he worked for an Estonian publishing house.

In 1933 he was sent by the Estonian section of the Comintern to Scandinavia, where he published Estonian communist newspapers. He also studied from 1937 to 1940 at the University of Oslo . After the occupation of Norway by Hitler's Germany, he went back to Estonia, where, following the Sovietization of Estonia in Tallinn, he took over the editing of the cultural newspaper Sirp ja Vasar (" Hammer und Sichel "). After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, however, he was evacuated to the Soviet hinterland, where he published Estonian newspapers in the enclosed city during the Leningrad blockade .

After the war he was the only Estonian observer to take part in the Nuremberg Trial . He then worked for a few years in politics and from 1951 at the literary magazine Looming , from 1960 to 1968 as its editor-in-chief. It was not least this activity that earned him the name of the “Patriarch of Soviet Estonian Journalism”.

Anton Vaarandi was briefly married to the poet Debora Vaarandi .

Awards

bibliography

  • Päästame neegertöölised dollarkuningate elektritoolilt ('Let's save the black workers from the electric chair of the dollar kings'). Leningrad: Külvaja 1932. 28 pp.
  • Kild killu kõrvale ('splinter for splinter'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1975. 340 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Paul Kuusberg : Ühest väärt toimetajast, in: Looming 9/1971, pp. 1379-1387.
  • Aksel Tamm : Anton Vaarandi, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 12/1979, pp. 756–757.
  • Helene Johani: Anton Vaarandi kirju 1920.-1930-ndaist aastaist, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 3/1981, pp. 161–172.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Kuusberg: Ühest väärt toimetajast, in: Looming 9/1971, p. 1381.
  2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 527.
  3. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 635-636.
  4. ^ Aksel Tamm: Anton Vaarandi, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 12/1979, p. 756.
personal data
SURNAME Vaarandi, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vahtmann, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian literary scholar and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Rapla
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1979
Place of death Tallinn