Ants Saar

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Ants Saar (born November 12, 1920 in Pahuvere, rural community Tarvastu , † November 10, 1989 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer and party official.

Life

Ants Saar graduated from the grammar school in Viljandi in 1940 and after the Soviet annexation in June 1940 was involved in the Stalinist restructuring of society. In 1943 he became a member of the CPSU and until 1946 he served in the Red Army . After the war he was an art inspector in Tallinn and an editor for various newspapers and magazines. From 1948 to 1950 he took distance learning courses at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow , where he then attended the party college of the CPSU from 1950 to 1953 . From 1961 to 1965 he was editor-in-chief at Tallinnfilm , then a. a. Head of the Cultural Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Estonia (EKP) and editor-in-chief of the Russian-language magazine Tallinn . In all of these positions he “represented the ideological line of the EKP, which made him one of the most consistent Sovietizers of Estonian cultural life.”

Saar also wrote screenplays and had been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 1949 .

plant

Saar made his debut in periodicals after the war and did not publish his first book until the thaw , without, however, differing from the strict party line that had prevailed until then. His books are consistently written in a factual style and realistic documentary prose that does not reach the level that comparable subjects dealing with authors such as Vladimir Beekman , Paul Kuusberg , Juhan Peegel or Ülo Tuulik have mastered, as has already been pointed out by contemporary critics.

Translations

Saar has books in Russian and Lithuanian, and some of his stories have also been translated into other languages. There is only one story in German that remains a single bibliographic record:

  • Side by side . Translated by Viktor Sepp, in: Estonian short stories. Selected by Endel Sõgel . Tallinn: Perioodika 1979, pp. 331-347.

bibliography

  • Inimene otsis õnne ('A person sought his happiness'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1958. 216 pp.
  • Ebatavalized kohtumised ('unusual encounters'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1968. 104 pp.
  • Nõiutud ring. Jutustusi ('The bewitched circle. Stories'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1969. 109 pp.
  • Vaikne suvi vaikses linnas ('A quiet summer in a quiet city'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1971. 79 pp.
  • Repliigid commentsidega ('replicas with comments'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1976. 168 pp.
  • Ühe komandeeringu aruanne ('report of a business trip'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1980. 352 pp.
  • Selgus saabus enne südaööd ('Clarity came before midnight'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1983. 144 pp.
  • Killud suurest mosaiigist ('splinters from a large mosaic'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1986. 190 pp.
  • Peatused teel ('way stations'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1986. 312 pp.

Literature on the author

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 494.
  2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 585.
  3. ↑ Maimu Berg: Publitsisti belletristika, in: Looming 6/1984, p. 843.
  4. ↑ Cf. Cornelius Hasselblatt : Estonian literature in German translation. A reception story from the 19th to the 21st century. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2011, p. 224.
personal data
SURNAME Saar, Ants
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian prose writer and party official
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Pahuvere, Tarvastu rural parish
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 1989
Place of death Tallinn