Arvo Valton

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Arvo Valton

Arvo Valton (actually Arvo Vallikivi ; born December 14, 1935 in Märjamaa ) is an Estonian writer .

Life

Arvo Valton was born the son of an entrepreneur in North West Estonia. From 1943 to 1949 he attended primary school in Märjamaa ( Rapla County ). With the Soviet occupation of Estonia , he and his parents were deported to Siberia in the Novosibirsk Oblast . He was only allowed to return to the Estonian SSR in 1954 . From 1954 to 1959 Valton studied at the Tallinn Polytechnic Institute ( Estonian Tallinna Polütehniline Instituut ) at the Faculty of Chemistry and Mining. There he completed his studies as a mining engineer.

From 1959 to 1961 Valton worked at the chemical combine in Maardu , North Estonia , and from 1961 to 1968 in a factory for measuring tools in Tallinn . At the same time he did a distance learning course in Moscow to become a screenwriter. He devoted himself more and more to writing. He had already started writing in 1960. In 1965 he joined the Writers' Union of the Estonian SSR , of which he was deputy chairman from 1989 to 1992.

From 1968 to 1975 he worked as a freelancer and lived for a time in Suure Jaani in southern Estonia (1968–1972). He then worked for the Estonian state film company Tallinnfilm . In 1992, shortly after Estonian regained independence, Valton was elected as a member of the Estonian Parliament ( Riigikogu ). In 1995 he resigned as a member of parliament.

writer

Arvo Valton has written numerous short prose, short stories , short stories and novels . In addition, he wrote literary reviews, poetry , aphorisms , travelogues and plays. He also wrote the script for the Estonian cult film Viimne reliikvia (1969) and other scripts. In 1980, the opera was Lend of Eino Tamberg premiered in Tallinn, for Valton the libretto was written. A part of his work that dealt critically with the Soviet Union or was influenced by existentialism , which was not welcomed in the Soviet Union , could only appear after its collapse because of the censorship. Since the 1980s, Valton has denounced environmental degradation, campaigned for Estonian independence and for the rights of the Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia .

Works (selection)

  • Rataste vahel (collection of short stories, 1965)
  • Kaheksa jaapanlannat (1968)
  • Sõnumitooja (collection of short stories, 1972)
  • Õukondlik mäng (collection of short stories, 1972)
  • Pööriöö külaskäik (collection of short stories, 1974)
  • Läbi unemaastike (collection of short stories, 1975)
  • Tee lõpmatuse teise otsa (Roman, 1978; German "Arvid Silbers Weltreise", 1995)
  • Mustamäe armastus (collection of short stories, 1978)
  • Õndsusse kulgev päev (story, 1978; German "Juku, der Dorftrottel", 1992)
  • Ajaprintsess (children's book, 1981)
  • Võõras linnas (collection of short stories, 1981)
  • Zugluft (Stories, 1983; compiled by Marijke Lanius and Imbi Riemann, translated from Estonian and Hungarian by Alexander Baer and Hans Skirecki , spectrum )
  • Arvid Silberi maailmareis ( surrealist novel, 1984)
  • Üksildased ajas ( short stories, two volumes, 1983 and 1985)
  • Masendus ja lootus (novel, 1989)
  • Kogutud teosed (collected works, 1998f.)

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt. History of Estonian Literature . Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 666-669

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 585
personal data
SURNAME Valton, Arvo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vallikivi, Arvo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Märjamaa , Estonia