Astrid Reinla

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Astrid Reinla (1993)

Astrid Reinla (from 1971 Astrid Kabur ; born March 1, 1948 in Tallinn ; † January 1, 1995 there ) was an Estonian writer .

Life

Reinla went to school in Tallinn from 1955 to 1966 and then worked in a library. From 1969 to 1974 she studied Estonian Philology at the University of Tartu . After graduating, she worked as an editor and proofreader at the publishing house Eesti Raamat and later for the magazine Horisont . Since 1990 she has been a member of the Estonian Writers' Union . She was the daughter of the literary scholar Oskar Kuningas and married to the writer Boris Kabur .

Literary work

Reinla debuted in magazines in 1969 and published her first two books in 1982, a volume of poetry and a collection of short stories. In her poetry, echoes of Betti Alver's early poetry were discovered as well as references to contemporary poetry, for example the cycle of life stories from Harala by Mats Traat . In the short stories, the overemphasis on the loneliness of the contemporary man was emphasized, while at the same time parallels were seen with the two masters of the contemporary grotesque short story - Arvo Valton and Vaino Vahing .

Astrid Reinla then published another volume with short prose and a play as well as five children's books. Of these, Teofrastus deserves special mention, in which the world is viewed from the perspective of a cat. This book was also published in German translation, but practically never made it onto the German market.

A cat also appears regularly in Reinlas' later popular feature pages published under the title The citizen is the stupid . They appeared in the Postimees newspaper in 1993 and 1994 and shed light on the problems of getting used to and getting started with many people in the young Republic of Estonia, which has just regained its independence.

Astrid Reinla was also the initiator and first script writer of the extremely successful Estonian television series Õnne 13 . It started in October 1993 and continues to this day. The script was later continued by Kati Murutar and Teet Kallas , among others, and Andra Teede has been the author since 2014 .

Together with Liisi Ojamaa , Reinla translated Helen Keller's autobiography into Estonian.

bibliography

  • Lihtminevik ('Simple Past'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1982. 52 pp.
  • Inimestega ('With People'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1982. 125 pp.
  • Teofrastus . Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1985. 48 pp.
  • Plekk-katus ('The Tin Roof'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1987. 187 pp.
  • Patu . Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1988. 39 pp.
  • Miikael . Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1989. 141 pp.
  • Pätu laulud ('Pätus Lieder'). Viljandi : Sünnimaa 1992. 32 pp.
  • Lumeelevant. Krooksjalad ('The Snow Elephant. Quack Frogs'). Tallinn: Kupar 1994. 223 pp.
  • Kodanik on loll ('The citizen is the stupid', feature pages ). Tallinn: Tuum 1994, 93 pp.

Secondary literature

  • Õnne Nõmm: Lihtne olevik, in: Looming 4/1983, pp. 568–569.
  • Rein Tootmaa : Üksinduse veidrustamine, in: Looming 6/1983, pp. 837-838.
  • Holger Kaints : Inimestega, II ?, in: Vikerkaar 3/1988, pp. 84–86.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000. p. 460.
  2. ↑ Õnne Nõmm: Lihtne olevik, in: Looming 4/1983, p. 568.
  3. ↑ Rein Tootmaa: Üksinduse veidrustamine, in: Looming 6/1983, p. 838.
  4. ↑ Astrid Reinla: Teofrastus. A cat story. From Estonian by Merle Raid. Tallinn: Perioodika 1989. 52 pp.
  5. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : Estonian literature in German translation. A reception story from the 19th to the 21st century. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2011, p. 222.
  6. ↑ See the entry in the international film file http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0468631/
personal data
SURNAME Reinla, Astrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kabur, Astrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1995
Place of death Tallinn