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August Alle, 1917

August All (born August 19 . Jul / 31 August  1890 greg. In Viljandi , † 8. July 1952 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer .

Life

August Alle was born into the family of a stonemason . He first attended the parish school in Viljandi , then the evening school in Narva . In 1915 he passed the Abitur as an external student in Orjol and began an apprenticeship as a pharmacist , which he soon broke off.

From 1915 to 1918 he studied medicine at the University of Saratov . From 1922 August Alle studied law at the University of Tartu . He did not pass his law exam until 1937. After that he also worked as a freelance lawyer.

literature

After studying medicine, August Alle first worked as a journalist and editor in Estonia before devoting himself entirely to writing. From 1919 he belonged to the Siuru artists' association. In addition, August Alle was successful as a well-known columnist and vicious literary critic . His literary breakthrough came in 1921 with the collection of poems Carmina Barbata .

All of them deliberately wrote scandalously , ironically , sarcastically and satirically . He was a master of the epigram and feature pages. His pointy pen was feared in Estonia. He turned against the rising middle class of the interwar period .

In his works he also processed his experiences in revolutionary Petrograd and in Tartu after the Estonian War of Independence . With his bohemianism , August Alle was the horror of the bourgeoisie and an idol of the youth. He himself led an extravagant lifestyle, which included a duel in 1926, which he certainly survived.

With his poetry, August Alle strongly opposed the fascist tendencies in Europe at the time. The Soviet occupation of Estonia from 1940 onwards also saw positive aspects. August Alle took over the chairmanship of a Soviet commission on August 23, 1940, which compiled four lists of "anti-Soviet" and "anti-communist" books, the possession of which was forbidden and which were to be removed from the libraries. These included works by Sigmund Freud , Rudolf Steiner , Artur Adson , Gustav Suits and Marie Under . 1552 titles are said to have fallen victim to the action.

Tombstone Everything in the Tallinn Forest Cemetery

August Alle was on the board of the Estonian Writers' Union . He was also an editor for various literary magazines. From 1946 until his death he was editor-in-chief of the renowned literary magazine Looming , which was brought into line by the Soviet authorities after 1944 .

Works (selection)

  • Üksinduse saartele (1918)
  • Carmina Barbata (1921)
  • Laul Kleidist helesinisest ja roosast seelikust (1925)
  • Ummiklained (1930)
  • Karmid rütmid (1934)
  • Lilla elevant (1923)
  • Epigrams (1944).

Translations into German

Only a few poems by August Alle are available in German translation. Five poems appeared in an anthology printed in Estonia in 1927, and the author is also represented with one poem in two post-war anthologies.

Web links

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  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt. History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006. ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , pp. 518f.
  2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : Estonian Literature in the German Language 1784-2003. Bibliography of primary and secondary literature. Bremen: Hempen Verlag 2004, p. 28.
  3. ^ Almanac of Estonian Poetry and Art. Edited by Johannes Semper . Tartu: Pallas Verlag 1927, pp. 80-85.
  4. ↑ We're going home. Estonian poetry and prose. Adaptations by Martha v. Dehn-Grubbe. Karlsruhe: Der Karlsruher Bote 1962, p. 26; Manfred Peter Hein (ed.): A spot on the map of Europe. Poems of the Eastern European avant-garde. Zurich: Ammann Verlag 1991, pp. 297–299.
personal data
SURNAME Everyone, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Viljandi
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1952
Place of death Tallinn