August Jakobson

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August Jakobson, ca.1920.

August Jakobson (born September 2, 1904 in Pärnu , † May 23, 1963 in Tallinn , Estonian SSR ) was an Estonian writer and communist .

Life

August Jakobson came from a working class family. He graduated from high school in Pärnu in 1926. He then studied economics at the University of Tartu from 1926 to 1929 and medicine from 1931 to 1935 , but without obtaining a formal degree.

In 1939 Jakobson was elected chairman of the Estonian Writers' Union. During the first Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940/41, Jakobson worked in the editorial department of the newspaper Kommunist and was head of the publishing houses Ilukirjandus und Kunst . Jakobson fled to the Soviet Union before the approaching German Wehrmacht . There he organized the Estonian cultural life in the service of Stalinism .

From 1944 to 1946 and from 1950 to 1954 Jakobson was chairman of the Estonian Soviet Writers' Union ( Eesti Nõukogude Kirjanike Liit ). At the founding meeting of the association in 1943, Jakobson already gave its direction in his speech: "Instead of the previous apolitical professional association, a truly Soviet , active fighting instrument based on Marxist ideology and participating body and soul in socialist construction should be created; instead of the Previously chaotic, comfortable, social problems avoiding group, which had come together only on the basis of professional characteristics, a unified, strong collective was to be formed, which progresses with full awareness on its way and the politics of the party and the Soviet institutions propagates and applies. "

From 1950 to 1958 August Jakobson was Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic .

Literary work

August Jakobson's literary breakthrough came in 1927 with the novel Vaeste-Patuste alev , a naturalistic description of the working class and settlement life of the time. Other novels , short stories , fairy tales , short stories and plays followed . Especially after the Second World War , Jakobson produced numerous stage plays that emphasize the communist class point of view and loyalty to the line . They achieved a high level of awareness throughout the Soviet Union.

Most important works

Novels

  • "Vaeste-Patuste alev" (1927)
  • "Tuhkur hobune" (1928–1933)
  • "Kolme vaeva tea" (1930)
  • "Andruksonide suguvõsa" (novel cycle, 1931–1934)
  • "Vana kaardivägi" (1935)
  • "Metsalise rada" (1936)
  • "Uus inimene" (1938)
  • "Igavesed eestlased" (novel cycle, 1937–1940)

Novel collections

  • "Joonatan Hingemaa eksirännakud" (1930)
  • "Kotkapoeg" (1932)
  • "Reisijad lõppjaamas" (1934)
  • "Reamees Mattias" (1935)
  • "Üksiklased" (1935)
  • "Esimesed meheteod" (1936)
  • "Mälestusi laulvast kuldnokast" (1939)

Spectacles

  • "Viirastused" (1939)
  • "Elu tsitadellis" (1946)
  • "Võitlus rindejooneta" (1947)
  • "Rooste" (1948)
  • "Kaks leeri" (1948)
  • "Meie elu" (1949)
  • "Öö ja päeva piiril" (1950)
  • "Saakalid" (1952)
  • "Kaitseingel Nebraskast" (1953)
  • "Surmemine" (1953)
  • "Vana tamm" (1955)

Short prose

  • "Tules ja veres" (1942)
  • "Hiiglaste tee" (1944)
  • "Sadam udu taga" (1945)
  • "Aovalgus" (1946)
  • "Tulikuum päev" (1949)
  • "Kasvutung" (1949)

Fairy tale anthologies

  • "Ööbik ja vaskuss" (1947)

Web links

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  1. ↑ quoted from: Cornelius Hasselblatt. History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006. ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , p. 528
personal data
SURNAME Jakobson, August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and communist
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Parnu
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 1963
Place of death Tallinn