August Kitzberg
August Kitzberg (* December 17 July / December 29, 1855 greg. On the Puldre farm, then the village of Põlde, Laatre parish, Halliste parish in the Pärnu district ; † October 10, 1927 in Tartu ) was an Estonian writer.
Life
August Kitzberg was born into poor conditions. He lived from 1857 to 1881 in the village of Penuja (today the rural municipality of Abja , Viljandi County ), where his brother Jaak Kits was a school teacher. Later both of them moved to the Maie farm in the village of Pöögle (rural community Karksi ), where the Kitzberg Museum is located today.
August Kitzberg worked from 1872 as a village and court clerk in the Viljandi district, from 1894 as an employee in a factory in Latvia and settled in Tartu in 1901 . There he was managing director of the newspaper Postimees and dramaturge at the Vanemuine Theater .
August Kitzberg became involved in the Noor Eesti Movement from 1912 , and became its treasurer after official registration. Kitzberg became the first honorary member of the Estonian Writers' Union, which was founded in 1922 . A bronze monument in Karksi-Nuia by Jaak Soans commemorates him.
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August Kitzberg kept his head above water with translation work in the 1870s. He began his literary career as a writer of comedies and humorous village stories. Funny characters from his rural Mulgimaa region can be found immortalized in his works.
Initially, his plays were intended for amateur theater on local village stages. As a professional theater culture developed in Estonia, Kitzberg also became a demanding playwright. He worked closely with the artistic director Karl Menning , who had founded a professional theater company in the Vanemuine Theater in 1905.
August Kitzberg is considered to be one of the founders of Estonian drama . The tragedy Libahunt (1912) in particular caused a sensation. His second big hit was the drama Kauka jumal 1915.
In his literature, Kitzberg addresses, among other things, material inequality, the arrogance of the powerful and the small and large weaknesses of people. In his works, rural life in Estonia of the time finds the most fitting descriptions.
In addition, Kitzberg wrote some stories, plays for children, memoirs and columnist essays, the latter partly under the pseudonym Tiibuse Jaak .
Private life
August Kitzberg was married twice. His second marriage resulted in a son.
Works (selection)
Dramas
- Punga-Mart ja Uba-Kaarel (1894)
- Sauna Antsu "oma" hobune (1894)
- Püve Peetri "riukad" (1897)
- Veli Henn (1901)
- Räime Reeda 10 copy (1903)
- Rätsep Õhk ja tema õnneloos (1903)
- Hennu Veli (1904)
- Tuulte pöörises (1906)
- Libahunt (1911/12, screened in 1968)
- Kaval-Ants yes Vanapagan (1912)
- Kauka jumal (1915)
- Kosjasõit (1915)
- Enne kukke ja koitu (1919)
- Laurits (1919)
- Onu Zipul (1922)
- Neetud talu (1923)
stories
- Maimu (1889)
- Külajutud (five volumes, 1915–1921)
memoirs
- Vana "tuuletallaja" noorpõlve mälestused (two volumes, 1924/25)
Columns
- Tiibuse Jaak Tiibuse kirjavahetus (two volumes, 1920/1923)
literature
- Villem Alttoa: August Kitzberg. Tallinn 1960
- Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 384-392
Web links
- Short biography (French)
- CV (Estonian)
Remarks
- ↑ to 1863 August Kits
- ↑ Due to insufficient knowledge of the Russian language, Kitzberg was dismissed by the tsarist authorities during the Russification
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The ballet Tiina by the Estonian composer Lydia Auster is based on the work
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kitzberg, August |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tiibuse Jaak |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1855 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Puldre farm, then Põlde village, Laatre parish, Halliste parish , Pärnu county |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 10, 1927 |
| Place of death | Tartu |