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Edgar Sein (pseudonyms Edgar Hiiesaar , Madis Präu , Cactus , * February 21 July / March 5,  1908 greg. In Kärdla ; † June 7 or after June 20, 1941 ) was an Estonian journalist and writer .

Life

His went to elementary school in Tallinn, which he left in 1922 to go to a business school. There he came into indirect contact with Estonian communists living in Leningrad , as a result of which he was involved in the attempted communist coup on December 1, 1924, without his knowledge , as he was assigned to guard a building. He was arrested at the end of December and sentenced to three years' imprisonment on May 28, 1925, from which he was released early in late 1926. He then got by with odd jobs and wrote for several newspapers.

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After the Sovietization of Estonia in 1940, he was targeted by the new rulers and was arrested in December 1940. He was sentenced to death on April 15, but the exact time of death is unclear.

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Edgar Sein has written a single novel, which he published in 1934 under the pseudonym Edgar Hiiesaar. It went down in Estonian literary history because immediately after its extradition "because of its supposedly harmful influence on young people and the danger to the state order, it was [] quickly collected again, partly directly from the printer, partly from the book trade, with only a few copies could be saved for academic libraries. ”The background to this is the authoritarian government of Konstantin Päts and Johan Laidoner , under which censorship was reintroduced in Estonia.

In terms of content, it is a social novel as it was written in the interwar period in Estonia by Leida Kibuvits , Enn Kippel , Richard Roht and Agnes Taar . The main character is a journalist who falls in love with a beautiful woman who in turn enters into several connections, including with a rich businessman, whom she also marries at the end of the novel, deliberately leaving open whether she is merely taking advantage of the businessman or actually taking advantage of him is inclined to. She also has a number of other relationships, the most noticeable of which is the lesbian relationship, which was unusually openly described for the time. However, it was by no means the cause of the intervention of the censorship, which was more generally bothered by the lack of morality or the decadent life depicted. It is possible that the restrained social criticism - scuffles between business bosses and politics - was a reason for the interference from above.

bibliography

  • Purjus väärjumalad (Märatseja ja kokott) ('The drunken idols [The madman and the cocotte]'). Tallinn: Joh. Paurmanni kirjastus 1934. 154 pp.
  • [Reprint] Purjus väärjumalad (Märatseja ja kokott) . Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2013. 158 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Liivi Uuet: Edgar Sein ja purjus väärjumalad, in: Tuna 2/2000, pp. 90–94.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Liivi Uuet: Edgar Sein ja purjus väärjumalad, in: Edgar Sein: Purjus väärjumalad (Märatseja ja kokott) . Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2013, p. 155 p.
  2. ↑ Liivi Uuet: Edgar Sein ja purjus väärjumalad, in: Tuna 2/2000, pp. 93-94.
  3. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 502.
  4. ↑ Liivi Uuet: Edgar Sein ja purjus väärjumalad, in: Edgar Sein: Purjus väärjumalad (Märatseja ja kokott) . Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2013, p. 155 p.
personal data
SURNAME Be, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiiesaar, Edgar; Präu, Madis; Cactus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Kärdla
DATE OF DEATH June 7, 1941