Enn Uibo
Enn Uibo (born October 25, 1912 in the village of Vana-Kariste, parish Halliste , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire , today Estonia ; † August 31, 1965 in the DubrawLag prison camp in Jawas , Subowa Polyana district , Mordovia ) was an Estonian poet and opponent of the Soviet regime .
life and work
Enn Uibo (until 1938 Ervin Uibo) wrote poetry and prose as a teenager . In 1935, at the age of 22, he published his first collection of poems under the title Kuldkõrte igatsus . His second volume of poetry, Homse nimel , was published three years later .
Already during his time as a conscript Enn Uibo joined the neo-pagan , Estonian national-minded religion of Taarausk ( Taara belief ), which was then developed among intellectual Estonians. In 1938 he married Linda Raidmaa. In October 1943 their only child, daughter Halliki, was born.
During the first Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940/41, Enn Uibo joined the Forest Brothers , the armed resistance against the Soviet regime. During the German occupation (1941–1944) he first worked in the library of the General Staff . He later became an employee of the head of the Estonian Omakaitse ("self-protection"), Arnold Sink . At the same time he published poems and articles in several Estonian newspapers.
In the spring of 1944, Enn Uibo fell out with the National Socialists. He was arrested but released in April 1944. In the autumn of 1944, Enn Uibo actively worked on the restoration of the Estonian state as part of the initiatives of Prime Minister Otto Tief and Rear Admiral Johan Pitka . He is said on the historic hoisting of the Estonian national flag on the tower Pikk Hermann in Tallinn have been involved on September 20 1944th
With the second Soviet occupation of Estonia, Enn Uibo was arrested on November 20, 1944 by the Soviet counter-espionage SMERSCH . A court martial in Leningrad sentenced him to death on February 8, 1945. In March 1945 the sentence was reduced to ten years imprisonment. He spent the sentence in the Norilsk prison camps . From 1953 he wrote again.
Enn Uibo was released in September 1954 after nine years in prison. He first settled in Norilsk. Two years later he was able to return to Estonia. However, he was not allowed to move to Tallinn, so he moved first to Paide and then to Viljandi . There he wrote more poems, which he distributed among his friends.
Because of his sympathy for the 1956 uprising in Hungary , the Soviet security authorities arrested him in April 1957. In July of that year Uibo was sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Supreme Court of the Estonian SSR in camera for anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda. He served his sentence under extreme conditions in various gulags in Mordovia . There he died eight years later in the Dubrawlag political prisoner camp in Jawas , Subowa Polyana district . Enn Uibo was buried in an unnamed grave in Sosnowka .
literature
- Merike Riives: Enn Uibo: Testament. Valik luulet 1930-1965. Tallinn 1995 (= MEMENTO luuleraamat 6, ISBN 9985-814-06-1 )
- Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), p. 524
Web links
- Short biography (by Enn Tarto )
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Uibo, Enn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Uibo, Ervin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian lyric poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 25, 1912 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vana-Kariste village, then Halliste parish , Pärnu district , Livonia Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 31, 1965 |
| Place of death | DubrawLag , Jawas , Subowa Polyana Raion , Mordovia , RSFSR , Soviet Union |