Felix Kotta

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Felix Kotta (also Feliks , born June 12 . Jul / 25. June  1910 greg. In Tartu ; † 11. October 1963 ) was an Estonian writer, translator and children's author.

Life

Felix Kotta was born the son of a carpenter who emigrated with his family to Siberia in 1913, to the Estonian settlement Jurjev (Jurjeka) in the then Tomsk Governorate , today Kemerovo Oblast . He graduated from school in Bolotnoye , Novosibirsk Oblast , in 1929 and studied at the Institute of History and Linguistics in Leningrad from 1931–1932 . He then spent a year teaching Russian in Tomsk and then an editor in Novosibirsk . From 1934 to 1938 he studied Estonian philology at the Herzen Institute in Leningrad , but then worked as a Russian teacher in Siberia until 1944.

In 1944 Kotta came to Tartu, where he had several shorter positions at the University of Tartu . Mainly, however, he lived in Elva as a freelance writer . He had been a member of the CPSU since 1952 and of the Estonian Writers' Union since 1945 .

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Kotta made his debut in 1926 in the supplement of an Estonian-language newspaper with poetry in Siberia, but his actual productive creative period only began after his return to Estonia. After initial difficulties - a poem that appeared in Postimees was attacked by the party leadership in 1947 as a “serious ideological error” - he published five volumes of poetry from 1948 and became a “consistent advocate of party ideology”. As the analysis showed one of his poems, dominated at Kotta a "black-and-white view of the world in which one's own achievements hailed from the standpoint of the ruling party of view, and the enemy will be cut down." It is clearly in him the influence of Mayakovsky whose poems he also translated into Estonian.

Kotta has had a more lasting influence on Estonian children's literature, where his “dynamic and rhythmic verses” achieved success through “inventive rhymes” and a “humorous aspect”. Some of his popular children's books are still being reissued to this day.

bibliography

Poems

  • Round Luuletused ('attack. Poems'). Tallinn: Ilukirjandus yes art 1948. 94 pp.
  • Kindlal sammul (' steady step'). Tallinn: Eesti Riikik Kirjastus 1950. 114 pp.
  • Vares, vaga linnuke. Valik huumorit ja satiiri ('The crow, a pious bird. Humorous and satirical'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1956. 100 pp.
  • Näojooned. Luuletusi ('facial features. Poems'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1958. 111 pp.
  • Päikesepaiste . ('Sunshine'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1960. 115 pp.

Children's books

  • Räägib Mati ('Mati tells'). Tallinn: Ilukirjandus yes art 1949. 32 pp.
  • Vaat, mis juhtus ('Look what happened'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1951. 13 pp.
  • Kaheksas sügis ('The eighth autumn'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1952. 48 pp.
  • Tublid loomad ('The efficient animals'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1952. 24 pp.
  • Mänguasjad ('toys'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1953. 16 pp.
  • Metsapere laulikud ('The Singers of the Forest Family'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1955. 21 pp.
  • Lumest maja ('The House of Snow'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1955. 17 pp.
  • Hiirejaht ('Mouse Hunt '). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1963. 16 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Helene Siimisker: Näojooned ja arengujooned, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 10/1958, pp. 631–635.
  • Johannes Feldbach: Felix Kotta 50-aastane, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 6/1960, pp. 374–376.
  • Olaf Utt: Juttu Felix Kottaga yes Felix Kottast, in: Looming 6/1960, pp. 938–945.
  • Eduard Ertis: Mõnda Felix Kotta varajasest luuleloomingust (1926–1936), in: Couple saamukest eesti kirjanduse ja rahvaluule uurimise teel IX. Tartu: Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia FR Kreutzwaldi nimeline kirjandusmuuseum 1976, pp. 26-37; German summary: On Felix Kotta's early poetry production (1926–1936), ibid. pp. 234–235.
  • Toomas Haug: Felix Kotta 75, in: Looming 5/1985, p. 711.
  • Aigi Heero: Nõukogulikust agitatsiooni- ja propagandakirjandusest 1940. aastate lõpus - 1950. aastate alguses. Felix Kotta poeem "Kindlal sammul", in: Uurimusi 1940. aastate Eesti kirjandusest. Koostanud Anneli Kõvamees yes Piret Viires. Tallinn: EKSA 2011, pp. 139–153.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, pp. 220-221.
  2. ↑ Anu Raudsepp: Kirjandus ja stalinistlik kultuuripoliitika Eestis, in: Muutuste mehhanismid eesti kirjanduses ja kirjandusteaduses. Tartu: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum 2000, p. 139.
  3. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 220.
  4. ↑ Aigi Heero: Nõukogulikust agitatsiooni- yes propagandakirjandusest 1940. aastate Lopus - 1950. aastate alguses in: Uurimusi 1940. aastate Eesti kirjandusest. Tallinn: EKSA 2011, p. 151.
  5. ↑ Reet crusts: Eesti Lastekirjandus. Tartu: Elmatar 1995, p. 166.
personal data
SURNAME Kotta, Felix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kotta, Feliks
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian-Soviet writer, translator and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1963
Place of death Tartu