Hans Luik

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Hans Luik (born March 26, 1927 in Tartu ; † August 13, 2017 ) was an Estonian writer and translator .

Life

Hans Luik attended Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium from 1934 to 1941 and, together with his mother, fell victim to the first major deportation from Estonia , which Joseph Stalin had carried out in June 1941 after the Soviet Union had annexed Estonia in 1940 . His father had been arrested in January 1941. After the war, Hans Luik was able to return from Siberia and take his Abitur in Tartu in 1947. He then studied theater studies in Moscow from 1948 to 1952 at the Russian Academy for Theater Arts . He then moved back to Tallinn , where he has lived as a freelance writer ever since.

In 1987, together with Teet Kallas , Heino Kiik , Jaan Kross , Mats Traat , Arvo Valton and Enn Vetemaa, he founded the publishing house Kupar, which was the first independent Estonian publisher. The publishing house existed until 2003 and, through its publications, helped shape the Singing Revolution in Estonia, as it published a number of previously banned books.

Luik was a member of the Estonian Writers' Union from 1974 . The Estonian writer Viivi Luik was his cousin, the Estonian media entrepreneur Hans H. Luik his son.

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Hans Luik published his first stories in the 1960s and won a prize in the novel competition in 1967 with his novel Far Away from the Spaceport. He continued to write another novel after that, but achieved greater popularity with his plays on contemporary themes. He also wrote popular science books for young people.

He was also (co) writer of scripts; For example, together with Enn Vetemaa, he created the script for the successful film Time to Live, Time to Love (1977) and was involved in Priit Pärn's award-winning short film Auszeit (1984) .

Luik mainly translated from Russian (including Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol , Anton Pawlowitsch Chekhov and Iwan Sergejewitsch Turgenew ) and English (including Ray Bradbury , Vladimir Nabokov and HG Wells ), but also from German (e.g. Karl Mays Winnetou ).

bibliography

  • Inimene võidab surma . Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, 1967 ("Man conquers death")
  • Kõik noored orbiidile . Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, 1967 ("All young people in orbit")
  • Kosmodroomidest ball . Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, 1969 ("Far from the spaceport")
  • Homsed tahed . Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, 1971 ("The Stars of Tomorrow")
  • Keelatud vili . Kupar, Tallinn, 1989 ("Forbidden Fruit")
  • Minu imeline elu 1-3 . s. l .: Kuldsuu 2009–2011 ("My amazing life", 3 volumes)

Literature on the author

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Luik (26. III 1927 - 13. VIII 2017) in memoriam . Obituary in Eesti Ekspress , August 15, 2017, accessed on August 17, 2017 (Estonian).
  2. ↑ Hans Luik: Minu elu imeline I . s. l .: Kuldsuu 2009, p. 470.
  3. ↑ Oskar Kruus, Heino Puhvel (ed.): Eesti kirjanike leksikon . Eesti Raamat, Tallinn, 2000, p. 308.
  4. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York, 2006, pp. 707–708.
  5. ↑ German shown as a decision to live in the GDR in 1978, see Hans Luik in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data
SURNAME Luik, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Tartu
DATE OF DEATH 13th August 2017