Herman Sergo

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Herman Sergo (born September 18 July / October 1,  1911 greg. In the village of Jausa , today the rural community Hiiumaa , Estonia ; † September 28, 1989 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer.

Life

Herman Sergo was born on the second largest Estonian island, Hiiumaa (German Dagö ). In his youth he went to sea as a sailor and helmsman. In 1941 he completed his studies as an ocean captain at the Tallinn Maritime School. During World War II , he served in the Soviet Red Army from 1942 to 1945 .

After the war Sergo was employed as a pilot in Leningrad from 1945 to 1948 . He then worked from 1948 to 1966 in a high position at the Tallinn commercial port. From 1948 to 1955 he taught at the fishing pilot plant in the Estonian capital.

Literary work

Hermann Sergo has written numerous works of fiction in which the sea plays a major role. Seafarers and coastal residents are the focus of his stories and novels. They often reflect personal experiences, such as the story Meri kutsub (1960) and the short story book Kui ma alles veel noor olin (1980). The novel Põgenike laev (1966) deals for the first time with the flight of the Estonian coastal inhabitants in 1944 from the Soviet occupation of Estonia.

1984 was published in three volumes Sergos Roman Näkimadalad . The title is derived from the shoal of the same name (German Neckmans-Grund ) north-northwest of the island of Hiiumaa. Sergo describes the tragic fate of the Estonian Swedes in the 18th century in the village of Reigi on the island of Hiiumaa, who eventually lose their freedom and are deported to southern Ukraine on the orders of the Russian tsarina. The novel begins with the Russian conquest of Swedish Estonia in 1710. Sergo received the Johan Smuul Prize for this the following year . In 1989 the book was made into a film.

The novel Randröövel deals with the life of the devious Baltic German nobleman Otto Reinhold Ludwig von Ungern-Sternberg (1744–1811). In addition, Sergo published the adventure novel Vihavald (1970), set in the 14th century . Further works are the novel Rukkirahu (1990) and the short story volumes Lootsitoa jutud (1965) and Kauge tule kuma (1975).

In 1992 his memoirs appeared posthumously under the title Viis aastat võõra nime all .

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  1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.estlit.ee
  2. ↑ Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 472
personal data
SURNAME Sergo, Herman
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sergo, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Jausa village , today the rural community of Hiiumaa , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1989
Place of death Tallinn