Hugo Raudsepp

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Hugo Raudsepp ( N. Triik , 1932)

Hugo Raudsepp (born July 10, 1883 in the village of Vaimastvere, then Laiuse parish , Tartu district , Riga governorate ( Livonia ), today Jõgeva municipality , Estonia ; † September 15, 1952 in Siberia ) was an Estonian writer and playwright .

Life

Viktor Paul Hugo Raudsepp was born the son of a schnapps distiller . He first attended the local village and parish schools, then until 1900 the city school of Tartu . He then worked as an office worker in Rakke and as a small business owner in retail. From 1907 he worked as a literary critic , journalist and columnist for various papers. A theater tour also took him to Berlin in 1913 .

Between 1917 and 1920 he was politically active, among other things as deputy mayor of Viljandi and in the secretariat of the Estonian Constituent Assembly . After that, his political engagement flagged again. From 1920 to 1924 Raudsepp was a literary critic for the newspaper Vaba Maa . In 1924 he fell ill with tuberculosis . A year-long spa stay followed. He then settled down as a freelance writer in Elva and from 1936 in Tartu . After the end of World War II , Raudsepp lived in Tallinn .

In 1950 Raudsepp was declared a "nationalist enemy of the people" in the Estonian SSR because of his literary work and arrested in 1951 by the Soviet rulers. A few months later, he was sentenced to ten years' exile in Siberia and hard labor. In September 1952 he died there during construction work on the Baikal Amur Mainline .

Literary work

Hugo Raudsepp made his debut after the First World War with his short prose anthology Sidemed ja sõlmed (1919). He was best known in Estonia for his twenty plays, which were among the most popular of his time. He often wrote under his pseudonym Milli Mallikas . Raudsepps stage work began with Demobiliseeritud perekonnaisa 1923. The dramas are consistently subtle comedies that also tackle political problems with a satirical wink. Raudsepp's breakthrough on stage came with the play Mikumärdi in 1929, which was also a success in Finland and Latvia . The subsequent play Vedelvorst (1932) was also a box-office hit . His accurate portrayal of village life, often with a good dose of eroticism, is one of the recurring elements of his dramatic work.

In 1941 Hugo Raudsepp's only novel Viimne eurooplane was published , which combines the personal crises of an intellectual with thoughts about the Estonian cultural scene and the crisis of the world.

Works (selection)

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  • "Sidemed ja sõlmed" (short prose, 1919)
  • "Imbi" (novel, 1920)
  • "Kirju rida" (short prose, 1921)
  • "Vested" (I-II, 1921 and 1924)
  • "Euroopa uuemast kirjandusest" (literary studies, 1921)
  • "Ekspressionism" (literary studies, 1922)
  • "Lääne-Euroopa sentimentalism ja haletundeline vool Eesti kirjanduses" (literary studies, 1923)
  • "Demobiliseeritud perekonnaisa" (drama, 1923)
  • "Ameerika Kristus" (Drama, 1926)
  • "Kikerpilli linnapead" (Drama, 1926)
  • "Ristteed" (collection of short stories, 1926)
  • "Sinimandria" (drama, 1927)
  • "Kohtumõistja Simson" (drama, 1927)
  • "Siinai tähistel" (drama, 1928)
  • "Püha Miikaeli selja taga" (Drama, 1928)
  • "Mikumärdi" (drama, 1929)
  • " Mait Metsanurk ja tema aeg" (essayistic monograph, 1929)
  • "Põrunud aru õnnistus" (drama, 1931)
  • "Vedelvorst" (Drama, 1932)
  • "Salongis ja kongis" (Drama, 1933)
  • "Isand Maikello sisustab oma raamatukappi" (Drama, 1934)
  • "Roosad prillid" (Drama, 1934)
  • "Jumala veskid" (short stories, 1936)
  • "Lipud tormis" (drama, 1937)
  • "Mees, kelle käes on trumbid" (Drama, 1938)
  • "Roheline Tarabella" (Drama, 1938)
  • "Mustahamba" (drama, 1939)
  • "Compromise" (Drama, 1940)
  • "Viimne eurooplane" (novel, 1941)
  • "Kivisse raiutud" (collection of short stories, 1942)
  • "Rotid" (drama, 1946)
  • "Tagatipu Tiisenoosen" (Drama, 1946)
  • "Minu esimesed kodud. Mälestused I" (Memoirs, 1947)
  • "Tillereinu peremehed" (Drama, 1948)
  • "Küpsuseksam" (Drama, 1949)
  • "Lasteaed" (drama, 1949)
  • "Vaheliku vapustused" (drama, posthumously 2003)

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature . Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , pp. 496-498
  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: Catastrophe and Depression in the 1930s - George Orwell and Hugo Raudsepp . In: Acta Baltica 33, pp. 213-221

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature, p. 497
personal data
SURNAME Raudsepp, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mallikas, Milli; Raudsepp, Viktor Paul Hugo (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and playwright
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vaimastvere village, then Laiuse
DATE OF DEATH September 15, 1952
Place of death Siberia