Ieva Simonaitytė

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Ieva Simonaitytė's grave in Vilnius

Ieva Simonaitytė (actually: Eva Simoneit ; born January 23, 1897 in Wannaggen (East Prussia), † August 27, 1978 in Vilnius ) was a Lithuanian writer.

Life

Ieva Simonaitytė was born in Wannaggen as the illegitimate daughter of the farmer Jurgis Stubra, with whom her mother Etme Simonaite worked. She had tuberculosis from the age of five . Because of this, she could not go to school and was homeschooled by her mother. Between 1912 and 1914 she was healed during a hospital stay in Angerburg and has since been active in the Lithuanian cultural scene.

In 1921 she moved to Memel ( Klaipėda ), where she worked as a typist for various newspapers. She initially published some literary works in newspapers, while from 1924 she worked on her first major novel. It appeared in 1935; in the family chronicle Aukštujų Šimonių likimas she criticized, among other things, the "Germanization" of her home region. After receiving the Lithuanian State Prize for Literature for the book, she devoted herself entirely to writing. More novels and a few short stories followed.

In 1939 she was in Switzerland for therapy. In the same year she moved from the Klaipėda district to Kaunas , because her home territory was re- annexed to the German Reich on March 23, 1939 , and took on Lithuanian citizenship. From 1963 she lived in Vilnius. In 1967 she was awarded the title of " Folk Writer of the Lithuanian SSR ".

Commemoration

  • After her death at the age of 81 in 1978, her summer home in Priekulė was converted into a museum in 1984 , the Ievos Simonaitytės Memorialinis Muziejus .
  • The Ieva Simonaitytė Literature Prize ( Ievos Simonaitytės literatūrinė premija ), which the city of Klaipėda has been awarding since 1987, was named after her.
  • The Klaipėda City and County Library bears her name.

Works

  • Aukštujų Šimonių likimas , novel, 1935
  • Pavasarių audra , short story, 1938
  • Vilius Karalius , Roman, 1939, 1956
  • Be tėvo , Roman, 1941
  • Apysakos , short stories, 1948
  • Pikčiurnienė , Roman, 1953
  • O buvo taip , autobiography, 1960
  • Ne ta pastogė , autobiography, 1962
  • Nebaigta knyga , autobiography, 1965
  • Paskutinė Kūnėlio kelionė , short stories, 1971

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel E. Walter: Reports and research. Yearbook of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe, Volume 14 . 2007, Oldenbourg, ISBN 3-486-58039-6 , p. 66.
  2. ^ Ieva Simonaitytė Memorial , accessed June 3, 2019.
  3. ^ I. Simonaityte Klaipėda District Library , accessed on June 3, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Simonaitytė, Ieva
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Vanagai
DATE OF DEATH August 27, 1978
Place of death Vilnius