Ilmar Laaban
Ilmar Laaban (* 11. December 1921 in Tallinn , Estonia ; † 29. November 2000 in Stockholm - Hägersten , Sweden ) was an Estonian exile - poet and literary translator .
life and work
Ilmar Laaban attended school in Tallinn from 1934 to 1940. He studied piano and composition at the Tallinn Conservatory . In 1940 he enrolled in French philology at the University of Tartu .
Laaban emigrated to Sweden via Finland in 1943 during the German occupation of Estonia . From 1943 to 1949 he studied Romance studies and philosophy at Stockholm University . He then worked as a freelance writer and editor in Stockholm. His work remained banned in the Soviet Union .
Ilmar Laaban wrote mainly poetry and literary criticism. He also wrote essays in Estonian and Swedish . He has translated numerous Estonian poems, including into Swedish and German . In addition, he mainly translated French poetry, especially Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud , into Estonian and Swedish.
In 1988 his essays and articles were published in the four-volume Swedish-language collection Skrifter . In 1997 the collection of essays Marsyase nahk was published in Estonian.
Ilmar Laaban wrote many of his poems in the style of surrealism and onomatopoeic poetry , the pioneer of which he is considered to be in Estonian literature . He was very interested in language and sound games in the style of Ernst Jandl . Kurt Schwitters was his great role model .
Also known is Laaban's collection of over 5,000 entries and new creations of Estonian, Swedish and French palindromes , some of which appeared in Sweden in 2007 under the title Palingarderomb .
Collections
- Ankruketi lõpp on laulu algus (1946)
- Rroosi Selaviste (1957)
- Poesi (1988, in Swedish)
- Grandma luulet ja võõrast (1990)
- Magneetiline jõgi (2001)
- Sõnade sülemid, sülemite süsteemid (2004)
- Eludrooge ego-ordule (2008)
literature
- Gisbert Jänicke : “Eat Estonian pies in Estonian niches”. Ilmar Laaban's poetic world. ”In: Estonia 2/2000, pp. 29–45
- Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 574f.
Web links
- Catalog of works (Swedish)
- Biography (french)
- Poems in Estonian
- Poems in French
- Laaban. Broad view from a narrow bridge (Estonian Literary Magazine)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 216
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laaban, Ilmar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian poet and literary translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 11, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallinn , Estonia |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 29, 2000 |
| Place of death | Stockholm - Hägersten , Sweden |