Imbi Paju
Imbi Paju (born June 3, 1959 in Võtikvere, today the rural municipality of Torma , Jõgeva County , Estonia ) is an Estonian author, journalist and film director .
Life
Imbi Paju studied artistic subjects in Viljandi and Tartu . During the Soviet occupation of Estonia , Imbi Paju was employed as a choir soloist at the Vanemuine Theater in Tartu in southern Estonia. After regaining independence in the early 1990s, she worked as a correspondent for the Estonian daily newspapers Eesti Päevaleht and Postimees in Finland . From 1990 to 1995 she studied political science at the University of Helsinki . She also attended directing and camera courses.
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In 2006 Paju published her book Torjutut muistot - "Denied memories" in Finnish - (Estonian Tõrjutud mälestused , 2007; Swedish Förträngda minnen , 2007; English Memories Denied , 2009; Russian Отвергнутые воспоминанания ?, 2014 .; Where are you : Estonia , 2014 , ISBN 978-3-9451270-1-8 ). It deals with the history of her family during the Stalinist terror and the Soviet era in Estonia. Imbi Paju's mother was among the innocent Estonians who were deported to Siberian labor camps . Paju had already made a documentary film on this subject entitled Memories Denied , which premiered on November 1, 2005.
In March 2009, together with the Finnish-Estonian writer Sofi Oksanen, Imbi Paju's collection of articles Kaiken takana oli pelko (“Behind everything was fear”) followed. The volume was published in Estonian in 2010 under the title Kõige taga oli hirm . With the anthology, the writers remember the Stalinist deportations during the Soviet occupation of Estonia. In doing so, both want to make a contribution to bringing the crimes of communism back into the limelight, which are less in the awareness of the (Western) European public due to the intensive discussion of National Socialism .
In November 2009 Paju presented her documentary Soome lahe õed (“Sisters of the Gulf of Finland ”). The 59-minute film deals with the cooperation between the Estonian and Finnish paramilitary aid organizations for women, Naiskodukaitse and Lotta Svärd , in the interwar period . The two organizations maintained a close cooperation in the 1920s and 1930s, which was interrupted by the Soviet occupation of Estonia in the summer of 1940. The film is intended to keep alive the memory of the common people in Finland and Estonia who got caught up in the maelstrom of history by the Hitler-Stalin Pact .
Web links
- Official website
- Imbi Paju in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Paju, Imbi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian writer, journalist and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1959 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Võtikvere, now Torma Rural Municipality , Jõgeva County , Estonia |