Irma Truupõld

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Irma Truupõld (real name Johanna Pihlak , formerly Johanna Wilhelmine Irmgard Treufeldt , born July 16 . Jul / 29. July  1903 greg. In Tallinn ; † 26. November 1980 in Tallinn) was an Estonian poet and children's author .

life and work

Irma Truupõld graduated from high school in 1924 and then studied for a short time at the State School of Applied Arts. Afterwards she worked in a newspaper editorial office, where she worked with the well-known children's book author Julius Oengo , among others . From 1932 she lived as a freelance writer in Tallinn.

During her high school days she corresponded with the well-known poet and children's book author Friedrich Kuhlbars , and she made her debut in a magazine in 1923. The author quickly became popular with her imaginative stories from the life of insects. Before the Second World War, she published a book in Finnish translation.

After the Second World War , however, her career came to an abrupt end under the sign of Stalinism . Her husband was imprisoned in 1945, and her books were panned as ideologically wrong, so that from 1952 to 1956 she again worked as an accountant in a newspaper office and fell silent literarily.

bibliography

  • Rohelise päikese maa ('The Land of the Green Sun'). Tartu: Loodus 1936. 128 pp.
  • Öömori okaslinn ('The Needle City Öömori'). Tartu: Loodus 1936. 80 pp.
  • Aadi esimene armastus ('Aadi's first love'). Tartu: Loodus 1937. 208 pp.
  • Kuidas jõuluvana Leidis endale ameti ('How Santa Claus found work'). Tartu: Loodus 1937. 19 pp.

Translations into German

A children's book by Irma Truupõld has been published in German in Estonia:

  • The land of the green sun . Translated from Estonian by Gisela Teeäär. Drawn by Roman Kivit. Tallinn: Perioodika 1985. 111 pp.

Literature on the author

  • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer: Classics of children's and youth literature. An international lexicon. Stuttgart, Weimar: Metzler 1999, Volume 2, pp. 1096-1097.
  • Janika Läänemets: Nõukogude aja keerises. Irma Truupõllu lugu, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 1/2017, pp. 8–21.
  • Eerik Teder: Irma Truupõld 70, in: Looming 7/1973, pp. 1228–1229.
  • Eerik Teder: Meenutades Irma Truupõldu, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 2/1981, pp. 127–128.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 615.
  2. ↑ Vihreän auringon maa . Suomentanut Kerttu Mustonen. Helsinki: Otava 1938.
  3. ↑ Janika Läänemets: Nõukogude aja keerises. Irma Truupõllu lugu, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 1/2017, p. 13.
personal data
SURNAME Truupõld, Irma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pihlak, Johanna; Treufeldt, Johanna Wilhelmine Irmgard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian children's author and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 1980
Place of death Tallinn