Jaan Oks

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Jaan Oks (* February 16 . Jul / 28. February  1884 greg. In the village of Katla , then community Pärsama, today community Saaremaa / island of Saaremaa ; †  25. February 1918 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer and literary critic.

Life

Jaan Oks was born into the family of a schoolmaster. In 1902 he completed his four-year pedagogy course at the Kaarma teachers' seminar on the island of Saaremaa (German Ösel ). In 1903/04 he worked as a teacher in the community of Pühalepa ( Pühhalep ) on the island of Hiiumaa ( Dagö ). At the same time he attended training courses in Haapsalu ( Hapsal ).

From 1905 he worked as a school principal in Massu ( Massau ) in the Lääne district and from 1907 as a teacher and sexton in an Estonian settlement in the Samara Oblast / Russia . However, there he lived largely as a bohemian , so that he was fired in 1910/11. He then returned to his hometown Mardi-Kusta in the village of Ratla ( Rattel ) under the care of the family. There he got by with unskilled labor.

In 1914, with the beginning of the First World War , Oks was drafted into the Russian army as a soldier . However, he was retired as unfit and posted to the fortress service in Tallinn.

In May 1917, Oks contracted bone tuberculosis . He died in Tallinn the day after Estonian independence was proclaimed. Jaan Oks is buried today in the Rahumäe Cemetery in Tallinn.

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From 1906 Jaan Oks wrote prose , poetry and literary reviews , some of which he sent to newspaper editors. The majority of them are considered lost and have never been published.

Jaan Oks was close to the literary circle Noor-Eesti ("Young Estonia") with his work . Oks' poetry was particularly inspired by German Expressionism . Most of his often provocative and partly pornographic work was only published after his death and received only hesitantly and fragmentarily until the 1950s.

Main publications

  • Tume inimeselaps (novellas, 1918)
  • Neljapäev (short stories and miniatures, 1920)
  • Kannatamine (Oratorio, 1920)
  • Kriitilized tundmused (Essays, 1920)
  • Kogutud teosed (Collected Works, 1957)
  • Otsija metsas (poems and short stories, 2003)
  • Orjapojad (articles, essays and letters, 2004)

In German was published: "Das Dorf" ( Küla ). From the Estonian by Horst Bernhardt. In: Trajekt 6/1986.

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 407-410

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature , p. 407
personal data
SURNAME Oks, Jaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Ratla village, then Pärsama municipality, today Saaremaa municipality , on Saaremaa island
DATE OF DEATH February 25, 1918
Place of death Tallinn