Juhan Jaik

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Juhan Jaik (born January 13, 1899 on the Sänna farm, today Võru County / Estonia ; † December 10, 1948 in Stockholm / Sweden ) was an Estonian writer and journalist .

Life

Juhan Jaik grew up in the village of Roosiku near Tsooru (today Antsla municipality ). He graduated from the Tsooru Ministerial School in 1913. In 1915 he had to leave his home Võru in southern Estonia for political reasons because of allegedly conspiratorial activities . From 1915 to 1917 he lived in various cities on the Volga and got by with office work. In 1917 he returned to Estonia. He was briefly imprisoned by the Bolsheviks .

In Estonia, which had become independent, he initially continued his education. From 1920 to 1924 he worked in a publishing house. He then worked as an editor at the daily Päevaleht (1924-1926), then at the Kaitseliit newspaper , Kaitse kodu (1926/27), and from 1928 to 1935 at Postimees in Tallinn . From 1936 to 1940 Jaik was a consultant in the Estonian Ministry of Education.

In 1941, under the German occupation of Estonia, he became editor of the local newspaper Võrumaa Teataja . In 1944 he had to flee to Sweden via Germany and France before the advancing Red Army . He settled near Norrköping . Juhan Jaik died in exile in Sweden in 1948.

writer

Juhan Jaik was a popular youth writer in the interwar period and one of the most important representatives of Estonian children's theater. In 1926 he joined the Estonian Writers' Union. He also wrote popular poems and short stories. His folk tales from his home region of Võrumaa in southern Estonia were particularly popular. They appeared in 1924 and 1933 under the title Võrumaa jutud . His imaginative, exciting and homely stories inspired Estonia until the outbreak of the Second World War . He also translated from Russian , including works by Maxim Gorki and Leo Uspenski .

Works (selection)

  • Rõuge kiriku kell (collection of poems, 1924)
  • Võrumaa jutud (collection of short stories, two volumes, 1924 and 1933)
  • Kaamelid pasunapuhujatega (collection of short stories, 1928)
  • Uhuu jutustused (youth book, 1929)
  • Pombi ja Üdsimärdi nõiad ( children's book, 1932)
  • Hunt (children's book, 1942)
  • Nõiutud Tuks (children's book, 1944)
  • Kuldne elu (collection of short stories, published in 1946 in exile in Sweden)

Private life

Juhan Jaik married Wilhelmine Kanarik in Tartu in 1927 . The couple had four children.

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personal data
SURNAME Jaik, Juhan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Sänna Farm, today Võru County , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1948
Place of death Stockholm