Julius Oengo

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Julius Oengo (from 1935 Julius Õngo , pseudonyms Jaan Oro or Oro ; * March 3 July / March 16,  1901 greg. On the Pleesi farm, Harju , Hiiumaa Island , Estonia Governorate ; †  August 25, 1941 in Paldiski , uncertain ) was one of the most famous and productive Estonian children's book authors of the interwar period . He mostly wrote under his pseudonym J. Oro .

life and work

Julius Robert Oengo was born as the son of the captain Gustav Oengo (1869-1925) and his wife Helene Piht († 1941) on the second largest Estonian island Hiiumaa. Oengo attended elementary and middle schools in Haapsalu (1909–1913) and Tallinn (1913–1917). In Tallinn he went to evening secondary school in 1917/18.

Then Oengo returned to his homeland Hiiumaa. In 1918/19 he found a job as a primary school teacher in Aruküla . In 1919/20 he was a teacher on the mainland in Haapsalu. At the same time he passed the professional examination for teaching in 1920. Later he was a teacher in Tartu . In addition to his teaching activities, he took courses from 1920 to 1922 at the higher art school " Pallas " in Tartu. He was unable to complete his art studies because of a lung disease. In 1923 he moved to the city of Nõmme near Tallinn.

In the early 1920s, Oengo began writing prose and poetry for children. From 1923 to 1934 he was the chief editor of the monthly children's magazine Laste Rõõm ("Children 's Joy "). The magazine was published once a month from 1921 until the Soviet occupation of Estonia in 1940. In 1927 Oengo joined the Estonian Writers' Union ( Eesti Kirjanikkude Liit ).

From 1926 until his death, Oengo was a primary school teacher in Vasalemma near Tallinn. A plaque commemorates him today on the former manor house in which the school was located.

With the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Julius Oengo was arrested on August 23, 1941. His further fate is not documented. He was probably murdered by his captors a short time later.

Works (selection)

The commemorative stone erected for Julius Oengo's 100th birthday at the Kuri school on Hiiumaa Island

Julius Oengo is best known as a writer of stories for children and young people. He also wrote over 400 poems for children and adults. More than forty of them were set to music. Many of his children's poems and songs are still popular in Estonia today.

Poetry collections

  • Ööpäev (1921)
  • Meie kevad (1922, with Adele (Ada) Oengo-Johanson )
  • Tahkuna (1926, reprinted 1995)
  • Aegna (1929)
  • Hiir rätsepaks (children's lyric anthology, 1967, posthumous)
  • Minu päev (2001, posthumous)

Prose for children and young people (selection)

  • Illi ja Pisi-ity (1924)
  • Jõuluõhtu (1925)
  • Üle Atlandi (1928, new edition 2001)
  • Jahimees Juss
  • Karjapoiss Juks
  • Kuidas elas Kärdi Kusti
  • Hiirepere
  • Miisi seiklused
  • Muna
  • Õhupallid

Children's songs (selection)

  • Minu valge hani
  • Tiliseb, tiliseb aisakell
  • Üle lume lagedale
  • Üks mehike elutseb mannikus

libretto

  • Libretto for the opera Armastus ja surm by Artur Lemba (1931)

Private life

Julius Oengo was married twice: from 1920 to 1923 with Elise Kiivramees (1897–1952), then from 1923 with Melanie Kreek (1905–1996), sister of the composer Cyrillus Kreek (1889–1962). Oengo had a total of nine children.

Julius Oengo's sister was the educator and children's book author Adele Oengo-Johanson (1896–1963).

literature

  • Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 335

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Armin Hetzer : Estonian literature. A historical overview. Wiesbaden: 2007 ( ISBN 3447054662 ), p. 214f.
personal data
SURNAME Oengo, Julius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Õngo, Julius; Oro, Jaan; Oro
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian poet and children's book author
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Harju , Hiiumaa Island , Estonia Governorate
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: August 25, 1941
Place of death unsure: Paldiski