Karl August Hindrey

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Karl August Hindrey (born August 15, 1875 in Abja , † January 5, 1947 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer , journalist and cartoonist .

life and work

Karl August Hermann Hindrey first attended the local village school, then schools in Viljandi and Pärnu . He passed his Abitur at the renowned Hugo-Treffner-Gymnasium in Tartu . Hindrey studied from 1894 to 1904 at various private art schools in Saint Petersburg , in Munich with Anton Ažbe and Paris . Between 1904 and 1928 he was a journalist for various Estonian newspapers, including in the editorial offices of Postimees and Päevaleht . He was also one of the most important theater, art and literary critics of the interwar period in Estonia. His picture stories in the style of Wilhelm Busch founded the Estonian comic literature . In some cases he published under the pseudonym Hoia Ronk .

In Estonia he quickly became known as an astute and sharp-tongued caricaturist, who particularly targeted Tsarism , the Baltic Germans and upstarts in Estonian society. The influences of Art Nouveau and German Simplicissimus have shaped his work. 1905 founded the satirical magazine Hindrey Sädemed and was 1924-1926 editor of the satire sheet Kratt .

It was not until 1929 that Hindrey made his debut with his own fiction , the story Kunstikool in the literary magazine Looming . Hindrey wrote numerous short stories and novels , a play as well as travel stories and memories .

With the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Hindrey went underground and fought against the occupying forces. During the subsequent German occupation of Estonia (1941-1944) he wrote in the press about Soviet atrocities. In 1944 an attempt to escape from the approaching Red Army failed . Until 1947 he successfully hid under a false name in a retirement home, where he died in poor circumstances.

Works (selection)

Children's books

  • "Pambu-Peedu" (1906)
  • "Nina-Jass ja Näpu-Mall" (1918)
  • "Jaunart-Jauram" (1921)
  • "Lõhkiläinud Kolumats" (posthumous, 1979)

memories

  • "Minu elukroonika" (three volumes, 1929)
  • "Murrang" (1930)
  • "Tõnissoni juures" (1931)

Travel stories

  • "1914. Reisipildid "(1924)
  • "Kongosõit" (1929)
  • "Rännud, rannad, Riviera, sõsarsaared ja Savoy" (1937)

Plays

  • "Raidaru kirikumõis" (1935)

Novel collections

  • "Välkvalgus" (1932)
  • "Armastuskiri" (1933)
  • "Sigtuna häving" (1937)
  • "Südamed" (1938)
  • "Hukatus Mälaril" (1939)
  • "Yes oli kunagi keegi ..." (posthumous selection collection, 1968)
  • "Kaugekõne" (posthumous selection collection, 1986)

Novels

  • "Urmas ja Merike" (1935/1936)
  • "Loojak" (two volumes, 1938)
  • "Sündmusteta suvi" (1937)
  • "Ja ilma ja inimesi ma tundsin viimati ka" (1939)
  • "Taaniel Tümmi tähelend" (1942)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.htg.tartu.ee/eng/?sub=kuulsamad
  2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature , p. 471
personal data
SURNAME Hindrey, Karl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hoia Ronk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer, journalist and cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1875
PLACE OF BIRTH Abja
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1947
Place of death Tallinn