Kazys Boruta
Kazys Boruta ( January 6, 1905 in Kūlokai , near Marijampolė - March 9, 1965 , in Vilnius , Lithuanian SSR ) was a Lithuanian writer , poet, and political activist.
During the fascist Smetona dictatorship he joined the group of authors around the magazine Trečias frontas , whose representatives mostly changed from an avant-garde attitude to a combative one. From 1926 to 1930 he studied in Vienna . There he met his first wife Ona Kazanskaitė (1905–1941). During the Nazi occupation of Lithuania, he supported the librarian Ona Šimaitė in her resistance work and her humanitarian aid for the Jews in the Vilnius ghetto .
His best-known work, Baltaragio malūnas ( German The Mill of Baltaragis ), is also available as a stage version, as a film version (under the Lithuanian title Velnio nuotaka , de: The Devil's Bride ) and as a ballet.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Annaberger Annalen 20/2012
- ↑ Kazys Boruta . Institute of Lithuanian Scientific Society. Retrieved September 29, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boruta, Kazys |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian poet and political activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kūlokai near Marijampolė |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 9, 1965 |
| Place of death | Vilnius |