Keel yes Kirjandus

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Keel yes Kirjandus

description Estonian philological journal
language Estonian
First edition 1958
Frequency of publication per month
ISSN (print) 0131-1441

Keel ja Kirjandus (in German "Language and Literature") is a linguistic and literary journal in Estonia .

precursor

At the beginning of the 20th century, Estonian cultural life had become so well established that the time was ripe for the establishment of a cultural magazine. In 1906 Jaan Jõgever founded the magazine Eesti Kirjandus ('Estonian Literature'), which was published by the Estonian Literary Society from the following year . Despite the name, the magazine dealt with linguistic issues until the Eesti Keel magazine ('Estonian language') was founded in 1922 . The magazine appeared until 1940 and was discontinued after the occupation of Estonia by the Soviet Union and the subsequent Sovietization . The same thing happened with Eesti Keel magazine . After that, there were briefly six issues in the magazine Eesti Keel ja Kirjandus in 1941 .

Start-up

Even after the de-Stalinization in Estonia and a recovery of cultural life in the second half of the 1950s, the founding of a magazine with the name “Eesti” (Estonia, Estonian) in the title was out of the question. Therefore, in 1958, a monthly magazine with the neutral name "Language and Literature" was launched, but the content was mainly concerned with the "Estonian language" and "Estonian literature". The third branch of science covered in the journal is folklore .

Since the magazine had long since established itself internationally, its name was not changed after the Singing Revolution and Estonia regained independence in 1991. Today the publication of Keel ja Kirjandus is financially supported by the Estonian Ministry of Culture and the Estonian Cultural Capital .

Keel ja Kirjandus is published twelve times a year. The editorial office is based in Tallinn . The 2015 edition was just under 600 copies.

Editors-in-chief

Literature on the history of the magazine

  • Rein Kruus : Keel ja Kirjandus - 25 . In: Looming , 3/1983, pp. 416-419.
  • Kalle Kurg : Ühisvaratundest . (Keel yes Kirjandus 25). In: Looming , 3/1983, pp. 420-421.
  • Rudolf Põldmäe : Keele ja Kirjanduse veerandsada aastat . In: Kirjanduse jaosmaa '83 . Koostanud Endel Mallene. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1985, pp. 48-52.
  • Quinquagint . In: Keel ja Kirjandus , 2008, 1-2 (anniversary number with further articles on the history of the magazine).

Trivia

In 1986 Udo Uibo wrote an essay on the Estonian epic Kalevipoeg and in particular a book by Enn Vetemaa on this subject. At the last moment the censors discovered a "dangerous" one, i.e. H. in Soviet eyes too nationalistic passage, the removal of which was requested. But since the magazine was already printed and raw materials were scarce, one sheet was removed by hand from all 3,300 copies and replaced with another. It concerns pages 345–346 of the 1986 year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin / New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , p. 350.
  2. ↑ Udo Uibo: Küll siis Kalev jõuab koju! (Enn Vetemaa abiga). In: Keel ja Kirjandus , 6/1986, pp. 342-350.
  3. ↑ Aksel Tamm: Riikliku tsensuuri viimased ohked . In: Keel ja Kirjandus , 1/2008, pp. 72–74.