Kustas Kotsar

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Kustas Kotsar, caricature by Gori .

Kustas Kotsar (also Gustav K. , * February 4, July 16  / February 16, 1872 greg. In Särevere, today the rural community of Türi ; † April 10, 1942 in Tartu ) was an Estonian journalist and writer.

Life

Kotsar went to school in Arussaare, Tallinn and Põltsamaa , where he attended the Estonian Alexander School from 1888 to 1891 . From 1893 he worked as a teacher for four years, in 1898 he joined the editorial team of the newspaper Olevik , which he edited practically alone from 1901 to 1902. He then completed additional legal training and worked temporarily as a lawyer . In the upheaval of the revolution of 1905, however, he was again active as a journalist and soon had to go into hiding. After staying in various places, he was caught in St. Petersburg in 1907 and sentenced to forced labor in a political trial in Tallinn in 1909, which was later reduced to a prison term in Tallinn. In 1911 he was released and worked again until 1921 as a journalist for various newspapers. From 1922 to 1929 he was head of the press department in the Estonian Ministry of Trade and Industry.

plant

Kotsar began to write in prison and published two volumes of prose (1911, 1913) in which he sketched a realistic picture of everyday life. His short stories, in which he portrayed the life of political prisoners, deserved special attention. One critic drew parallels with Karl Rumor and stated that Kotsar “seemed much fresher than the younger exponents of our realism like Mait Metsanurk or Jaan Lintrop ” in places , although at the same time he is hard on the style and the artistic level. His collection, published two years later, was confirmed by another critic that its author was a "very good stylist".

In any case, the "description of the living conditions of political prisoners [...] was actually a new topic at the time."

bibliography

  • Elutungi avaldused ('expressions of the urge to live'). Tartu: K. Kotsar 1911. 125 pp.
  • Paigulised. Jutustused maalt ja linnast ('Die Fleckigen. Tales of town and country'). Tallinn: Maa 1913. 140 pp.

Literature on the author

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Oskar Kruus: Pilk Kustas Kotsari eluteele, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 4/1967, p. 225.
  2. ↑ Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 2000, p. 219.
  3. ↑ Bernhard Linde : Pilk tagasi in: Eesti Kirjandus 2/1912, pp 52-53.
  4. ^ Karl August Hindrey : in: Eesti Kirjandus 5/1913, p. 209.
  5. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 381.
personal data
SURNAME Kotsar, Kustas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kotsar, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Särevere, today the rural municipality of Türi
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1942
Place of death Tartu