Leida Kibuvits

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Leida Kibuvits (born October 5 . Jul / 18th October  1907 . Greg village Kurepalu , community Haaslava , Livonia , † 5. December 1976 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian writer .

life and work

Leida Kibuvits was born as Leida Kup (p) its in what is now southern Estonia. She grew up in simple circumstances. In 1911 the family moved to Tartu . The father, Jan Kupits, died when Leida was twelve years old.

From 1913 to 1919 she attended the German-speaking girls' school in Tartu. In 1927 she graduated from the girls' high school in the southern Estonian city. From 1922 to 1924 she also took courses at the Tartu Art School Pallas .

In 1927 she was employed as a pharmacy assistant for a short time before she worked in the Varrak printing house until 1929 . She then worked from 1929 to 1931 in the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Estonia as a shorthand typist. In 1931 she married the Estonian lieutenant August Kibovits (from 1935 Kibuvits, 1904-1967).

Leida Kibuvits made her debut as a writer in 1932 with her novel Soomustüdruk , which was printed as a result of a literary competition (abridged). More novels followed in the years to come, with which she was successful. From 1932 to 1939 Kibuvits lived as a freelance writer in Pärnu and Viljandi , then in Tallinn. In 1938 she joined the Estonian Writers' Union. In addition to her fiction work, she wrote numerous literary reviews and feature articles . She also illustrated some of her books herself.

With the beginning of the (second) Soviet occupation of Estonia, Kibuvits was head of the cultural department at the communist newspaper Rahva Hääl from 1944 to 1946 .

In February 1950, Leida Kibuvits was arrested by the Soviet occupation authorities for political reasons and sentenced to 25 years in prison and five years in exile. It was not until 1955 that she was able to return to Estonia from captivity in Siberia in the Perm Oblast in the course of de-Stalinization .

Leida Kibuvits is buried today in the forest cemetery ( Metsakalmistu ) in the Estonian capital Tallinn.

Literary works (selection)

  • Soomustüdruk (novel, abridged version 1932; fully published 1957)
  • Rahusõit (novel, 1933)
  • Paradiisi pärisperenaine (novel, 1934)
  • Manglus Sepapoeg (novel, 1936)
  • Kass arvab, et ... (novel, 1936)
  • Leinapajud (family novel , unfinished)
  • Rist ja rõõm (collection of short stories , 1938)
  • Sipelgaõli (collection of short stories, 1941)
  • Kaks meest on ikka kaks meest (youth story , 1947)
  • Tuljak ja Tups (youth story , 1948)
  • Elagu inimene (collection of short stories, 1962)
  • Endistest aegadest ( prose collection, posthumously, 1977)
  • Lepatriinupunane (collection of short stories, posthumously, 1987)

Leida Kibuvits also worked as a literary translator from German . The translations into Estonian of Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship Years (1958) and Wilhelm Meister's Wanderjahre (1959) as well as (together with Nigol Andresen ) of the novellas by Stefan Zweig (1965) come from her.

literature

  • Eesti elulood. Tallinn: Eesti entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 156

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature . Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , p. 490
  2. ↑ http://prosopos.esm.ee/index.aspx?type=1
personal data
SURNAME Kibuvits, Leida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kupits, Leida (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Kurepalu village , Haaslava municipality , Livonia
DATE OF DEATH 5th December 1976
Place of death Tallinn