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Marie Under (* March 15 . Jul / 27. March 1883 greg. In Tallinn ; † 25. September 1980 in Stockholm ) was an Estonian poet.
Life
Marie Under was born as the daughter of the school teacher Priidu (Friedrich) Under and his wife Leena Under (née Kerner). The family originally came from Hiiumaa Island . From 1891 to 1900 she attended the German Girls' School in Tallinn. Marie Under began to write her first poems at the age of eleven, initially mainly in German. In 1902 she married Carl Hacker and worked as a bookseller. The family lived in Moscow until 1906 .
With the support of the painter Ants Laikmaa , Marie Under devoted herself more and more to the art of poetry in Estonian. She belonged from the beginning to the Siuru movement, which is strongly committed to symbolism . Her first volume of poetry, Sonetid ("Sonette"), was already a literary success in 1917. Her poems are shaped by a thirst for life and a devotion to love and nature. In 1927 she married the Estonian poet Artur Adson and became one of the most influential Estonian poets .
In 1944 Marie Under fled to Sweden before the Soviet Union occupied Estonia . There tones of homesickness for Estonia increasingly mixed into her work. From 1945 to 1957 she worked at the Stockholm Theater Museum.
Poetry collections
- Sonetid (1917)
- Eelõitseng (1918)
- Sinine puri (1918)
- Verivalla (1920)
- Parisosa (1923)
- Hääl varjust (1927, German: "Voice from the Shadow", 1949)
- Rõõm ühest ilusast päevast (1928)
- Õnnevarjutus (1929)
- Lageda taeva all (1930)
- Kivi südamelt (1935)
- Mureliku suuga (1942)
- Sädemed tuhas (1954)
- Ääremail (1963)
- Mu süda laulab (posthumous anthology, 1981)
literature
- Maria Under , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 34/1981 from August 10, 1981, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about Marie Under in the catalog of the German National Library
- About Marie Under (Estonian Literary Magazine, English)
- Marie Under in pictures
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Under, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Under, Maria |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Estonian poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tallinn |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 25, 1980 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |