Marta Lepp

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Marta Lepp (until 1913 Marta Kirschbaum, from 1927 Marta Utuste; born November 12, 1883 in Vardi, then Nissi parish , Harju district ; † November 11, 1940 in Tartu ) was an Estonian writer.

life and work

Marta (Maarda) Sophia Lepp attended the secondary girls' school in Tallinn until 1899 . In 1904 she passed her exams as private tutor in Saint Petersburg . A year later she took part in the Russian Revolution of 1905. She was arrested several times by the tsarist authorities and exiled to Siberia twice . In 1906 she was able to flee Tobolsk . She then studied education in the Russian capital from 1906 to 1908 . Marta Lepp then worked as a private tutor in Russia and Finland . After Estonian independence in 1918, she returned to her homeland. In 1919/20 she was a teacher in Tallinn and Jäneda . Until 1928 she taught Estonian in Tallinn.

Marta Lepp was heavily involved in the women's movement and in politics. She was a co-founder of the Estonian Social Democratic Party. Marta Lepp was also interested in religious questions. In 1925 she founded the neo-pagan-Estonian religious community of Taarausk with her husband Kustas Utuste (until 1927: Gustav Kirschbaum ) and was editor of the Taarausk magazine Hiis .

Marta Lepp was also known as a writer by her stage name Sophia Vardi . She mainly wrote prose texts and plays, as well as the libretto for the opera Kalmuneid by the Estonian composer Artur Lemba .

Works (selection)

  • Esimesed tuuled (short prose, 1914)
  • Seisates (short prose, 1919)
  • Decoration (drama, 1922)
  • Sirelid (small plays, 1923)
  • Haabvere (novel, 1926)
  • Mälestused (Memoirs, three volumes, 1922–1927)

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), p. 492

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 283
personal data
SURNAME Lepp, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lepp, Marta Sophia; Vardi, Sophia; Kirschbaum, Marta; Utuste, Marta; Lepp-Utuste, Marta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Vardi, then Nissi parish , Harju district
DATE OF DEATH November 11, 1940
Place of death Tartu