Marta Sillaots

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Marta Sillaots (born April 30 . Jul / 12 May 1887 greg. In Rakke ; † 15. July 1969 in Tallinn , Estonia ) was an Estonian writer , literary critic and translator .

life and work

Grave in the Tallinn Forest Cemetery

Marta Adolfine Sillaots was born into a family of eleven as the daughter of the post office clerk Hindrik Reichenbach. In 1905 she completed her training as a private tutor at the renowned Nikolai grammar school in Tallinn. She then worked as a teacher, as a journalist and from 1916 to 1920 as an employee in the telegraph and editorial service. From 1922 she lived in Tallinn as a freelance writer and translator.

From 1909 Sillaots wrote newspaper articles. She appeared from 1912 as a literary critic in the magazines Eesti Kirjandus and Looming and wrote novels and children's books. Recurring themes in her prose are marriage, women's emancipation and love.

Sillaots has translated over 60 great writers from German ( Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg ), French ( Henri Barbusse , Gustave Flaubert , Anatole France , Roger Martin du Gard , Guy de Maupassant , Romain Rolland ), English ( Charles Dickens , John Galsworthy ) and Russian ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Maxim Gorky , Lev Tolstoy , Ivan Turgenev ) in front.

After the Soviet occupation of Estonia, Sillaots was arrested in 1950. From 1952 to 1955 she had to live in exile in the Sverdlovsk Oblast in the Urals . It was only allowed to return to the Estonian SSR with the de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union .

Marta Sillaots is a pseudonym . Her real name was Marta Reichenbach until her wedding in 1923 . From 1923 to 1936 her name was Marta Gerland . 1936 was her last name to Rannat estnisiert .

Works (selection)

Novels and short stories

  • Algajad (1912)
  • Anna Holm (1913)
  • Lapsed (1914)
  • Kodukaiyad (1921)
  • Viiskümmend (1937)
  • Neli Saatust (1938)

Children's books

  • Trips, Traps ja Trull (1935)
  • Trips, Traps ja Trull Tartus (1936)
  • Trips, Traps ja Trull Haapsalus (1937)
  • Trips, Traps ja Trull saavad sõbra (1938)
  • Matkamehed (1938)
  • Tahmekeste juures (1942)

memories

  • Sealtpoolt Künniseid (1938)

Literary studies

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), p. 491
  • Anu Saluäär: "Marta Sillaots 1887-1969." In: Looming 1987, No. 5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.videvik.ee/480/kirja.html
  2. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 478
personal data
SURNAME Sillaots, Marta
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sillaots, Marta Adolfine; Reichenbach, Marta; Gerland, Marta; Rannat, Marta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Rakke
DATE OF DEATH 15th July 1969
Place of death Tallinn