Paul Rummo

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Paul Rummo (born July 1, jul. / 14. July  1909 greg. In kalbų , community Kehtna ; † 28. March 1981 in Tallinn ) was an Estonian poet , writer and children's author .

Life

Rummo went to school in Kehtna from 1918 to 1924 and was at the Tallinn Teachers' College from 1924 to 1930. He then held various positions in the school service for ten years. From 1937 to 1940 he was also editor of the children's magazine Meie Noorus ('Our Youth') in Tallinn. After the communist seizure of power in Estonia, he took an active part in transforming society. He worked briefly in the Ministry of Education and in February 1941 became director of the Estonia Theater and editor of the magazine Teater ja Muusika ('Theater and Music'). During this phase he also took part in the “cleanup” of the Estonian libraries by being a member of a commission that sorted out “harmful” books.

When the German-Soviet War broke out in 1941, he went to the Soviet Union and organized the cultural life of the Estonian exile community there. After the war he worked in the Estonian publishing industry, from 1948 to 1949 as editor-in-chief for literature at the publishing house Ilukirjandus ja Kunst ('Beautiful Literature and Art') and from 1949 to 1953 at the successor publisher Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus ('Estonian State Publishing House '). He then lived as a freelance writer in Tallinn and still held various positions at the Estonian Writers' Union.

The children's book author Jaan Rummo is his brother, he is the father of the theater scholar Lea Tormis and the poet and politician Paul-Eerik Rummo .

Literary work

Rummo's first journalistic texts were printed in 1925, and he published his first plays for children in the late 1930s. During the war he appeared with anti-fascist poems and plays. Important for the development of Estonian poetry after the Second World War was his volume of poems Veerev kivi ('The Rolling Stone', 1955, excerpts published as early as 1953), in which “the stencils of Stalinism were clearly abandoned, poetry proved itself again than “normal” and was in much more direct contact with reality and that also meant the current social processes. ”In the year of Stalin's death , Rummo made his first contribution to the thaw period that was soon to come , which in Estonia would result in the poetry of Jaan Kross , Ellen Niit and Ain Kaalep , which was published in the second half of the 1950s.

Even after that, Rummo published various lyrical and journalistic works, although his editorial work, especially the compilation of anthologies and collected works of classics, became more important.

bibliography

  • Jõuluüllatus ('The Christmas Surprise'). Tallinn: Eesti Haridusliit 1935.
  • Lõunatuule eksirännak ('wandering south wind'). Tallinn: Eesti Haridusliit 1936.
  • Teel ellu ('On the way to life'). Tallinn: Eesti Haridusliit 1936.
  • Linnuse saladus ('The Secret of the Castle'). Tallinn: Eesti Haridusliit 1938.
  • Pruun katk. Sewing 3 vaatuses, 7 pildis. ('The brown plague. Play in 3 acts and 7 pictures'). Moskva : ENSV Riiklik Kirjastus 1943.
  • Tasuleegid. Ooper 3 vaatuses, 5 pildis (' Flames of retaliation. Opera in 3 acts and 5 pictures'). Tallinn: Ilukirjandus yes art 1945.
  • Mahtra sõda. E. Vilde romaani dramatiseering 6 pildis ('Uprising in Mahtra. Dramatization of Eduard Vilde's novel in 6 pictures'). Tallinn: Ilukirjandus yes art 1945.
  • Võitlev kodumaa ('Fighting Homeland'). Tallinn: Ilukirjandus yes art 1946.
  • Võitluse tea. Pilte Eesti elust vabaõhunäidendina (' Path of battle. Pictures from Estonian life as an open-air play'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1950.
  • Rahva võim. Luuletusi ja laule ('The power of the people. Poems and songs'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1950.
  • Volga-don. Kirjad esimeselt kommunismi suurehitiselt ('Volga-Don. Letters from the first large building of communism'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1953.
  • Veerev kivi. Luuletusi 1951-1965 ('The rolling stone. Poems 1951-1965'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1955.
  • Proloog ja poeemid ('Prologue and Poeme'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1961.
  • Katkenud long. Värsivalimik ('The broken thread. Selection of poems'). Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus 1969.
  • Kodumaal rännates ('Heimatliche Wanderings'). s. l .: Kodumaa 1970.
  • Alfred yes Anna ('Alfred and Anna'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1975.
  • Kirjatnah kammitsas. Kirjandus- ja kultuuriloolisi uurimusi, esseid, kõnesid. ('Under the spell of letters. Literary and cultural-historical studies, essays, speeches'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1977.
  • Matkalaul ('Wanderlied'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1979.
  • Jaak ja taat ('Jaak and the old man'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1985.
  • Väike luuleraamat ('Little Book of Poems'). Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1985.

Secondary literature

  • Keele ja Kirjanduse ringküsitlus kirjanikele: Millised olid teie kirjanduslikud huvid enne kirjandusse astumist ja kuidas valmisid teie esimesed tööd? , in Keel ja Kirjandus 6/1961, pp. 358-360.
  • Handbook of Soviet Literature (1917-1972) . Edited by Nadeshda Ludwig. Leipzig: Publishing House for Books and Libraries 1975, p. 428.
  • Rudolf Põldmäe: Paul Rummo publitsistina ja uurijana, in: Kirjanduse Jaosmaa 1977. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1979, pp. 185–190.
  • Kultuurilugu kirjades.- Juubeliintervjuu Paul Rummoga, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 7/1979, pp. 385-390.
  • Paul Kuusberg : Paul Rummo, in: Kirjanduse Jaosmaa 1981. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat 1983, pp. 97-100.
  • Ralf Parve : Muhelev Paul Rummo, in: Looming 7/1984, pp. 972–978.
  • Vaapo Vaher: Rummod ja Hiiumaa, in: Looming 1/2013, pp. 103–121.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eero Medijainen: Esimene nõukogude võimu aasta eesti raamatukogudes in: Tsensor Eesti raamatukogus. Uurimusi Eesti raamatukogunduse ajaloost 3 . Tallinn 1991, p. 31; Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 518.
  2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. From the beginning to the present. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter 2006, p. 585.
personal data
SURNAME Rummo, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Kalbu
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1981
Place of death Tallinn