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Rein Saluri (born September 22, 1939 in Tammiku , Rakke , Lääne-Virumaa ) is an Estonian writer .

Life

Rein Saluri first attended elementary school in Tammiku, but was then deported with his family to Siberia. From 1946 to 1951 he lived in Tobolsk . After his return he went to school in Otepää and Tartu and graduated from high school in 1959. From 1959 to 1964 he studied biology at the University of Tartu . After graduating, he was an aspirant in Leningrad for two years , but then left science and devoted himself to theater and literature.

From 1967 to 1971 he worked in the editorial department of various magazines. From 1972 to 1975 he worked as a literary editor at the Tallinn Drama Theater, from 1977 to 1982 he worked in the editorial department of Looming , then he was secretary of the Estonian Writers' Union for two years . Since then he has been living freelance in Tallinn.

Literary work

Saluri made his debut in a school almanac and in newspapers in the late 1950s; his first book was not published until 1972. Since then, he has continuously published short prose and stage works, and in both genres gained importance for Estonian post-war literature.

His texts are characterized by a rich language and complicated narratological structures. The main topic at Saluri is initially the past, which is often traumatically experienced, and later also the problems of contemporary society.

The focus at Saluri is on the psychological recording, processing and, if possible, processing of past events. This can also take on dimensions of a search for truth, as was the case with his first drama The Visitors (1974), in which the main character tries to find out the circumstances surrounding her father's death during the war years. The staging of this psychological piece has been seen as the “summary and final act of the theater renewal” in Estonia, which began after the end of the Stalin era.

Other of his plays also took up controversial issues such as the deportations of 1949 in his play Abgang (1988), which was also staged in Lithuania and Finland. It was staged by Mati Unt in the Finnish National Theater in 1988 .

Even in the later prose, the past does not let Saluri go. In his most famous story, Das Gedächtnis (1972), the focus is on the memory of the post-war period, when the Soviet power fought against the forest brothers and a small child suffered from the clashes. In his later stories, however, the range of topics is expanded and includes the current social situation. It is the resulting crises and inner disruptions of the people that now come into the focus of the author.

In the course of the Singing Revolution and the easing of censorship, Saluri also returned to the past, as the drama Abgang showed. In 1987 the magazine Looming published a short story with the simple title 5.3.53 - and everyone from Saluris or the older generation in Estonia knew what was meant: this was the anniversary of Stalin's death , and Saluri impressively describes the oppressive situation in the novella at that time.

Saluri has also published theater reviews, written popular science books for children, and translated from Russian and English.

Prices

Publications

  • Mälu. ('The Memory.') Short stories. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1972.
  • Külalised. ('The Visitors'.) Drama. Perioodika, Tallinn 1974.
  • Kõnelused. ('Conversations.') Dramas and short prose. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1976.
  • Kuidas. ('Please.') Children's literature. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1977.
  • Mees teab. ('A man knows'.) Narrative. Perioodika, Tallinn 1979.
  • Rebane räästa all. ('The fox under the eaves.') Dramas and short prose. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1979.
  • Kala metsas. ('The fish in the forest'.) Story. Perioodika, Tallinn 1981.
  • Uksed lahti, uksed kinni. ('Doors open, doors closed.') Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1981.
  • Üks, kaks, yes korraga. ('Ready, done and hit.') Three stories. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1983.
  • Puusõda ('The Tree Warfare.') Three stories. Eesti Raamat 1985.
  • Vaikne elu ('Still life.') Drama and short stories. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1988.
  • Minek. ('Departure'.) Drama. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1989.
  • Koguja. ('The collector'.) Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 1990. (Text selection from the years 1967–1987.)
  • Tobukesed. ('The boobies.') Three pranks. Perioodika, Tallinn 1995.
  • Naised yes loomad. ('Women and Animals.') Varrak, [Tallinn] 1996.
  • Katked. ('Miscell.') Perioodika, Tallinn 1999.

Reception in Germany

Saluri was only marginally noticed in German-speaking countries and does not have its own book publication.

It is mentioned in the margin of review articles on Estonian literature. René Beermann stated that some of the Estonian writers wanted to present the story “as it really was”, and gave Rein Saluri as an example.

Some of his stories have appeared in collections that have been published in Estonia. This affects the stories The Collector and My Father . The important story Das Gedächtnis was published in an anthology in the GDR: Das Gedächtnis.

literature

  • Irina Belobrovtseva : Rein Saluri looming tõlkija ja kriitiku pilgu läbi. In: Keel ja Kirjandus 6/1984, pp. 321–326.
  • Arno Oja: Kaks müüti Rein Salurist (50th sünnipäevaks). In: Looming 9/1989, pp. 1276-1281.
  • Meie intervjuu. In: Vikerkaar 3/1993, pp. 82-86.
  • Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, pp. 658, 678, 709.
  • Teet Kallas : Saladuslik Saluri: XX sajand (70th sünnipäevaks). In: Looming 9/2009, pp. 1251-1259.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Koostanud Oskar Kruus yes Heino Puhvel: Eesti kirjanike leksikon. Eesti Raamat, Tallinn 2000. pp. 507-508.
  2. ↑ Luule Epner: Virolainen teatteri ja draama 1960- ja 1970-luvulla: modernismi ja henkinen vastarinta. In: Kaksi tietä nykyisyyteen. Tutkimuksia kirjallisuuden, kansallisuuden ja kansallisten liikkeiden suhteista Suomessa ja Virossa. Toimittaneet Tero Koistinen, Piret Kruuspere, Erkki Sevänen, Risto Turunen. Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki 1999, p. 350.
  3. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. De Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2006, p. 678.
  4. ^ Individual references in: Cornelius Hasselblatt: Estonian Literature in German Language 1784–2003. Bibliography of primary and secondary literature. Hempen Verlag, Bremen 2004, p. 123.
  5. ↑ René Beermann: Some Characteristics of Modern Estonian Literature. In: Eastern Europe 5/1977, p. 409.
  6. ↑ Translated from Russian by Harry Burck, in: Exquisite 6th Novellas from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Volk und Welt publishing house, Berlin 1983, pp. 40–55.
personal data
SURNAME Saluri, Rein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tammiku , Rakke , Lääne-Virumaa , Estonia