Salme Ekbaum

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Salme Ekbaum (until 1941 Salme Neumann, * 8 October July / 21 October 1912 greg. In the parish of Aidu, today the rural parish of Paistu , Viljandi County , Estonia ; †  September 10, 1995 in Toronto , Canada ) was an Estonian writer and Poet .

life and work

Like her sister, the poet Minni Nurme (1917–1994), Salme Ekbaum was born on the Kiini homestead in Livonia . Until 1931 she attended the girls high school in Viljandi .

Salme Ekbaum graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in pharmacy in 1936 . She then worked as a pharmacist in Võhma . From 1937 to 1939 she underwent a healing stay. She then worked in pharmacies in Kuressaare , Karuse and Tartu.

Before the advancing Red Army she fled to Sweden in 1944 . From 1949 she was a pharmacist in Stockholm . In 1949 she moved to Canada with her husband.

Salme Ekbaum died in Toronto in 1995. She is buried in the cemetery of her native Paistu parish.

Writer

Ekbaum became one of the most famous Estonian writers in exile after the Second World War .

In addition to her prose work , she became particularly famous for her natural poetry. Her estate is now - like that of her husband Artur Ekbaum (1903-1976), to whom she was married since June 1941 - administered by the Tartu Institute in Toronto.

Salme Ekbaum was the aunt of the Estonian writer Eeva Park .

Works (selection)

  • Valga maja ( novel , 1946)
  • Ilmapõllu inimesed (novel, 1948, English translation: Farm in the forest.Goteborg , 1949)
  • Indiaani suvel (collection of poems, 1951)
  • Lindprii talu (novel, 1951)
  • Külaliseks on ootus (novel, 1952)
  • Kärestik (novel, 1955)
  • Süteoja (novel, 1957)
  • Õigusenõudja (novel, 1962)
  • Veimevakk ( childhood memories, 1964)
  • Kontvõõras (novel, 1966)
  • Kivi kiljatas aknasse (collection of poems, 1967)
  • Ajatar (collection of poems, 1968)
  • Suitsupääsuke ( drama , 1973)
  • Vang, kes põgenes (novel, 1975)
  • Kohtumine lennujaamas (novel, 1979)
  • Talioras (collection of poems, 1988)
  • Õhtu tiiva all (collection of poems, 1992)

literature

  • Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), p. 576

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 54
  2. ↑ http://www.tartuinstitute.ca/index.php?id=10541
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nlib.ee
personal data
SURNAME Ekbaum, Salme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neumann, Salme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian writer and poet
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Aidu, now Paistu Rural Parish , Viljandi County , Estonia
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1995
Place of death Toronto , Canada