Tarapita
Tarapita was a literary movement in Estonian literature in the early 1920s .
She was active in 1921/22, but had a significant influence on the literary scene in Estonia . Almost all well-known young authors of the time belonged to it. Tarapita is named after the mythological god Tharapita of the pagan Estonians .
The group's manifesto was penned by Johannes Semper . It denounces the grievances of capitalism and intellectual impoverishment. The manifesto was signed by Artur Adson , August Alle , Jaan Kärner , Albert Kivikas , Johannes Semper , Gustav Suits , Aleksander Tassa , Friedebert Tuglas , Marie Under and Johannes Vares-Barbarus .
Tarapita was, in a way, a literary disintegration product of the Siuru movement that started in 1917 . The Tarapita literary group saw itself as a cultural-political movement. Shortly after Estonian independence in 1918, she advocated a stronger role for culture and literature in Estonian society. In contrast to currents in Estonian literature such as Noor-Eesti , Tarapita came to the fore against social injustices. Social ethics should be placed at the center of writing and trading. Feelings took a back seat to conscious analysis. As a youth movement, questions of education and future prospects played a role. Conservative politicians accused Tarapita of taking sides for socialist ideas or even for the Soviet Union .
In 1921 Tarapita undertook a literary tour of Estonia with literary works and programmatic speeches. Friedebert Tuglas published the influential Tarapita magazine from September 1921 . It was published until December 1922.
literature
- Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 ( ISBN 3-11-018025-1 ), pp. 438-442.
- Toomas Haug: “Tarapita” ja tarapitalased, in: Keel ja Kirjandus 1/1983, pp. 8–19; 2/1983, pp. 61-72.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt: History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006 p. 439.