Teet kallas

Teet Kallas (2010)

Teet Kallas (born April 6, 1943 in Tallinn ) is an Estonian writer .

life and work

Teet Kallas attended Tallinn Middle School from 1954 to 1962. He left school without a degree. From 1962 to 1965 he was a soldier in the Red Army in Palanga ( Lithuania ). Then began his writing and journalistic career.

In 1958, Kallas made his debut as a writer with short prose in Estonian newspapers. After a few shorter prose texts and youth literature, his first novel Nii palju päikest appeared in 1964 .

In 1965/66, Kallas was literary editor for Estonian television before he was employed by the editorial staff of the cultural magazine Looming from 1968 to 1970 . Then Kallas wrote for Estonian newspapers. Among other things, he was an editor at the newspapers Vaba Maa , Sõnumileht and Postimees .

In 1969, Kallas was arrested by the KGB who accused him of anti-Soviet propaganda. He spent a few months in prison. There he wrote his surrealist novel Heliseb-kõliseb ... , which was published in 1972. In 1972 he joined the Estonian Writers' Union. In the 1980s he was on the board of the Writers' Union.

Kallas' novel Niguliste (“ Nikolaikirche ”) was written between 1967 and 1972. It only appeared after the end of Soviet rule in Estonia in 1990 in a revised and expanded two-volume edition: “The novel is the typical description of a 'lost generation', theirs Loses dreams and ideals and self-destructs, and as such was a post-1968 document. Its non-appearance in the early 1970s, however, was more due to the indolence of the author than to the censorship, as the internal criticism was by no means devastating or insurmountable. Kallas just turned to other things, which is why the novel was left behind. "

Teet Kallas has also written several radio plays and screenplays for television films and series, and since 1996 also for the successful television series Õnne 13 ("Glücksstrasse 13"; corresponds roughly to the German " Lindenstrasse "). He also translated prose from Russian ( Wassili Aksjonow , Alexander Grin ) and English ( Stephen King ).

From 1979 to 1990 Kallas belonged to the CPSU . During the period of upheaval between the end of the Soviet Union and the regaining of Estonian independence, he was co-chairman of the parliamentary group of the democratic opposition movement Rahvarinne . Then Kallas was active in various political parties. He has been non-party since 1998.

Fiction works (selection)

• Nii palju päikest (novel, 1964)
• Puiesteede kummaline valgus (collection of short stories, 1968)
• Verine padi (collection of short stories, 1971)
• Varjud vikerkaarel ( Short stories for young people, 1972)
• Heliseb-kõliseb ... (novel, 1972)
• Neli vestlust armastused (Drama, 1972)
• Viimane mõrv (Collection of short stories, 1975)
• Õhtuvalgus (collection of short stories, 1977)
• Insener Paberiti juhtum (collection of short stories, 1977)
• Corrida (novel, 1979; filmed in 1981)
• Eiseni tänav (novel, 1979)
• Väikesed hobused särava vikerkaare all ( short stories, 1980)
• Hey, teie seal! (Collection of short stories, 1980)
• Muljeid kirjandusmaastikult (smaller writings from 1963–1981, 1982)
• Arvi kamin (collection of novels, 1982)
• Janu (novel, 1983)
• Öö neljandas mikrorajoonis (short stories and short stories from 1979–1983, 1985)
• Kes tõttab öisele rongile (satirical novel, 1988)
• Niguliste (novel in two volumes, 1990)
• Naine lõvi seljas (anthology of poetry from 1961–1989, 1990)
• Jää hüvasti, Mr. Shakespeare (satirical novel, 1995)
• Käsi (horror novel, 1997)

Private life

Teet Kallas is married to the Weimar- born journalist and translator Alla Kallas (* 1946). He is the older brother of the Estonian graphic artist and comic artist Olimar Kallas (1929–2006).

Teet Kallas lives in Laulasmaa on the Estonian Baltic coast .

Secondary literature

• Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , pp. 679, 707f., 726f. and 759

Web links

• Biography and Works (Estonian Literature Information Center)
• Works by Teet Kallas in the holdings of the Estonian National Library
• Teet Kallas in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 132
2. ↑ Cornelius Hasselblatt : History of Estonian Literature. Berlin, New York 2006, ISBN 3-11-018025-1 , pp. 726f.
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.