August Kitzberg
{{short description|Estonian writer}}
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August Kitzberg ({{osd|29 December|1855|17 December}} in Laatre Parish, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 10 October 1927 in Tartu) was an Estonian writer.
Life
Until 1863, August Kitzberg was known as August Kits. He grew up in Niitsaadu farmstead in Penuja village, Abja Parish (1857–1871), where his brother, Jaak Kits, was a schoolteacher. He worked for a time in Viljandi and present-day Latvia before moving to Tartu in 1901, where he worked as a manager of the newspaper Postimees.{{Cite book |last=Polet |first=Jean-Claude |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eZjXABt_x9wC&dq=August+Kitzberg&pg=PA232 |title=Auteurs européens du premier XXe siècle: 1. De la drôle de paix à la drôle de guerre (1923-1939) |date=2002 |publisher=De Boeck Supérieur |isbn=978-2-8041-3580-5 |language=fr}}
His early works consisted of comedies and humorous stories of village life. In Tartu, Kitzberg began working with Karl Menning at the Vanemuine Theatre, and his plays developed a component of social criticism.{{Cite book |last=Raun |first=Toivo U. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YQ1NRJlUrwkC&dq=August+Kitzberg&pg=PA92 |title=Estonia and the Estonians: Second Edition, Updated |date=2002-02-01 |publisher=Hoover Press |isbn=978-0-8179-2853-7 |language=en}}
There is a monument and museum dedicated to Kitzberg in Karksi-Nuia.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mulgi.karksi.ee/?museums |title=Karksi museums website |access-date=2012-09-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070627112503/http://www.mulgi.karksi.ee/?museums |archive-date=2007-06-27 |url-status=dead }} His play, Tuulte pöörises, was chosen for the opening play of the Rakvere Theatre in 1940.
Works
=Plays=
- Punga–Mart ja Uba-Kaarel (1894)
- Sauna Antsu "oma" hobune (1894)
- Püve Peetri "riukad" (1897)
- Veli Henn (1901)
- Räime Reeda 10 kopikat (1903)
- Rätsep Õhk (1903)
- Hennu Veli (1904)
- Tuulte pöörises (1906)
- Libahunt (1911/12, filmed in 1968); The Ballet Tiina by Lydia Auster is based on this work
- Kaval-Ants ja Vanapagan (1912)
- Kauka jumal (1915)
- Kosjasõit (1915)
- Enne kukke ja koitu (1919)
- Laurits (1919)
- Onu Zipul (1922)
- Neetud talu (1923)
=Stories=
- Maimu (1889)
- Külajutud (Village Stories, five volumes, 1915–1921)
- Tiibuse Jaak Tiibuse kirjavahetus (two volumes, 1920/1923, under pseudonym Tiibuse Jaak Tiibus)
=Memoir=
- Vana "tuuletallaja" noorpõlve mälestused (two volumes, 1924/25)
References
{{Commons category|August Kitzberg}}
{{reflist}}
- {{cite book |title=August Kitzberg |last=Alttoa |first=Villem |year=1960 |publisher=Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus |location=Tallinn|language=Estonian}}
- [http://www.litterature-estonienne.com/Kitzberg.html August Kitzberg biographical sketch] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141225013740/http://www.litterature-estonienne.com/Kitzberg.html |date=2014-12-25 }} {{in lang|fr}}
External links
- {{Gutenberg author | id=42639| name=August Kitzberg}}
{{Authority control}}
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Category:People from Mulgi Parish
Category:People from Valmiera county
Category:Writers from the Russian Empire
Category:19th-century Estonian writers
Category:Estonian male short story writers
Category:Estonian dramatists and playwrights
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