Dagmar Normet

Dagmar Normet ( to 1940 Dagmar Rubinstein, 1940-1945 estnisiert to: Dagmar Randa; born February 13, 1921 in Tallinn, † October 16, 2008 ibid ) was an Estonian writer and translator.

Life and work

Dagmar Normet attended the German School and the English Private College in Tallinn. As a Jew, she fled in 1941 before the German occupation of Estonia into the Soviet Union. She studied 1942/43, at the Pedagogical Institute of Russian Studies Ulyanovsk, then at the Central Institute of Physical Culture in Moscow Sport. She graduated in 1945 as a physical education teacher at the State University of Tartu. She initially worked as a teacher, but debuted in 1948 as a writer. In 1956 they established himself as a freelance writer in Tallinn.

Dagmar Normet wrote during her literary career numerous children's books, fairy tales, plays, librettos for operettas and the screenplay for the film Vallatud kurvid (together with Sandor Stern ). She was one of the most respected writers of the Estonian SSR. She also translated from the Russian and German. They popularized especially the work Mira praise and Christine Nöstlinger in Estonia.

Dagmar Normet was married from 1945 to 1960 with the Estonian composer Leo Normet ( 1922-1995 ). Your son is the theater director Ingo Normet (* 1946), her daughter, the journalist Haldi Normet (* 1953). Dagmar Normet lies on the forest cemetery of Tallinn buried.

Works (selection)

• Maalesõit (1948 )
• Me ehitame maja (1957 )
• Igaüks otsib armas do ( Drama, 1968)
• Vöödiline hobune ( Drama, 1968)
• Lo Tui (1973 )
• Delfiinia ( horror story, 1975)
• Suur saladus ( radio play, 1977)
• Une - Mati, Mati Päris - yes Tups ( contemporary fairytale, 1979)
• Kümme ust (1985 )
• Une - Mati rannakülas (1986 )
• Naeratuste Vikerkaar (1992 )
• Lõvi yes lohe ( children's novel, 1993)
• Avanevad uksed ( memoir, 2001)
• Ainult ... Võti taskus ( memoir, 2004)