August Kitzberg

August Kitzberg (born 17 Dezemberjul / December 29 1855greg Farm Puldre, then Polde village, community Laatre, parish Halliste in Pärnu County, .. † October 10, 1927 in Tartu ) was an Estonian writer.

Life

August Kitzberg was born in impoverished circumstances. He lived from 1857 to 1881 in the village Penuja (now rural community Abja, Viljandi County ), where his brother Jaak kits was a schoolteacher. Later they moved to the farm in the village of Maie Pöögle (Town Karksi ), where today the Kitzberg Museum.

August Kitzberg worked from 1872 as a village and court clerk in Viljandi County, from 1894 as a clerk in a factory in Latvia and settled in 1901 in Tartu down. He was there managing the Postimees and playwright at the theater Vanemuine.

August Kitzberg was active from 1912 for the Noor - Eesti movement, whose treasurer he was after the official registration. Kitzberg was first Honorary Member of the Estonian Writers' Union was founded in 1922. A bronze monument in Karksi - Nuia by Jaak Soans reminded of him.

Work

August Kitzberg held in the 1870s with translation work on water. He began his literary career as a writer of comedies and humorous stories village. Funny characters of his rural area Mulgimaa find themselves immortalized in his works.

First, his plays were intended for amateur theater at local village platforms. As in Estonia, more and more out formed a professional theater culture, even Kitzberg was a demanding playwright. He worked closely with the director Karl Menning, who had founded in 1905 in the theater Vanemuine a professional theater company.

August Kitzberg is considered one of the founders of the Estonian drama. Especially the tragedy Libahunt (1912 ) caused a sensation. His second big success was the drama Caucasus JUMAL 1915.

Kitzberg addressed in its literature, among others, material inequality, the arrogance of the powerful and the small and large people's weaknesses. In his works finds the rural life in Estonia at that time the most suitable adjectives descriptions.

In addition Kitzberg wrote some short stories, plays for children, memories and feuilletonist essays, the latter partly under the pseudonym Tiibuse Jaak.