{"id":1314,"date":"2024-04-03T23:41:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/lennuk\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:07:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:07:35","slug":"lennuk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/l\/lennuk\/","title":{"rendered":"Urmas Lennuk"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPlays<\/span><\/strong><\/a> <\/span><\/strong>\"Urmas<\/a><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

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Urmas Lennuk (born 16 October 1971) is a playwright, dramaturge and scriptwriter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLennuk attended school at Tamsalu, studied Estonian language and literature in Tallinn Pedagogical Institute and theatrical direction at the Department of Drama at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre. He has worked as artistic director of Tamsalu community centre, teacher of Estonian language and literature, dramaturge of the Vanemuine Theatre, lecturer at the Department of Drama at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre, and director, dramaturge and playwright at Rakvere Theatre. Member of the Estonian Union of Directors and Dramaturges from 2001.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLennuk was one of the most remarkable playwrights in the 00s, attracting already attention with his debut play Rongid siin enam ei\u2026 <\/i>(\u2018Trains Don\u2019t Run Here Anymore\u2026\u2019) which premiered at the Ugala Theatre in Viljandi in 2002 and was published in the collection \u00dckskord Eestimaal<\/i> (\u2018Once in Estonia\u2019, 2015) together with the plays P\u00e4eva l\u00f5pus<\/i> (\u2018At the End of the Day\u2019) and Ema oli \u00f5unapuu<\/i> (\u2018Mother was an Appletree\u2019). The same characters appear in all the three plays; the central place among them belongs to two brothers and the story of their home village. Against the background of family history, Lennuk maps the fading village life in present-day Estonia and the constantly increasing problems of peripheral regions. He does it with human warmth and mild humour. Rongid siin enam ei\u2026<\/i> received the first prize at the playwriting competition of the Estonian Theatre Agency.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tLennuk has dramatised the texts of several authors, particularly noteworthy among them are the dramatisations of A. H. Tammsaare\u2019s works which have been staged at several Estonian theatres, e.g., K\u00f5rboja perenaine<\/i> (\u2018The Mistress of K\u00f5rboja\u2019) based on K\u00f5rboja peremees<\/i> (\u2018The Master of K\u00f5rboja\u2019), Wargam\u00e4e Wabariik<\/i> (\u2018The Republic of Wargam\u00e4e\u2019) based on T\u00f5de ja \u00f5igus<\/i> (\u2018Truth and Justice\u2019), Vargam\u00e4e voonake<\/i> (\u2018The Lamb of Vargam\u00e4e\u2019), and children\u2019s play Vai-vai vaene Vargam\u00e4e<\/i> (\u2018Ow, Ow, Poor Vargam\u00e4e\u2019). For children, Lennuk has written a story explaining the principles of nutrition in a fairytale form \u2013 S\u00f6\u00f6 \u00e4ra s\u00f6\u00f6<\/i> (\u2018Eat, Don\u2019t Eat\u2019, 2007).<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom 2011\u20132014, Lennuk was the scriptwriter of \u00d5nne 13<\/i> (\u201813 Happiness Street\u2019), the oldest and most popular Estonian television serial.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tIn 2001, Lennuk won a special mention at the playwriting competition of the Estonian Theatre Agency for his play Liivakellade parandaja<\/i> (\u2018Repairer of Hourglasses\u2019), in 2003 he received the first prize for his play Boob teab<\/i> (\u2018Boob Knows\u2019) and an encouragement prize for the play Kadunud kindapood<\/i> (\u2018Lost Shoeshop\u2019). In addition, he has received (in cooperation with Eili Neuhaus), the special prize of the Estonian Theatre Union drama jury for the staging of Mtsenski maakonna leedi Macbeth<\/i> (\u2018Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk\u2019) in 2010 and in 2011 the director\u2019s prize for Vargam\u00e4e varjus<\/i> (\u2018In the Shadow of Vargam\u00e4e\u2019). In 2015, the collection of plays \u00dckskord Eestimaal<\/i> (\u2018Once in Estonia\u2019) received the Literature Endowment Annual Award. In 2017 he received the colleague\u2019s prize of Rakvere Theatre as the best director and in 2019 the Oskar Luts humour prize. <\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA. K. (Translated by I. A.)<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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\n\tBooks in Estonian<\/b><\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPlays<\/b><\/em>
\u00dckskord Eestimaal: n\u00e4idenditriloogia<\/strong>. Viljandi: Ugala teater, 2015, 291 lk.<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tChildren\u2019s literature<\/b><\/em>
S\u00f6\u00f6 \u00e4ra s\u00f6\u00f6<\/strong>. Tallinn: Varrak, 2007, 145 lk<\/font><\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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