{"id":1943,"date":"2024-04-03T23:42:13","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/schaper\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:05:49","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:05:49","slug":"schaper","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/s\/schaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Edzard Schaper"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNovels<\/span><\/strong><\/a> \"Edzard<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort stories<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tNon-fiction<\/span><\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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

\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEdzard Schaper <\/span>(Ernst Edzard Helmuth Schaper, 30. IX 1908 \u2013 29. I 1984) was a German prose writer and commentator who lived in and wrote extensively about Estonia.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSchaper was born at Ostrowo (then in Germany, now on Polish territory), and studied at a Gymnasium and Conservatorium in Hanover. He worked in theatres in various places. After meeting and marrying a German girl from Tallinn, he lived in Estonia from 1930 to 1940 as journalist and writer. After the occupation of Estonia in 1940 he fled to Finland, thereafter moving to Sweden in 1944 and in 1947 to Switzerland, where he lived until his death. He was, among other distinctions, an honorary doctor of the University of Freiburg; he won the gold medal of the Stockholm Estonian National Foundation, the Gottfried Keller award (1967), the Konrad Adenauer prize for literature (1969) and the Grand Cross of Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (1978). He is buried in Glis cemetery. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tHis first novels appeared in the late twenties: Der letzte Gast <\/i>(1927) and Die Bekenntnisse des F\u00f6rsters Patrik Doyle <\/i>(1928). Greater recognition was paid to his novels on Estonian themes in the thirties: Die Insel T\u00fctarsaar <\/i>(1934), which portrays one man\u2019s inner development, Die sterbende Kirche <\/i>(1935), which deals with the Russian Orthodox faith in Estonia, and Der Henker <\/i>(\u2018The Hangman\u2019, 1940), which is regarded as Schaper\u2019s greatest work, and which appeared in revised form under the name Sie m\u00e4hten gewappnet die Saaten <\/i>in 1956. The novel deals with the revolutionary events of 1905 in Estonia, presenting them primarily not through the eyes of the rebels but through those of the representatives of Russian imperial power. Among those leading the punitive expeditions were some Baltic Germans, of whom the most notorious was Karl von Sivers, who may be regarded as the prototype of Count Ovelacker, the main protagonist of the novel. A remorseless punisher becomes an estate owner with the nickname Hangman, who conveys a sense of guilt which is resolved in Christian forgiveness. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile living in Switzerland, Schaper embarked on a productive new period, during which his novels on Estonian themes, among others, appeared: Der Gouverneur oder Der gl\u00fcckselige Schuldner <\/i>(1954), at the centre of which is the love story of a Swedish officer against the background of the Great Northern War; Der Aufruhr des Gerechten <\/i>(1963), which deals with the problems of the Estonian Catholic church before the events of 1940; and Epitaph f\u00fcr einen Patrioten <\/i>(1968), which deals with the situation in Paldiski naval base after the 1939 treaty on the bases.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tEstonia played a significant part in Schaper\u2019s literary development; Estonian subject matter has a vital place in his output. Estonia\u2019s fate during and after the Second World War and the situation of the Baltic countries more generally was one of the themes that he dealt with in both fiction and non-fiction. He was one of those who clearly came out in favour of the Baltic countries\u2019 independence, discussing it in essays which appeared in book form as the collection Untergang und Verwandlung <\/i>(1952). In his works Schaper deals with the intellectual, religious and political turning-points in Europe. The Christian religious background, and the symbolism of a multiple boundary have an important place in his work.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tA. K. (Translated by C. M.)<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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

\n\tNovels<\/b><\/em>
Timukas<\/strong>. Tallinn: Huma, 2002, 703 lk. [2. tr\u00fckk: 2009.]<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort prose<\/b><\/em>
T\u00e4ht piiri kohal<\/strong>: j\u00f5ululegend. Rooma: Maarjamaa, 1964, 60 lk.
Maailma l\u00f5pp Hiiumaal<\/strong>. Tallinn: Perioodika (Loomingu Raamatukogu), 1996, 64 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tChildren\u2019s literature<\/b><\/em>
Legend neljandast kuningast<\/strong>. Tallinn: Kunst, 1995, 79 lk.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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