{"id":960,"date":"2024-04-03T23:40:35","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/kool\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T00:08:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T21:08:35","slug":"kool","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/ewod\/k\/kool\/","title":{"rendered":"Ott Kool"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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\n\tOtt Kool (real name Otto Kool; 12 November 1930 \u2013 28 August 2000) was a radio journalist and playwright.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKool was born in Virumaa County and attended Malla primary school and Kohtla-J\u00e4rve industrial school and evening secondary school.\u00a0 Initially, he worked in industry, in the 1960s became a journalist, working at first for the magazine Noorus<\/em>, afterwards as a correspondent of the Estonian Radio. He was a member of the Estonian Association of Journalists and the Estonian Writers\u2019 Union. Kool was awarded the title of Merited Journalist of the Estonian SSR (1988), the big nature conservation badge of the Estonian SSR and the Karl Ernst von Baer Medal (1988). He is buried in Kunda cemetery.\n<\/p>\n

\n\tKool wrote mainly on the themes of North Estonian agriculture and environment, attaching importance to nature conservation. From the late 1950s, he began to publish literary reportage and short prose in the press, which have been issued in the collections Adraseadmise aegu<\/em> (\u2018\u2019Time to Put One\u2019s Hand to the Plough\u2019, 1962) and T\u00e4hed allikas<\/em> (\u2018Stars at Headspring\u2019, 1967). The latter received the literary prize of the Eduard Vilde<\/a> collective farm (1968).\n<\/p>\n

\n\tWith the play Lilled professorile<\/em> (\u2018Flowers for the Professor\u2019, staged at Rakvere theatre in 1971, published in the collection Valik n\u00e4idendeid<\/em> \u2013 \u2018Selected Plays\u2019 \u2013 in 1973) playwriting takes the central place in Kool\u2019s creation. Here, too, the essential place belongs to the problems of rural life and collective farms, e.g., in the dilogy Maarja maal<\/em> (\u2018Maarja in the Country\u2019, staged at P\u00e4rnu theatre in 1975) and Kes paljajalu k\u00e4ib<\/em> (\u2018Who\u2019s Walking Barefoot\u2019, staged at P\u00e4rnu theatre in 1981). Musta kassi \u00f6\u00f6sel ei n\u00e4e<\/em> (\u2018You Can\u2019t See a Black Cat at Night\u2019, staged at P\u00e4rnu theatre 1984, published in print in the collection Eesti n\u00e4idendeid 1980\u20131984<\/em> \u2013 \u2018Estonian Plays 1980\u20131984\u2019 \u2013 in 1987) gained great popularity among the audience. It is a variation on the conflict between rural and urban attitudes to life as known from A. H. Tammsaare<\/a>\u2019s books.\u00a0 In the play Reporterid<\/em> (\u2018Reporters\u2019, staged at P\u00e4rnu theatre in 1987), Kool depicted journalists\u2019 work.\n<\/p>\n

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

Books in Estonian<\/span><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tShort prose<\/em><\/strong>
Adraseadmise aegu<\/strong>: olukirjeldused ja jutustused. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus, 1962, 252 lk
T\u00e4hed allikas<\/strong>. Tallinn: Eesti Raamat, 1967, 272 lk\n<\/p>\n

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