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Famous life · 1871

Kitzberg's Mulgi home at Pöögle

Writer August Kitzberg was born in December 1855 in Laatre parish. He spent his childhood at Niitsaadu in Saate village, Penuja parish, where the family lived from 1857 to 1871. After conflicts with the Penuja landlord and for economic reasons, the Kitzbergs moved to Pöögle-Maie in Karksi parish, where the Kitzberg museum stands today. Later he worked in Viljandi, Courland and Riga and finally settled in Tartu, where a plaque marks the wooden house he lived in from 1912 to 1927. His plays and stories are full of the people of the Mulgi country, from cottagers to manor lords. His tragedy Libahunt (The Werewolf, 1911) became a film in 1968.

Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today

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Kirjanik August Kitzberg sündis 1855. aasta detsembris Laatre vallas. Lapsepõlve veetis ta Penuja valla Saate külas Niitsaadul, kus pere elas aastatel 1857 kuni 1871. Vastuolude tõttu Penuja mõisnikuga ja majanduslikel põhjustel kolisid Kitzbergid Karksi kihelkonda Pöögle-Maiele, kus praegu asub Kitzbergi muuseum. Hiljem töötas ta Viljandis, Kuramaal ja Riias ning asus lõpuks Tartusse, kus mälestustahvel märgib puitelamut, milles ta elas aastatel 1912 kuni 1927. Tema näidendites ja jutustustes on Mulgimaa inimtüübid saunikust mõisnikuni. Tema tragöödia „Libahunt“ (1911) jõudis 1968. aastal ka filmilinale.

Map of the area around Kitzberg's Mulgi home at Pöögle
58.11386° N, 25.50394° E · Map: Maa- ja Ruumiamet

Source: Estonian Wikipedia: August Kitzberg. ↗

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