Andres-Allan Ellmann (born Andres-Allan Kurvits, better known by his pseudonym Andres Allan; 24 September 1965 – 22 July 1988) was an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n poet.

Life

Andres Allan was born in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

. He was the younger brother of artist . He attended primary school at Tallinn Secondary School No. 7 (now,

Tallinn English College Tallinn English College ( et, Tallinna Inglise Kolledž) is a co-educational general education school in Tallinn, Estonia with in depth education in the English language. It has elementary, middle and senior levels with students aged from 7 to 1 ...

) and secondary school at Tallinn Secondary School No. 2 (now,

Tallinn Secondary School of Science Tallinn Secondary School of Science ( et, Tallinna Reaalkool) is a gymnasium in Tallinn, Estonia. The school is a member of the G5 Union of Schools which comprises what some call the "elite Tallinn city centre schools": Tallinn English College, ...

), graduating in 1983. After secondary school, he studied at the Institute of Theology of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church. Andres Allan wrote poetry with a mystical-religious connotation. His poems have been published in the newspaper ''

Edasi ''Edasi'' (Estonian: ''Forward'') was a newspaper published in Tartu, Estonia. The paper was published with this name between 1948 and 1994. History and profile The paper was the successor of ''Postimees'' of which the name was changed to ''Eda ...

'' and in the magazines ''

Vikerkaar ''Vikerkaar'' ('rainbow' in Estonian) is an Estonian magazine published in Tallinn, Estonia by Kultuurileht SA. The magazine focuses on Estonian literature Estonian literature ( et, eesti kirjandus) is literature written in the Estonian lan ...

'', '' Kultuur ja Elu'', '' Looming'', ''Marm'', and ''Noorus''. He died after a fall from balcony in Tallinn in 1988, aged 22. It is uncertain whether the fall was a suicide or an accident. He was buried in

Pärnamäe Cemetery Pärnamäe is a village in Viimsi Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. (retrieved 27 July 2021) It's located about northeast of the centre of Tallinn, situated just north of Tallinn's subdistrict Mähe and east of the settlement Viimsi ...

in Tallinn.

Books

Poetry

* ''Urjamised'' (1992) * ''Öötrükid'', edited by Lauri Sommer (2009)

Family

Video game designer and novelist

Robert Kurvitz Robert Kurvitz (born 8 October 1984) is an Estonian novelist, video game designer, and musician. He was the lead designer of the 2019 video game Disco Elysium as a founding member of the ZA/UM cultural association and the eponymous video game de ...

is his nephew.

References

External links

Andres Allan at Estonian Writers' Online Dictionary
1965 births 1988 deaths Estonian male poets 20th-century Estonian poets Writers from Tallinn Burials at Pärnamäe Cemetery Deaths from falls {{Estonia-writer-stub