Linnar Priimägi (born 29 March 1954) is an

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art historian, journalist, literary critic, poet and actor from

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. He graduated from

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(master's thesis) and

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(doctoral thesis). Priimägi is a

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at Tallinn University. He has taught German language, art history and theory of literary criticism at the University of Tartu, history of philosophy at the

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, and cultural history at Tallinn Pedagogical University and Tallinn University.

Filmography

* 1973 (role: class organizer) * 1980 (role: baron Uexküll) * 1997 (role: Romberg, German ambassador) * 2007 (role: philologist Linnar) * 2009 (role: Linnar Priimägi) * 2017 ''November'' (role: kratt Joosep (voice))

References

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