Hella Wuolijoki

Ella Maria Murrik, known as Hella Wuolijoki, was born in Helme, Estonia, on 22 July 1886. She came from Tartu to study in Helsinki in 1904, was in 1908 the first Estonian woman to graduate from the university, married the socialist Sulo Wuolijoki the same year, then became a businesswoman and kept a left-wing salon. She worked with Brecht on the first version of Mr Puntila and His Man Matti. Imprisoned from 1943 to 1944 for having hidden a Soviet parachutist, she was afterwards a member of parliament and headed the national radio from 1945 to 1949. She died in Helsinki on 2 February 1954.

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• TheatreNiskavuoren naisetHella Wuolijoki · 1936not translated into EnglishLiterature