Juhan Viiding [SEP] manner of death
the youngest of four children and the only boy—his older sisters were Reet, Anni and Mari. He was an intellectually precocious and restless youngster. Between the years 1968 and 1972, Viiding studied theatre and stagecraft at the Tallinn Conservatoire.
Juhan Viiding's daughter Elo is a poet as well.
On 21 February 1995 Juhan Viiding committed suicide by cutting his wrists in Rapla.
Dramatic career.
Upon his graduation in 1972, Viiding worked in Tallinn's National Drama Theatre (now the Estonian Drama Theatre)
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During the last ten years of his life Viiding staged many plays. His favourite playwrights were Samuel Beckett, Ionesco, and Betsuyaku.
Viiding worked at the Estonian Drama Theatre until his death on 21 February 1995.
Literary career.
Juhan Viiding who until 1975 published his poetry under the pseudonym Jüri Üdi (George Marrow) was the brightest talent to appear in Estonian poetry in the 1970s. Unlike the major poets of the immediately preceding generation (Rummo, Kaplinski, Runnel), he never wrote essays or