The last bit is always the most exciting. After a nice conversation with festival presenter Francis Broekhuizen, chief guest Susan Neiman suddenly joined us. It was nearing twelve, quite a bit of wine had actually already been poured into presenter and guest, but still. You suddenly find yourself with a great philosopher and writer talking about David Bowie.
This was the last session at Winternachten 2016. This series of evenings came about with the fantabulous help of A Quattro Mani colleagues Vivian de Gier and Mark Brester.
0′:00″: Francis Broekhuizen on Winternachten
Flamboyant person. Enthusiastic and inspired.
9′:00″: Vivian de Gier on everything
Roving Reporter Vivian de Gier keeps us updated on the programme.
10′:41″: Susan Neiman on Bowie (among other things)
We kind of fall into the middle of a conversation. It's also about Shakespeare. And Dylan. But then she starts talking about Bowie, who died a week before. And then it gets really interesting. Because then it becomes about why the entire artistic and academic elite is so totally broken by his death. She has a wonderful story about dark car ride from Berlin to Amsterdam, Christmas 1982, and how the cassette tape of Young Americans suddenly struck her in the heart.
Do we still want to know who that young Amsterdam journalist was, in whose car without heating she heard that song.
23′:39″: Mira Feticu on performance
After which I also spoke to Romanian writer Mira Feticu about how you do it now: being a writer at a festival. "The Hague is a Stopcontact. We have absolutely nothing to add to that.
31′:10″: Jurgen Maas on silence
He is the publisher of several books that fit exactly into the programme of Winternachten. Again, an inspired man. The whole festival is full of that.
After that, everything was silent and no one said anything.
Do we all still want to know who that journalist with broken heating was
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