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Fleur Jansen

Fleur Jansen (1976) writes for film, television and theatre and is a compiler of collections of stories from around 1900. She wrote her first texts for Entertainment Experience, a film project led by director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Robert Alberdingk Thijm. After winning a screenplay award and the project an Emmy Award, she attended two master classes in the US. Recently, she wrote a TV miniseries with a grant and took a seat on the editorial board of Mediafonds' final festival. In her spare time, she works for the corporate world where she deploys 20 years of (international) work experience. Fleur Jansen studied Policy Studies at the UvA (1999) and occasionally writes for Cultuurpers.

Peppie & UBO: privacy concerns for business leaders and directors. (Why anti-money laundering policies can wreak havoc on culture)

by Fleur Jansen
2 April 201930 March 2022
7 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Our government leaders, united in Europe, have come up with something to combat the masking of corruption. It is called UBO register. The Netherlands is also going to introduce it in the near future. This has consequences, also for cultural foundations and associations. Because every organisation has to determine who is a UBO (Ultimate Beneficial Owner). This causes some complications. In the cultural sector, it is...

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Theatre from the sofa: from the South Bank of the Thames to Broadway in one evening.

by Fleur Jansen
12 April 201814 September 2018
6 min read
INTERNET, PODCAST, PODIUM ART, THEATER

For many a theatre lover, watching from the bench will be swearing in church. The atmosphere in the theatre and direct contact is missing. Totally true, and yet the advantages of sitting comfortably, watching when you want, subtitles and the on-demand W.C. break are also worth something. While enjoying a fireside chat, you're not looking at the back of anyone's head....

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'Actually, the romantic relic Platonov has been snowed in for about a hundred years. And now he comes back, and he walked into the wrong room'

by Fleur Jansen
6 March 201829 March 2022
12 min read
For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Platonov, Theater Utrecht's latest show, premiered on 2 March and is an instant hit: rave reviews in all major newspapers. Artistic director and director Thibaud Delpeut bases his version of this archetypal Chekhov play on the translation made by actor Jacob Derwig in 2000 for 't Barre Land. This equally legendary play fitted...

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Playwrights and cultural exploration (3): 'Contemporary musical, a new tradition among writers?'

by Fleur Jansen
11 February 201829 March 2022
8 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, LITERARY, PODIUM ART

On 25 January 2018, the Musical Awards were presented with, as we are used to, many translated reruns and calibrated repertoire. Also notable was the appreciation for new Dutch work. Many a writer will have been cheering on the sofa when 'Was Getekend, Annie M.G. Schmidt' won the awards. Does that bode well for the future? Can today's (small)...

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Playwrights and cultural exploration (2) Sophie Kassies: 'A pool of plays that don't find an audience is an erosion of the profession'

by Fleur Jansen
4 February 201829 March 2022
12 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, PODIUM ART, THEATER

The previous cultural exploration among playwrights gives cause for further exploration. From the earlier article, we take away that further privatisation only partially captures public money and objectives. See also from elevation ideals to efficiency thinking. We also take away that a public as all-important leads to one-sided popular culture, entertainment and false competition with the free circuit. It all has very little...

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Pieter Bruegel de Oude, Nederlandse spreekwoorden, olieverf op paneel, 1559, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

'Playwriting is flourishing,' says the Language Union. Time for an exploration among playwrights.

by Fleur Jansen
10 December 201714 September 2018
7 min read
ACTUAL, PODIUM ART, THEATER

On 6 December 2017, the Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs was awarded to poet, writer and playwright Ilja Leonard Pfeiffer. With his play about Bram Moszkowitcz, titled 'The lawyer', he was the preferred original work among 47 submissions. According to the Taalunie, Pfeiffer's play 'balances magisterially on the fine line between tragedy and comedy, realistic drama and meta-thought, slapstick and emotion....

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