Jowi Schmitz writes (children's) books, articles, film scripts and short stories. Her YA book Weg (Road) won the Dioraphte Literatuur prize, or prize for best Young People's Book of the Year, her children's book Ik heet Olivia en daar kan ik ook niks aan doen (I can't do anything about it either) (Lemniscaat) will soon be filmed. She enjoys writing interdisciplinary: between fact and fiction. But then real. Apart from the film script, she is currently working on several articles, a documentary and a new children's book (8+) with the working title: Nachtwachter.
'The first Dutch WhatsApp thriller' was launched at the end of January. For five days, a select group of screen readers could follow this 'real time' story. Writers Jowi Schmitz and Louis Stiller were among them, app'ing with each other about this new form of storytelling. Sunday Louis > Suddenly a whole pile of names in my whatsapp (including 'paps' and 'mums'). Jowi > I give them...
It takes guts: walking down Rotterdam's Kruiskade with a big wooden cross and shouting "Mason was a fish!" shouting. The drug-addicted residents of St Paul's Church, the dishwashers at Chinese restaurants and waiting passengers at the tram stop look on in bewilderment. Sandro Lima shouts lyrics about Mason the saviour like a possessed religious maniac. Moments before, we are at...
The teachers recite it, a whistle sounds. The audience mimics it, like wax in the hands of the five Chinese on stage. Anyone who walks into the performance C'est du Chinois walks into a Mandarin language lesson. An effective language lesson besides, you understand the two small families-they have only been in the country for four months but plan to...
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