De roman Jij zegt het, waarin Connie Palmen een stem geeft aan Ted Hughes, won gisteren de Libris Literatuurprijs. Daar kun je uiteraard van alles van vinden. Misschien was een ander boek beter. Smaken en jury’s verschillen. In de op feiten en dagboeken, brieven en biografieën gebaseerde roman geeft Palmen de dichter Ted Hughes een weerwoord. Een weerwoord op alle…
In een nieuw flimpje, hieronder te zien, richten de Johava’s zich op kinderen. En maken daarbij gebruik van bedenkelijke tactiek. Natuurlijk: de praktijken van Jehova’s Getuigen zijn over het algemeen vriendelijk, hen ‘ook een fijne dag’ wensen en de deur sluiten is doorgaans voldoende. Dat de Getuigen hun voet klem zetten tussen de deur is inmiddels ook cliché en vooroordeel.…
Some time ago, I discussed with broadcaster MAX the idea of phoning random residents in music districts to ask what they thought of 'their' composer. Would they spontaneously burst into an ode to, say, Carolus Hacquart, Cornelis Schuyt or Henriëtte Bosmans? Unfortunately, this playful plan never materialised, but lo and behold: a number of musicians joined hands....
Ze is klein en tenger, maar zo strijdbaar als een (Tamil) tijger. De Indiase schrijfster Meena Kandasamy (1984) breekt het liefst met alle conventies, en het woord is daarbij haar wapen. Geen Bollywood Wie op basis van het omslag en de auteursnaam denkt dat De zigeunergodin een zoetsappige ‘Bollywoodroman’ is, komt bedrogen uit. Meena Kandasamy’s roman gaat over een waargebeurde…
Jan Gielkens has won the Filter Translation Prize 2016 for his translation of The Words of Grimm by Günter Grass. The prize of ten thousand euros rewards the most exceptional translation achievement of the past year. Grass's novel, published last year by Meulenhoff, places high demands on the reader and the translator, the jury felt. 'Deftly navigates Gielkens'...
The past and future of the Netherlands Reisopera are dominated by money worries. Nicolas Mansfield, director, during the season presentation on 20 April last in the foyer of Theatre Carré, stressed not only the necessity of a national opera company's existence but, above all, the necessary quality requirements to keep attracting audiences. And quality cannot exist without decent...
In times of Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, what power does the novel still have? Every so often, fiction is declared dead, but the International Literature Fesitval Utrecht (formerly City2Cities), which takes place this coming weekend in the former post office on the Neude, wants to show that novel pessimists are completely wrong. Nine highlights from the programme. PJ Harvey The Literature House, like last...
At Transatlantic danst Het Nationale Ballet tijdens het Holland Festival werken van vier choreografen. Ze zijn man. Ze zijn blank. Ze maken klassiek ballet. Waarom deze keuze?
Writing cost him his marriage, he is being shadowed by the secret service and risks being arrested in Angola. But José Eduardo Agualusa, who has a chance of winning the 2016 Man Booker International Prize with his new novel A General Theory of Forgetting, does not hesitate to put down his pen. 'I won't let myself...
There are outside opportunities to be taken advantage of. Egon Schiele's Portrait of Edith by his wife Edith will be joined by Gustav Klimt's Judith I from Vienna for a one-off at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. Two fascinating works, both very rarely on loan. And although the artists knew and appreciated each other, there is almost no greater difference imaginable than...
Mothers and daughters: is there a closer bond? Their lives are an extension of each other. Mother treads the same path her daughter will later follow. She is a friend, to whom one can always fall back. But underneath, a suffocating power struggle rages, in which they hold and attack each other. Jealousy and competition gnaw at the domestic idyll. Escape is impossible. It is a...
Things have been rumbling in the film world for some time: Why is the silver screen so, er, white? And where are all the women anyway? #OscarsSoWhite but also #OscarIsADude! Many people in the industry have already expressed their displeasure at this. At the previous Oscar ceremony, actresses aimed their arrows at equal pay, or rather, the lack of it. This year, many an African-American actor and...
The Jugendstil curls of the famous 'salad oil poster' adorn the logo of the major Toorop exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. And while this choice is recognisable and appealing, there is something to be said against it. After all, the museum is so keen to show other sides of Toorop. And there are surprisingly many of them. The Gemeentemuseum has a history with...
The raw in Something Raw can mean all sorts of things. The first thought might be something rough, as in the effect of sandpaper on skin or the havoc left by an elephant in the china shop. But rough is a derivative meaning. Raw first of all means unprocessed and fresh. There is a certain hope in the combination of rough and raw: artists who like...
Mozart's Così fan tutte performed by the Nederlandse Reisopera on 12 February at the Theatre Carré, is far from playful. Xander Straat's direction has many pretensions that deliver little substance and a static picture. The momentum of this opera giocoso is in the music itself and in the formidable voices of the young soloists. Unreliable Women Così fan tutte, or The School...
In the flat where he is temporarily staying, David Vann (1966) lounges on the couch a little, tired from hustle and bustle and late nights as a result of phone calls to the other side of the world. Not too long ago, Vann's marriage stranded, not without a fight, and the legal settlement is still ongoing. He sighs: 'It was the worst...
Baroque specialist and conductor Andrea Marcon, together with his La Cetra Barockorchester, manages to weave a fine lace work in Vivaldi's opera seria Catone in Utica (1678 - 1741), on which, among others, German soprano Anett Fritsch, Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg and striking Italian mezzo-soprano Francesca Ascioti shine like precious jewels. The international cast of Catone in Utica...
Sexual abuse, alienation and the emptiness of existence are the ingredients of Motel Mist by Thai debutant Prabda Yoon. A #IFFR Tiger Award worthy film. In tightly directed storylines, Yoon gently critiques Thailand's social and political climate. For instance, Motel Mist refers to the well-known paedophile sex tourism. Moreover, Yoon makes an attempt to capture the emptiness and alienation...
Festival director Bero Beyer found it difficult to choose eight films to nominate for the Hivos Tiger Award. After all, what makes a film special? According to Beyer, Elisabeth Subrin's film drama A Woman, a Part evokes a sense of nostalgia and is also outspoken, bold and above all human. The #IFFR check by Culture Press is that A Woman, a...
With the revamped, more compact Tiger competition, IFFR aims to show what the festival stands for. Nurturing new talent with a voice of its own. Is the Tiger roaring again?
Elke toneelvoorstelling, film, of concert heeft wel een scene die je raakt. Een moment dat ontroering, verbazing, of wellicht afschuw oproept. Ook in de James Bond film Spectre van regisseur Sam Mendes zit zo’n moment dat je bijblijft. Het gaat om het fragment waarin klassieke muziek, te weten de aria Cum dederit uit het Nisi Dominus RV 608 van Antonio Vivaldi…
Three and a half hours of streaming video from a seating area at The Hague's Winternachten festival. I won't blame you if you didn't follow everything. I wasn't quite there myself at the end. Still, it was a success. If only because it hasn't been done here in the country before. Blab is so new that...
Technisch is hij natuurlijk al een keer opgestaan uit de dood. Immers, bij een open hartoperatie (2004) wordt je hart stilgelegd. Vroeger was je dan dood. Nu kom je met een nieuw leven terug uit narcose. Niet vreemd dus, dat het 69-jarige popcultuurfenomeen David Bowie zijn huidige leven aan Lazarus ophangt: een muziektheaterstuk, een song, genoemd naar de bijbelse zwerver…
Sinds de financiële crisis en de daaropvolgende bezuinigingen wordt de cultuursector gedwongen zichzelf te legitimeren. Met wetenschappelijk onderzoek moet het maatschappelijk resultaat van kunst en cultuur aan worden getoond. Om de culturele sector daarin bij te staan is het Landelijk Kennisinstituut voor Cultuureducatie en Amateurkunst (LKCA) daarom de zogeheten ‘feitenfabriek’ begonnen, een cijfermatig overzicht van de kerngegevens en ontwikkelingen in de…
A young Afghan who dreams of a career as a rapper turns out to be the ideal protagonist for an appealing documentary. Sonita is winner of the IDFA audience award.
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