Watch, Listen, Read: Winternachten 2006
Reading Club Live
Winternachten 2006
The NRC Handelsblad Reading Club performs live at Winternachten. Four employees and editors of this paper, Abdelkader Benali, Elsbeth Etty, Bas Heijne and Pieter Steinz (panel chairman) discuss Salman Rushdie's Shalimar the clown . Each one of …
read moreAbdelkader Benali, Bas Heijne, Elsbeth Etty, Pieter Steinz
The language conflict - a debate on language policy in Surinam, the Antilles and the Netherlands
Winternachten 2006
Papiamentu, Papiamento, Sranantongo, Sarnami, English, Dutch... The languages of the Antilles and Surinam are under pressure. What is the status of Papiamentu on Curaçao and Bonaire, of Papiamento on Aruba and English on St Martin? And what about …
read moreDrisana Deborah Jack, Frank Martinus Arion, Liesbeth Koenen, Rappa, Ronald Severing, Ruben Severina
I capitulate - a debate about threats, solidarity and self-censorship in art and journalism
Winternachten 2006
Freedom of speech is under pressure in the Netherlands. Almost every artist or journalist who has appeared in the news as a result of receiving threats, has capitulated. From theatre director Johan Doesburg (Fassbinder's The dirt, the city and …
read moreAfshin Ellian, Bas Heijne, Breyten Breytenbach, Maxim Februari, Michaël Zeeman, Sybrand van Haersma Buma
Between fool and preacher
Winternachten 2006
What do you do as independent cabaret artist and the message in your act has lost its urgency, and your ideas have become public property? What is the relationship between humour and morality, or in other words: when does a fool become a preacher? …
read moreFreek de Jonge, Henk van Gelder, Pieter-Dirk Uys
Ode to the Caribbean woman
Winternachten 2006
Austin Clarke from Barbados and Drisana Deborah Jack from St Martin, two writers in diaspora, discuss in their work the role of the black Caribbean woman. In spite of her oppressed position, she is strong, proud and confident. For both writers their …
read moreAustin Clarke, Bas Heijne, Drisana Deborah Jack
Young in Africa
Winternachten 2006
'Imagine that you are young, talented and ambitious and live in the anti-utopia known as Nigeria: half the world has imposed severe sanctions on your country. All you hear on the radio is that your land is being sucked into the quaqmire', writes the …
read moreBas Heijne, Helon Habila, Niq Mhlongo
Indonesia: from censorship to unprecedented freedom
Winternachten 2006
For years journalist/writer Goenawan Mohamad fought for the freedom of speech in Indonesia. There are no better witnessess of the history of censorship in Indonesia. Also former NRC correspondent Dirk Vlasblom talks about his experiences with the …
read moreA. Munandar, Dirk Vlasblom, Goenawan Mohamad, Paul van der Gaag
Colonial history of the East and West
Winternachten 2006
Frank Martinus Arion (1936, Curacao) en Eka Kurniawan (1975, Indonesia) met each other last summer during the Winternachten tour of Indonesia. Despite different generations and continents they found in each other a common interest, that of colonial …
read moreChris Keulemans, Eka Kurniawan, Frank Martinus Arion
The world, the writer and the philosopher
Winternachten 2006
Does it make any difference to the world what a writer does? Can he write autonomous and avoid the expectations of the outside world, or does he have to take a position concerning social reality? P.F. Thomese opens the debate with a plea for the …
read moreBas Haring, Margot Dijkgraaf, P.F. Thomése
Long live satirical poetry
Winternachten 2006
Een Antwerpse Mis-pop Een Swijn van den Bisschop Derft hier komen raesen En gnurcken, en knorren En schelden, en morren En kijven, en kauten Met Rijmen vol fauten This is how the poet W.G. Foquenbroch once wrote about an Antwerp bishop. The …
read moreFrank Koenegracht, Gerrit Komrij, Hans Verhagen, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Joyce Roodnat, Maria Barnas
Tell me about Surinam
Winternachten 2006
In the small community of Surinam it is not easy to be critical. But nevertheless master story teller Rappa does it in a lighthearted, anecdotal way. He shares the stage with his fellow countrywoman Henna Goudzand. Her recently published novel Hele …
read moreHenna Goudzand, Noraly Beyer, Rappa
In search of the independent mind - part 1
Winternachten 2006
Do they still exist, the independent thinkers, the non-conformists? Are they still given some elbow-room in our shrinking world? The South African writer Breyten Breytenbach provides us with a manual of do's and don'ts to help us preserve our …
read moreBreyten Breytenbach, Herman Franke, Marja Brouwers, Michaël Zeeman
In search of the independent mind - part 2
Winternachten 2006
In the second part of the search visual artist Marlene Dumas, biologist Tijs Goldschmidt and composer Theo Loevendie discuss the (im)possibility of autonomous creation. Maybe we should take our lead from such eminant autonomous creators as the …
read moreMarlene Dumas, Michaël Zeeman, Theo Loevendie, Tijs Goldschmidt
In search of the independent mind - part 3
Winternachten 2006
The evening closes with a discussion between all the participants of the search. Perhaps from this they can come to some conclusions as to how independent thinking can be protected. And last but not least Samuel Beckett's vision on human thinking: …
read moreBreyten Breytenbach, Herman Franke, Marja Brouwers, Marlene Dumas, Michaël Zeeman, Paul Röttger, Theo Loevendie, Tijs Goldschmidt
Candid Indonesian
Winternachten 2006
In her sensational debut novel Ode aan Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch ( Ode to Leopold von Sacher-Masoch) (2002), about sadomasochism and transsexualism, Muslima Dinar Rahayu discovers "a surrealistic view on life and fate, mixed with the delusions, …
read moreA.S. Laksana, Chris Keulemans, Dinar Rahayu
Presentation of the schoolchildren's poetry contest
Winternachten 2006
The Woorddansers present the results of a project from Huis van Gedichten: pupils of the Johan de Witt College in The Hague were asked to write poetry about 'heroes of the mind'. They will recite their own work. Dutch spoken.
read moreDe Woorddansers
Mr Blokker, how do you do that?
Winternachten 2006
'There is not one square meter of Dutch earth that does not have an education centre, a youth club, a cultural centre, or a shelter with a staff led by somebody called Dick, John or Arnold, wearing a beard and talking the whole day about communicati…
read moreAbdelkader Benali, Jan Blokker
The film choice of Deborah Jack
Winternachten 2006
The fickleness of memory is an important theme in the work of Drisana Deborah Jack, a poet and artist from St Martin. What do our memories mean? Why do we remember one thing and forget the other? She not only investigates personal memory but also …
read moreDrisana Deborah Jack
Film choice of Frank Martinus Arion
Winternachten 2006
"Read the book before it's destroyed by Hollywood!" Authors and the filming of books are at odds with one another. The Curaçaon author Frank Martinus Arion awaits with a certain amount of scepticism for the filming of his masterpiece Dubbelspel …
read moreFrank Martinus Arion
Out of the bottomless foundations of this charnel kingdom
Winternachten 2006
"Uit de bodemloze fundamenten van dit knekelrijk rijst een nieuwe schijnwereld, ontplooit zich leven à la opblaasboot." (out of the bottomless/ foundations of this/charnel kingdom/rises a new fake world/life unfolds/like a rubber dinghy). Thus …
read moreFrank Koenegracht, Hans Verhagen, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, Maria Barnas, Ruben van Gogh
The remake of Uncle Tom's cabin
Winternachten 2006
"Aha, you must be the lady who started the civil war and has abolished slavery", said president Lincoln at the time to Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's cabin . Can literature have such an important role? When history has overtaken …
read moreChristine Otten, Frank Martinus Arion, Pieter Steinz, Vamba Sherif
The Papiamento dictation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Winternachten 2006
It does not come as a surprise that very few speakers of Papiamento and Papiamentu can also spell in their mother tongue. Although the spelling has been officially established, teaching spelling has only for some years been part of the official …
read moreGilbert Wawoe, Igma van Putte, Olga Orman, Quito Nicolaas, Ronald Severing, Ruben Severina, Sidney Joubert
In memoriam Henk van Woerden
Winternachten 2006
In November of last year the painter, writer and non-conformist thinker Henk van Woerden suddenly died. As a contrary thinker he was involved in Winternachten for years, both as artistic advisor and as Winternachten foundation boardmember. In a …
read moreAsli Erdogan, Breyten Breytenbach, Michaël Zeeman, Rudy Kousbroek, To Trigono