Campert, Remco

Remko Wouter Campert was born in The Hague, ^{[2] the} son of the writer and poet Jan Campert , ^{[3] the} author of the poem De achttien dooden, and actress . Parents broke up when he was three years old, after which, depending on situations and circumstances, the future poet and writer lived with one of his parents, then with his grandfather and grandmother.

Jan Kampert, known even before World War II for his anti-fascist position, was arrested during the occupation of the Netherlands for helping Jews and interned in the Nazi concentration camp Neuengamme , where he died in 1943 . After the death of his father, Remko lived with his mother in the city of ( Gelderland ). In 1945 , after the surrender of the Third Reich, they returned to Amsterdam .

While studying at the Amsterdam Lyceum, Remko occasionally began to write articles and draw comics for the school newspaper. Campert was not much interested in learning, and over time, he began to skip classes more and more, preferring to attend movie theaters, jazz clubs or bars, rather than lessons. In the end, he graduated from high school, with virtually no secondary education. In 1949, Campert married Freddie Rutgers, five years later they divorced.

Between 1949 and 1952, Campert drew comics for the Dutch magazine Mandrill and the daily newspaper . In May 1950, he founded Braak Magazine, together with his school friend , later a famous poet, translator, writer and essayist. In the same year, Remock published his first book, the poem Ten lessons with Timothy . Campert made a living by writing advertising texts and translating foreign literary works.

In 1955, shortly after his divorce from Rutgers, Remko married a second time, to the writer Fritzi Harmsen van Beek, the daughter of comic book author Martinus Harmsen van Beek. ^[4] After two years of living together in Blaricum , Campert divorced and returned to Amsterdam. In 1961, Remko married for the third time, to Lucia van den Berg. In 1964, they moved to Antwerp , but divorced two years later and Kampert returned to Amsterdam, where he met the gallery owner Deborah Wolf, with whom he lived until 1980.

In the 1970s, Campert wrote very little, although he continued to publish. As he himself explained to journalist Jan Brocken from the Dutch magazine : “I could not write for many years in a row. I didn’t like it. I was physically disgusted by this. I thought about it, but was paralyzed by doubts. " In the 1970s, Remko drew comics for the Haagse Post magazine, and in 1979 for the evening newspaper NRC Handelsblad . ^[four]

In 1979, Campert, overcoming his fatigue and doubts, resumes active literary activity. In 1985, one of Remko’s most famous novels, “Somberman’s Action” ( Dutch Somberman's actie ), was released, filmed in 1999. ^[five]

From 1989 to 1995, Campert performed in theaters throughout the country and abroad in a play he wrote with writer and former footballer . Their performances were based on their literary works. From 1995 to 2006, Remko and Mulder, together under the pseudonym CaMu, wrote daily columns for the front page of the national newspaper de Volkskrant . At the end of each year, these columns came out in the form of a book entitled “KaMu ...: An annual review of Remco Campert and Jan Mulder ( Dutch. CaMu ....: Het jaaroverzicht van Remco Campert en Jan Mulder ). In 1995, Campert read on the radio his best-selling book, Het leven vurrukkulluk.

Campert was married four times, has two children: Emanuel (born in 1960) and Cleo (born in 1963). After breaking up with Deborah, Wolf Kampert was mostly silent about his personal life, only once explaining his marital status in 1994 in an interview with Seis van Hore, the journalist of the newspaper : “I am not suffocating, I am the best company myself. Whenever I lived with someone, it seemed to me that I would be under water for days on end. Being alone is doubly alone, and I don’t need it. Happier to marry his career. ” However, this view of family life did not prevent Remko in 1996 from reconnecting with Deborah Wolf and concluding an official marriage with her.

• 1953 - Reina Prinsen Gerligs Award
• 1955 - Amsterdam City Prize for Best Poetic Work
• 1956 - Ian Campert Prize
• 1958 - Anne Frank Award
• 1959 - Amsterdam City Prize for Best Prose Work
• 1960 - Prize of the Amsterdam Art Council
• 1976 - Peter Cornelison Hooft Award
• 1987 - Prize "Cestode"
• 2011 - The
• 2014 - The Golden Typewriter ( Netherlands. Gouden Schrijfmachine ) ^[7]
• 2015 - Netherlands Literary Award

• Remco Campert's biography, works, and texts (nid.) In the (dbnl)
• Remco Campert on World Cat Identities