Hugo Matthysen
Hugo Matthysen | |
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Background information | |
Birth name | Hugo Matthysen |
Also known as | Clement Peerens |
Born | Ekeren, Belgium | 30 January 1956
Genres | New wave, pop rock, jazz, world music |
Occupation(s) | Musician, author, philosopher and actor |
Hugo Matthysen (born 30 January 1956, in
Biography
In 1978, he played with Bart Peeters and Jan Leyers in the coverband Beri-Beri.[1]
In 1984, he regularly appeared with Bart Peeters and Marcel Vanthilt in Peeters' programme Villa Tempo as "De Hermannen". De Hermannen were three people with sunglasses, blonde wedge and wearing black jackets with a white sweater beneath, with which they intentionally looked like the German singer Heino.[2] They played absurd sketches.
Matthysen then also started to write for the magazine
Together with Bart Peeters he created the radio programme Het Leugenpaleis for Studio Brussel. Later a television version came out with the (anagram) title Het Peulengaleis. Apart from that, he is the writer of TV series for children like Kulderzipken and Dag Sinterklaas and he is also author of the theater piece Frankenstein by Smrntwsk Alleen (1989). On top of that, he wrote some music texts for De Nieuwe Snaar.
The Dag Sinterklaas series he wrote about Sinterklaas (=Saint Nicholas, European origin of Santa Claus) since the early 1990s gave children in Flanders, Belgium a view on the daily life of the holy man.[3] Also, it explained some of the questions children have around the event: why Zwarte Piet (Black Peter) is black (not his original skin colour, but because of sliding through the chimney) and how Sinterklaas acquires the presents (with a special kind of money). 20 years later, Bart Peeters stated it is thanks to Matthysen that in Belgium the Sinterklaas event has not been subject of a racism discussion as it has been in the Netherlands, because the series explains the figure of Zwarte Piet has nothing to do with slavery.[4]
In 1990, together with HUMO chief-editor
His alter ego Clement Peerens became famous with his band
In the summer of 2008, Hugo Matthysen again gave concerts with the Clement Peerens Explosition.
In 2010, he wrote the humouristic TV program Anneliezen.[5]
References
- ^ HDP (26 January 2004). "De studententijd van Bart Peeters" (in Dutch). Guido.be.
- ^ "Tattoo Herman en de Hermannen" (in Dutch). Cobra TV. 8 July 2011.
- Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 17 January 2015.
- VRT.
- HUMO.
External links
- Hugo Matthysen at IMDb