Johan Anthierens
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Johan Anthierens | |
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Born | Machelen, Belgium | 22 August 1937
Died | 20 March 2000 Dilbeek, Belgium | (aged 62)
Nationality | Belgian |
Occupation(s) | critic, journalist, publicist, writer |
Johan Anthierens (22 August 1937 – 20 March 2000) was a Belgian journalist, columnist, publicist, critic and writer. He became notorious because of his socially conscious columns, as well as his equally controversial opinions during interviews. He published both in
Press career
Anthierens was born at Machelen (Flemish Brabant) in 1937 as part of a huge family with seven daughters and five sons. He was the youngest of the family. His older brothers Karel Anthierens and Jef Anthierens also became famous journalists in Flanders. Thanks to them he became chief design for HUMO in the 1950s and 1960s, but also worked for De Post and Mimo. In the 1970s he received his own column in Knack, where he initially was only supposed to review TV shows, but after a while he used it as an outlet for every subject in society that bothered him, always written with a healthy dose of irony and sarcasm. Many readers wrote letters of complaint and after a while no magazine was willing to let him publish on their pages anymore.[1]
In 1960 he and Eddy Ryssack also made a comic strip, De geheime avonturen van Kapitein Matthias (The secret adventures of Captain Matthias), based on the popularity of the TV show Schipper naast Mathilde. The comic was published in HUMO.[2]
Radio and television
Anthierens was known for his love of
From 1976 on Anthierens was a panel member in the TV quiz show De Wies Andersen Show. In the first episode he caused a media scandal by claiming: "I am happily divorced." Together with Monica Moritz and Guido Depraetere he presented "Bij Nader Inzien". In 1978 he hosted the talkshow Noord-Zuid (North-South), together with Dutch TV presenter
De Zwijger
In 1982 Anthierens quit his job at Knack to start his own magazine, De Zwijger (The Silent One). It was inspired by
Later years
Anthierens had made so many enemies over the years that he hardly found work in other magazines. He was allowed back on television, however, and made a travel show about his idols Willem Elsschot and Jacques Brel, about whom he also wrote books, one published in 1992, the other in 1998. In 1994 he was co-presenter of the archive show "Gisteren Gekeken?" (1994-1996). During his later years he was best known for writing personal essays and books criticizing the Belgian monarchy, the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, commercialization and sensationalism in Flemish media and the rise of the far-right. He also wrote a book about Irma Laplasse , a Flemish collaborator during World War II ("Zonder Vlagvertoon") and the resistance leader Albert Vandamme. He also wrote the text for a book about GAL, one of his friends.
Anthierens was also popular in the Netherlands and a frequent guest in the Amsterdam Center for Flemish Culture "De Brakke Grond . He also published in de Volkskrant.[4]
Death
In 2000 Anthierens died at the age of 62 of
Recognition
- 1975: Yang Prize for his weekly column in Knack[5]
- 1979: First Geuzen Prize for 'the independence with which he attacked dogmas and narrow-mindedness as a journalist and author'.[6]
Bibliography
- Works (a selection)
- 1976 De flauwgevallen priester op mijn tong: vijftien op prijs gestelde Ooggetuige-kronieken, Knack – jaargang 1975. Walter Soethoudt, Antwerpen.
- 1986 Het Belgische domdenken: smaadschrift, Kritak, Leuven.
- 1990 Brief aan een postzegel: kritisch koningsboek, Kritak, Leuven (about the monarchy).
- 1992 Willem Elsschot. Het Ridderspoor, Kritak, Leuven.
- 1993 Tricolore tranen: Boudewijn en het augustusverdriet, EPO, Berchem.
- 1995 Vaarwel, mijn 1995, EPO, Berchem.
- 1995 Zonder vlagvertoon, Van Halewijck, Leuven (about the Resistance during WW2).
- 1996 De overspannen jaren. Opgetekend van 1960 tot 1996 (met Gerard Alsteens), EPO, Berchem.
- 1996 De IJzertoren. Onze trots en onze schande, Van Halewijck, Leuven.
- 1998 Jacques Brel. De passie en de pijn, L. J. Veen, Amsterdam.
- Autobiography
- 2003 Leve Mij . Niemands meester, niemands knecht (part 1) (compiled by Brigitte Raskin & Karel Anthierens), Van Halewijck, Leuven.
- 2005 Ooggetuige. Niemands meester, niemands knecht (part 2), Van Halewijck, Leuven.
See also
Sources
- ^ a b c d e Obituary in "De Standaard", March 27, 2000, page 3.
- ^ "Eddy Ryssack". lambiek.net.
- ISBN 9789089246905– via Google Books.
- ^ a b c d "Nieuwsselectie: Media". retro.nrc.nl.
- ^ DBNL. "Johan Anthierens - auteur". DBNL (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 May 2023.
- ^ "Geuzenprijs — 't Zal Wel Gaan". 4 October 2005. Archived from the original on 4 October 2005. Retrieved 16 May 2023.
External links
Media related to Johan Anthierens at Wikimedia Commons
- NRC.NL (in Dutch)
- Homage to Johan Anthierens (in French)
- In Memoriam (in Dutch)
- Anthierens interviews Brel – 1966
- The Geuzen prize
- De Groene Amsterdammer (about Brel)
- Official Brel-site
- Willem Elsschot Society
- Publishing House Van Halewijck
- Fondspascaldecroos.com, Press Cartoon Belgium
- V.V.J.