Antoon Cool

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Antonius Franciscus "Antoon" Coolen (born April 17, 1897 in Wijlre (near Heerlen ), † November 9, 1961 in Waalre (near Eindhoven )) was a Dutch writer and journalist.

Antoon Cool (1959)

Life

After attending high school, Coolen became a journalist and worked in Eindhoven, Maastricht and Utrecht. In 1920 he became editor of the Hilversum Gooische Post . In the 1930s he devoted himself increasingly to literature. During the Second World War , he refused to accept the Rembrandt Prize of the then Hanseatic University and did not join the Reich Chamber of Culture , so that he was no longer allowed to publish and went into hiding towards the end of the war.

Coolen was married and had four sons whom he named after his role models. He died of a heart attack in November 1961 after surviving a fall from a moving train the previous month. The causes of this fall have not been clarified.

Coolen was considered the author of Peel , as many of his novels were set in this region on the border between the southern Dutch provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg . Some of his books have been made into films and some have been translated into other languages. The journalist Günther Steffen called Coolen 1952 in the time a "novelist of distinction." A memorial made by the sculptor Fons Bemelmans has been located near Coolen's birthplace in Wijlre since 1997.

Works

Bust of Antoon Coolens
  • Brabant people . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1933 (original title: Kinderen van ons volk , translation by Elisabeth and Felix Augustin ).
  • The village on the river . Insel, Leipzig 1936 (original title: Dorp aan de rivier , translation by Hermann W. Michaelsen).
  • Jan, the shoemaker from Brabant and his Viennese child . Leo & Co., Vienna / Amsterdam / Leipzig 1936 (original title: Jantje den Schoenlapper en zijn Weensch kiendje , translation by Kurt Lenzberg).
  • The three brothers . Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1937 (original title: De drie gebroeders , translation by Bruno Loets).
  • The inn for discord . Insel, Leipzig 1940 (original title: Herberg in 't Misverstand , translation by Bruno Loets).
  • The woman with the six guards . Greven, Cologne 1955 (original title: De vrouw met de zes slapers , translation by Walter Hjalmar Kotas).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biography of Antoon Coolen at imdb.com (English), accessed February 5, 2009
  2. ↑ Günther Steffen: The Dutchman still tells well . In: Die Zeit , No. 14/1952
personal data
SURNAME Cool ones, Antoon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cool ones, Antonius Franciscus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Wijlre (near Heerlen)
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1961
Place of death Waalre (near Eindhoven)