Arthur van Schendel

Arthur François Emile van Schendel (born March 5, 1874 in Batavia , today: Jakarta , † September 11, 1946 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch writer .

Life

The van Schendel family returned to Holland in 1879 after their father, who had made a career in the colonial army, retired from Batavia in what was then the Dutch East Indies and settled in Haarlem . Van Schendel lost his father a year after returning to the Netherlands. The mother had to make do with a small pension and moved through a number of Dutch cities ( The Hague , Amsterdam , Haarlem) in search of cheap housing . The death of a half-sister in 1885 left a deep impression on young Arthur, who had given birth to the mother during this period and whose father had remained unknown.

The manner in which Van Schendel was educated is unknown. He had never taken a final exam. It is also unknown whether attending drama school was linked to the serious intention of becoming an actor.

In 1901 van Schendel registered as a teacher in the Netherlands; he had previously taught French at an English grammar school .

In 1902 he married Bertha Zimmermann. The couple soon had a daughter, Hubertina. A second daughter died in 1903, and Bertha also died in 1905. He then settled with his daughter Hubertina in Doorn (now part of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug municipality ). In 1908 van Schendel married his second wife, Anni de Boers. The couple had a daughter and a son and began a nomadic life (partly because of the woman's asthma) in Italy, England and France. The family lived badly on the father's income from his work as a writer, especially on his royalties for translations into German.

After the end of the Second World War , the family moved back to the Netherlands, where Arthur van Schendel died a little later.

Van Schendel founded the Dutch neo-romanticism with his first novel . In later novels, criticism led him to adopt a sober and realistic style, almost in the form of reportage. His most famous novel "The frigate ship 'Johanna Maria'" is particularly influenced by this.

Works

Drogon (1896)
Een zwerver ran (1904), German: "A vagabond in love" and
Een zwerver verdwaald (1907), German: "A vagabond verirrt", both German 1924: "A wanderer"
De mens van Nazareth (1916), German: "Der Mensch von Nazareth"
De berg van dromen (1927), German: "The mountain of dreams", a volume of stories
Het fregatship "Johanna Maria" (1930), German 1933: The full ship "Johanna Maria", new edition in the translation by Gregor Seferens 2007, Zurich Manesse Verlag, under the title Das Frgattschiff Johanna Maria, ISBN 978-3-7175-2146- 4th
De waterman (1933), German: "Der Wassermann"
Een Hollands drama (1935), German: "A Dutch drama"
De grauwe vogels (1937), German: "The gray birds"
De zomerreis (1938), German: "Die Sommerreise"
De wereld een dansfeest (1938), German, "Die Welt ein Tanzfest"
Nachtgedaanten (1939), German: "Nachtgestalten"
De zeven tuinen (1939), German: "The seven gardens"
Het oude huis (1946), German: "The old house"
Voorbijgaande schaduwen (1948 polsth.), German: "Passing shadows"

literature

Entry in the Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland (Dutch)

personal data
SURNAME	Schendel, Arthur van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schendel, Arthur François Emile van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch writer
DATE OF BIRTH	March 5, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH	Batavia , today: Jakarta
DATE OF DEATH	September 11, 1946
Place of death	Amsterdam