Cisca Dresselhuys

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Francisca "Cisca" Wilhelmina Dresselhuys (born April 21, 1943 in Leeuwarden ) is a Dutch journalist. From 1981 to 2008 she was editor-in-chief of the monthly feminist magazine Opzij .

Life

Dresselhuys was born as the youngest of four children to a Reformed pastor and a teacher, which, according to her own admission, should have an impact on her later sense of mission . She later took up her origins again and interviewed pastors' children as a co-author for the book Het glazen huis , she herself lost her father at the age of eleven. Dresselhuys visited the Catholic Sint-Ursulalyceum in Roermond , where she was an exception due to her Reformed origins. Based on a letter from her mother to the editor-in-chief of Trouw , which was still decidedly Protestant at the time , she initially got a job as a teletypewriter in the Utrecht local editorial office, when the opportunity arose she finally trained as a journalist. Dresselhuys later described her early days at Trouw as tough but instructive.

In addition to a multitude of reports on events that were otherwise covered by her male colleagues, she also made a name for herself by reporting on fashion shows that she illustrated herself. In 1966 she finally moved to the central editorial office in Amsterdam . There she also contributed to the women's website “Trouw voor de vrouw”, which, like the newspaper as a whole, gradually acquired a more open character.

In 1974, in addition to her position at Trouw , Dresselhuys worked for the (initially still radical feminist) magazine Opzij . At Trouw , she mainly specialized in interviews with people in need such as the unemployed, alcoholics, the disabled, transsexuals and others. Her first two books build on this work, which she wrote together with Michel Vermeer, head of a telephone counseling.

In 1981 Dresselhuys finally moved to Opzij and became the first editor-in-chief there. Since then she has interviewed executives from business, politics and the media as well as artists and in this context introduced her “feminist yardstick” in June 1992. She assigned a value of −10 to +10 for the degree to which these men agreed with feminist ideals. In 1997 Dresselhuys received the offer to become editor-in-chief at Trouw , but turned it down - she would have been the first female editor-in-chief of a national Dutch daily newspaper ( Birgit Donker was not to be given this honor until 2006 ). She retired on April 1, 2008.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Alleen tussen velen (with Michel Vermeer), B. Gottmer's, Nijmegen 1976
  • De moeilijkste relatie (with Michel Vermeer), B. Gottmer's, Nijmegen, 1978
  • Het glazen huis (with Kees de Leeuw), Bosch & Keuning, Baarn 1985
  • Vrouwentroost (with Jacqueline Wesselius), Nijgh & van Ditmar, Amsterdam 1994
  • De Feminist Meetlat , Opzij, Amsterdam 1996
  • De Maat genomes. Topmannen lang de Feminist Meetlat , Archipel, Amsterdam 2007

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Knight's Cross Award for Cisca Dresselhuys (Dutch, last accessed July 25, 2008).

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literature

  • Piet Hagen: Journalists in Nederland. Een Persgeschiedenis in portraits. Uitgeverij De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam / Antwerp 2002. ISBN 90-295-2222-4
  • Co Welgraven: Typically Trouw, an autobiography van de redactie. Trouw, Amsterdam 2002. ISBN 90-70675-65-X

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personal data
SURNAME Dresselhuys, Cisca
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dresselhuys, Francisca Wilhelmina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeuwarden