Ernest Claes
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Andreas Ernestus Josephus Claes [kla: s] (born October 24, 1885 in Zichem , Flanders ; † September 2, 1968 in Ixelles / Elsene ) was a Flemish writer.
He is one of the most widely read authors in Flanders. His best-known work is the homeland and picaresque novel De Witte (German "Flachskopf"), which has also been filmed twice.
Claes was Flemish-oriented and during World War II supported the nationalist unity movement VNV (Vlaams Nationaal Verbond "Flemish National Association"), which also had National Socialist connections. From 1941 he also took part in the Weimar poets' meeting organized by the National Socialist cultural propaganda .
His collaboration with the National Socialists was later blamed on him and he therefore spent three months in the Sint-Gillis prison near Brussels . However, he was acquitted of all charges and regained his civil rights.
Some of his works were published under the pseudonym G. van Hasselt .
bibliography
- Uit mijn dorpken (1906)
- Het proza van Potgieter (1912)
- Uit mijn soldatentijd (1917)
- With us in Germany (1919)
- Names 1914 (1919)
- Oorlogsnovellen (1919)
- De Witte (1920), German flat head , Suhrkamp Verlag, 1985. ISBN 3518370243
- Shechem's novellas (1921)
- De vulgaire divorced van Charelke Dop (1923)
- De Fanfare De Sint-Jansvrienden (1924)
- Kiki (1925)
- Het leven van Herman Coene (1925–1930)
- Hannes Raps (1926), German EA: Hannes Raps . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1932 ( Insel-Bücherei 429)
- De heiligen van Sichem (1931), German EA: The saints of Sichem . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1936 (IB 483)
- De geschiedenis van Black (1932)
- Kobeke (1933)
- Pastoor Campens zaliger (1935)
- Van den os en den ezel (1937)
- De moeder en de drie soldiers (1939)
- Clementine (1940)
- Jeugd (1940)
- De oude klok (1947)
- Jeroom en Benzamien (1947)
- Daar is een mens verdronken (1950)
- Student food house 'bij Fien Janssens' (1950)
- Floere, het Fluwijn (1951)
- Het leven en de dood van Victalis van Gille (1951), German EA: The life and death of Victalis van Gille . Insel Verlag, Leipzig 1953 (IB 568/1)
- Cel 269 (1952)
- Before the open poort (1952)
- De nieuwe ambtenaar (1953)
- Het was lente (1953)
- De oude moeder (1955)
- Leuven O dagen, schone dagen (1958)
- De Mannen Van Toen (1959)
- Ik en de Witte (1960)
Film adaptations
- 1936: De witte
- 1980: Flat head ( De witte van Sichem )
Web links
- Literature by and about Ernest Claes in the catalog of the German National Library
- Filming De Witte in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claes, Ernest |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Claes, Andreas Ernestus Josephus (full name); Hasselt, G. van (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 24, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zichem , Flanders |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2nd September 1968 |
| Place of death | Elsene |