Floortje Zwigtman

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Floortje Zwigtman (pseudonym, real name: Andrea Oostdijk ; born November 13, 1974 in Terneuzen ) is a Dutch author of books for young people who is best known in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.

life and work

She lives and works in South Holland . Since 2000 she has had an office for the development and distribution of materials for schools and museums. These are texts, written or digital, from novice readers to educational publications for young people and adults. Her books for young people have received several awards and have been widely discussed in the press. Zwigtman made her debut as an author with her medieval novel Wie Sonne und Mond (2002). In her Adrian Mayfield trilogy (2008-2011) she describes the adventurous life of the young homosexual Adrian Mayfield at the time of Oscar Wilde (1894), and in 2006 it won the Golden Owl and the Golden Kiss .

In 2012 she was a member of the jury for the award The Extraordinary Book of the children and youth program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Literary meaning

Floortje Zwigtman is one of the most important living Dutch authors of books for young people thanks to her success with the press and the public with wolf packs and the Adrian Mayfield trilogy. In Germany, too, thanks in particular to the Adrian Mayfield books, she is one of the better-known Dutch authors of young books. The first volume of the trilogy in particular received impressive press coverage. Especially in the Netherlands she is repeatedly referred to as | Female Charles Dickens. But the press coverage in Germany has also been consistently positive. Christina Hoffmann, for example, read “an impressive youth novel” in the FAZ , but also points out that the author “shifts the common panorama of motifs and subjects in the youth novel with obstinacy and temperament”. For Hoffmann, the book is an “idiosyncratic youth novel - and quite vulnerable”. Zwigtman's wolf pack caused controversy because of its violence. Her latest work, at least, remains above this accusation, but it is controversial: “Is the development novel too explicit in the physical? Do prostitution in general and homosexuals in particular belong in a book for young people? ”For Frank Griesheimer from Die Welt , this book, which tells of an upbringing of the heart, is “ a sensual and intellectual reading pleasure for adults too. But it is particularly recommended for young people. Because it takes them seriously as seekers and those who try it out, does not challenge them and feeds them off with mere entertainment. The publisher is to be thanked for making this bold book accessible to German readers ” . Petra Bäni from the Swiss Institute for Children's and Youth Media “shows the novel by the Dutch cult author to be an impressionist masterpiece. A picture-text conglomerate that is able to reproduce the mental state of a seventeen-year-old and lets the reader experience surprising twists and turns with the self-insights of the protagonist. It is a fairy tale, a history book, a biography in which the search for oneself is central. A tome that has what it takes to become a classic for older teenagers and adults ”. The Hamburg children's and youth literature researcher Horst Künnemann also praised the author's open approach to homosexuality in youth books in the Süddeutsche Zeitung . For him, Zwigtman “confidently masters in her great novel Ich, Adrian Mayfield the problematic that is still delicate in youth books. Stylishly, visually powerful, powerfully scenic and translated congenially by Rolf Erdorf, it opens a multi-faceted panorama of time in which it connects the biographies of historical personalities like Oscar Wilde and his friends with the stories of fictional people like Adrian and his painter friend Trops. The result is a successful mixture of adolescent, social and epoch novel that paints an impressive picture of London society ”. Künnemann goes on to explain that Zwigtman manages to "attract the reader through attention to detail, brilliant personal drawings and a dense atmosphere, an art that she already demonstrated in her highly regarded historical novel Wolfsrudel (Gerstenberg)".

bibliography

  • Translations into German
    • 2002: Wie Sonne und Mond , Nagel & Kimche Verlag , Original: Spelregels (2001)
    • 2006: Wolfsrudel , Text: Floortje Zwigtman, Translation from Dutch: Rolf Erdorf, Publisher: Gerstenberg, Original: Wolfsroedel (2002)
    • 2008–2011: Adrian Mayfield trilogy (Original: Een groene bloem trilogy, 2005–2010)
      • 2008: Ich, Adrian Mayfield , Text: Floortje Zwigtman, Translation from Dutch: Rolf Erdorf, Publisher: Gerstenberg, Original: Schijnbewegungingen (2005)
      • 2009: Adrian Mayfield - An attempt at love , translation from Dutch: Rolf Erdorf, publisher: Gerstenberg, original: Tegenspel (2007)
      • 2011: Adrian Mayfield - Auf Leben und Tod , translation from Dutch: Rolf Erdorf, publisher: Gerstenberg, original: Spiegeljongen (2010)
  • so far untranslated
    • 2007: Kersenbloed (Prehistory to the Adrian Mayfield trilogy)
    • 2007: Mispunt!
    • 2008: Merels grote varkensvakantie
    • 2008: Haat kwadraat (story for young people with reading problems)
    • 2008: De Gifzuster
    • 2009: Leeuwenmoed

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Floortje Zwigtman at Gerstenberg Verlag
  2. ↑ Christina Hoffmann: Deceive the demimonde. In: FAZ.net . July 10, 2009, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Frank Griesheimer: Education of the Heart. In: welt.de . December 6, 2008, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Review: Me, Adrian Mayfield. Swiss Institute for Children's and Youth Media SIKJM, 2009, accessed on February 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ sz-shop.sueddeutsche.de ( Memento from July 28, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Zwigtman, Floortje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oostdijk, Andrea (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch author of books for young people
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Terneuzen