Ischa Meijer

Ischa Meijer (1976)

Ischa Meijer (actually Israël Chaim Meijer ; born February 14, 1943 in Amsterdam ; † February 14, 1995 ibid) was a Dutch journalist , writer and talk show host .

Life

As a toddler, Ischa Meijer was deported to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp with his Jewish parents, the historian Jaap Meijer and his wife Liesbeth Voet . The family survived the concentration camp and returned to Amsterdam after the war, where the Mirjam and Job siblings were born. When the children reached the age of majority , the parents broke off contact with them. Ischa Meijer suffered all his life from the lack of relationship with his parents and sought recognition in writing that he had been denied in his parents' home.

Meijer worked as a journalist for various major daily and weekly newspapers and was particularly known for his in-depth and revealing interviews. He also had a daily column in the newspaper Het Parool since 1991 under the title De Dikke Man ( The Fat Man ). Meijer also presented the radio show Een Uur Ischa ( One Hour Ischa ), later Een Dik Uur Ischa ( One Thick Hour Ischa ) and had his own show in the evening program of the TV station RTL 5 .

At the age of 52, Meijer suddenly died of a heart attack . In the year of his death he was posthumously awarded the Zilveren Reissmicrofoon ( Silver Reiss Microphone ) for his work as a radio host. The writer Connie Palmen , who lived with Meijer from 1991 until his death, published the book IM (German: IM Ischa Meijer - In Margine, In Memoriam , 1999) about their time together in 1998 . This became known beyond the Netherlands.

literature

• Evelien Gans : Jaap en Ischa Meijer. Een joodse divorced 1912–1956 (2008)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ischa Meijer in the catalog of the German National Library