Jan Fabricius
Jan Fabricius (born September 30, 1871 in Assen , province of Drenthe Netherlands , † November 23, 1964 in Wimborne , county of Dorset , England ) was a Dutch playwright and journalist .
Life
At the age of 20 he left his homeland and went to the Dutch East Indies (today: Indonesia ) as a printer in order to earn a living. There he quickly made a career as a journalist. After ten years, a liver disease forced him to return to the Netherlands, where he then worked as editor-in-chief for Wereldkroniek , Spaarnebode and Nieuwe Courant . At the urging of Frits Bouwmeester, an early deceased brother of the actor Louis Bouwmeester , Fabricius wrote his first dramas: Met de handschoen getrouwd , Eenzaam and Derechte lijn , in which India plays a major role.
His plays have been performed hundreds of times. Nevertheless, in 1910 he moved back to Batavia , now Jakarta , to start his own newspaper. It was mainly medical reasons that prompted him again to move to Europe, where he settled in Paris . It is noteworthy that he wrote his Dutch plays Onder één dak (playing in Drenthe) and Ynske in West Frisian .
With the outbreak of the First World War he returned to the Netherlands. In the following years he experienced his greatest successes. With the performances Dolle Hans , Totok en Indo and Nonnie he ensured full houses. His career ended with the Great Depression and the outbreak of the Second World War . He remained productive, but his success slowly faded.
Fabricius moved to England, where he died in November 1964 at the age of 93. His son Johan Fabricius was also a well-known writer. Both are buried in the cemetery in Noordlaren , a district of the municipality of Haren .
In his hometown of Assen, a street and a school were named after him, which have since been torn down.
In Germany, his plays in northern Germany were often performed in Low German , including in the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater , such as Leentje Marten in March 1952, directed by Hartwig Sievers . In addition, several pieces have been produced as radio plays since 1925 . In the ARD radio play database, the following can be read on the page about the radio play Leentje Marten from 1962: The plays by the Dutchman Jan Fabricius have enriched the programs of the Low German theaters with many successful pieces. Similar milieu and similarities in the way he thinks and speaks of his stage characters can be found everywhere in Low German.
Works (selection)
- Anne de Vries & Jan Fabricius: De ring van de profeet . 2nd print. Nijkerk, Callenbach, 1981. ISBN 90-266-2708-4 (1st printed 1952)
- Jan Fabricius: Jeugdherinneringen van een Asser juggling . 2e printed, with a biographical schets van Ben van Eysselsteijn . Assen, Van Gorcum, 1959. (1st printed 1946)
- Jan Fabricius: Onder één dak. Play in three acts . 9e print. Antwerp, Janssens, 1948. (1st print 1915)
- Jan Fabricius & H. Nijdam: Marieken van Orvelterveen. Vrij made the Drentsche say van Ellert en Brammert. Landsspel . Assen, Van Gorcum, 1930.
- Jan Fabricius: Eenzaam. Drama in three acts . Antwerp, LJ Janssens, 1907.
Filmography
- 1958 Cesare - Director: Willy van Hemert - Movie made for TV (NL)
- 1965: Onder één dak - Director: Luc Philips - TV movie (NL)
- 1967: Onder één dak - Director: Willy van Hemert - Movie made for TV (NL)
Radio plays
- 1925: Ünner een Dakk - director and speaker: Richard Ohnsorg , with Willi Scholz , Hans Langmaack , Magda Bäumken , Alice Heitmann a . a. ( NORAG )
- 1951: Avendroot. A contemplative scene - Director: Hans Freundt , with Otto Lüthje and Alma Auler ( NWDR Hamburg )
- 1951: Ünner een Dack - Director: Hans Freundt, with Hans Mahler , Rudolf Beiswanger , Otto Lüthje, Erna Raupach-Petersen (NWDR Hamburg)
- 1956: Moder Maree - adaptation and direction: Eberhard Freudenberg , with Erika Rumsfeld , Ivo Braak , Jochen Schenck , Walter A. Kreye and others ( RB )
- 1956: De diamanten Brosch - Director: Hans Tügel , with Ruth Bunkenburg , Ruth Westerholt , Alma Auler, Aline Bußmann and others (RB)
- 1962: Leentje Marten - Director: Heinz Lanker , with Aline Bußmann, Hartwig Sievers , Heini Kaufeld , Hilde Sicks and others ( NDR )
- 1965: Inske - director: Jutta Zech ; Friedrich Schütter , with Roswitha Steffen , Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum , Edgar Bessen , Ingeborg Walther and others (NDR)
- 1965: De Dboddokter - Director: Rudolf Beiswanger, with Hartwig Sievers, Heidi Kabel , Jochen Schenck, Uwe Friedrichsen , Christa Wehling ao (NDR)
- 1966: Hein Ruku. Dutch folk game in the Low German radio version by Hermann Quistorf - director: Rudolf Beiswanger; Jutta Zech, with Jochen Schenck, Ilona Schütze , Uwe Friedrichsen, Erna Raupach-Petersen, Christa Wehling, Otto Lüthje; Ludwig Haas et al. (NDR)
Publications on Jan Fabricius
- Jan Fabricius. De man en zijn werk. With a foreword by Johan Fabricius and inl. Jan Spierdijk . Assen, Van Gorcum, 1971. (No ISBN)
- Karel Loos : Jan Fabricius en zijne works. A dramaturgical study . Antwerp, LJ Janssens, 1923.
See also
literature
- Jaarboek van de Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, 1970: Jan Fabricius (Assen, 30 September 1871 - Wimborne (Dorset), 1964)
- (German: Yearbook of the Society of Dutch Literature, 1970)
Web links
- Jan Fabricius in the Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (DBNL)
- polychoon journaal 75 years
- January Fabricius in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost , March 4th, 1952, “Leentje Marten - A Dutchman in the Richard-Ohnsorg-Theater”, by AWO.
- ↑ Hamburger Echo , March 3, 1952, “Comedy of human errors - Fabricius premiere in the Ohnsorg Theater”, by FCM
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fabricius, Jan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch playwright and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 30, 1871 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Assen , Drenthe Province , The Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 23, 1964 |
| Place of death | Wimborne , Dorset County , England |