Jos Brink

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Jos Brink

Josephus Gerardus (Jos) Brink (born June 19, 1942 in Heiloo , † August 17, 2007 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch actor , cabaret artist , musical artist and producer, columnist and television presenter .

Life

Jos Brink was born into a family of four brothers. His father was a tax officer. As a child he lived in Purmerend and Rotterdam and was a scout for a while . After graduating from high school and training as a theater actor, he made his radio debut in radio plays in 1959 . In the 1960s he hosted several radio programs. He got his own TV show in 1970. He also became known outside the Netherlands in 1979 when he spontaneously kissed the monarch during a live television broadcast in honor of Queen Juliana , who was celebrating her 70th birthday. At the time, this was a controversial gesture because of the court etiquette , but a gesture that the Queen valued. In the 1980s he hosted many television shows, including Wedden, dat ..? , the Dutch version of Wetten, dass ..? .

Jos Brink, who was a good singer, appeared in numerous roles on the Dutch musical and cabaret stage. He was also often active in the theater and in television films.

Jos Brink loved domestic cats . In and oddities of everyday life, he wrote in the 1980 short, often humorous or even melancholy, touching columns (German: columns ) in several Dutch newspapers and magazines. These articles were issued as a bundle.

In July 2007, after a medical examination, it was found that Jos Brink had colon cancer . The lungs , the lymph and the left leg were also affected by the cancer. After several unsuccessful operations, Brink succumbed to this ailment in an Amsterdam hospital.

Brink has received a royal award: he was a knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau .

religion

Jos Brink's parents belonged to the Protestant group of Remonstrants . This church is a small, fairly liberal, free-thinking current in Dutch Calvinism . As a child, he had many Roman Catholic and atheist friends. So he developed his own very liberal and tolerant Christian worldview at an early age. In his circle of friends, which consisted to a large extent of other actors, he discovered that he was able to comfort other people through the word of God out of his faith. He was given several opportunities, the Amsterdam church building De Duif ( "The Dove") worship of an ecumenical basis community to conduct. He wrote the sermons himself. These have since been published as books. Above all, Jos Brink tried to break taboos around the subject of dying. In 2007 he published a little book ( Rouw op je dak ) about mourning . This title is a play on words: het komt rauw op je dak = that attacks you; de rouw = the grief.

homosexuality

Jos Brink was a proponent of the emancipation of homosexuality . In order not to damage his career too much, he did not put his homosexuality in the foreground, but neither did he deny it. He gave, among other things, dying care (moral support) for AIDS sufferers in the church "De Duif". He was one of the first to marry two men. Dutch law allows two homosexual people to be married in the same sex , and church marriages are also possible in the Netherlands. One of Jos Brink's colleagues, Frank Sanders , was Jos Brink's ecclesiastical and legal spouse.

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SURNAME Brink, Jos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brink, Josephus Gerardus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch actor, cabaret artist, musical artist, musical producer, columnist and television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH June 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Heiloo , Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 17th August 2007
Place of death Amsterdam , Netherlands