Lot Vekemans
Lot Vekemans (born in Oss in 1965 ) is a Dutch playwright.
Life
Liselot Vekemans studied social geography at the University of Utrecht and trained as a playwright at 't Colofon in Amsterdam . She worked as a journalist and in 1999 decided entirely for the theater. In 2005 she received a grant from Van der Viesprijses . In 2010 she received the Taalunie Toneelschrijfprijs for Gif , and in 2016 the Ludwig Mülheims Theater Prize for religious drama. Vekemans wrote a large number of plays in quick succession. In 2012 she published her first novel, Een bruidsjurk uit Warsaw, about a triangular relationship between a Polish woman who goes to the Netherlands as a “catalog bride”, a Dutch farmer and an American journalist. The novel was nominated for the Anton Wachter Prize .
Vekeman's plays have been performed in over 20 countries.
Vekemans lives in France and in Brabant.
Works (selection)
Plays
- De nimf: toneelspel . Nederlandse Vereniging voor Amateurtheater, 2000
- As ik droom, droom ik met open ogen: een eenakter . Nederlandse Vereniging voor Amateurtheater, 2000
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Truck stop . Het Toneel Speelt, 2002.
- Truck stop . Translation Eva Pieper. Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH . German-language premiere: October 28, 2007, Darmstadt State Theater
- Light! . Rotterdam: Tortuca, 2003
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Zus van . International Theater & Film Books, 2005
- Sister . Translation Eva Pieper. Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH . German-language premiere: October 22, 2010, Stadttheater Konstanz
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Gif . Amsterdam: De Nieuwe Toneelbibliotheek, 2009.
- Poison. A marriage story . Translation Eva Pieper, Alexandra Schmiedebach. Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH . German-language premiere: Münchner Kammerspiele.
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Judas . Theater De Toneelschuur, Haarlem, 2007
- Judas . Translation Christine Bais, Eva Pieper. Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH . German-language premiere: December 19, 2012, Münchner Kammerspiele
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Vals . De Nieuwe Toneel Library, 2013.
- Wrong . Translation Eva Pieper. Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH . German-language premiere: November 29, 2017 Theater Münster, director: Frank Behnke
- Van kneels down dead diva . De Nieuwe Toneel Library, 2015.
- Momentum . Translation by Eva Pieper and Alexandra Schmiedebach. Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH . World premiere: October 12, 2018 Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, director: Roger Vontobel
novel
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Een bruidsjurk uit Warsaw . Cossee, 2012.
- A wedding dress from Warsaw . Translation Eva Pieper, Alexandra Schmiedebach. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag , 2016, ISBN 978-3-8353-1601-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Lot Vekemans in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Lot Vekemans in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Lot Vekemans at perlentaucher.de
- Lot Vekemans in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Lot Vekemans , website
- Lot Vekemans , at Kiepenheuer
- Lot Vekemans , at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ Martin Krumbholz : Whoever believes doesn't want to change anything , at Nachtkritik.de , December 19, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vekemans, Lot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vekemans, Liselot |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oss |