Peter van Dongen

Peter van Dongen (born October 21, 1966 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch comic book writer and illustrator.

Life

Peter van Dongen is the son of a Dutchman of German-Dutch descent and an Indonesian. The mother Peggy Anita Kneefel, whose family came from the island of Ternate , was born in Sulawesi in 1941 and fled with her family to the Netherlands in 1952. The grandfather Henri Johan Kneefel, a KNIL officer and a European-Indonesian mestizo , was murdered by the Japanese occupiers because of his loyal attitude to the Dutch crown .

Van Dongen attended the "Graphic School" in Amsterdam. At the age of 16 he was able to publish articles in the magazine De Vrije Balloen .

Since then he has been working as a freelance illustrator and writing comics.

In 1990 he published his first comic story with Muizentheater . In 1992 he visited Indonesia as a tourist, also to do research for his next book. In the graphic novel Rampokan he deals with the Indonesian war of independence against the Dutch colonial power , it took him eight years to create the first volume, which appeared in September 1998, and the comic was printed in advance in the daily newspaper Het Parool . The second part of Rampokan was published in 2004, and in 2005 van Dongen also presented his book in Indonesia on the island of Java .

Works (selection)

Muizentheater . Doornik: Casterman, 1990
Rampokan deel 1 Java . Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 1998
- Rampokan. Part: 1, Java . Translation Jan Kruse . Berlin: Avant, 2008
Rampokan deel 2 Celebes . Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2004
- Rampokan. Part: 2, Celebes . Translation Jan Kruse. Berlin: Avant, 2008
Rampokan schetsboek . Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2005
Three in Rio . Amsterdam: Oog & Blik, 2013
Way uit Indië . Text by Hans Vervoort . Amsterdam: Conserve, 2014

Web links

Literature by and about Peter van Dongen in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Peter van Dongen in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Short biography and reviews of works by Peter van Dongen at perlentaucher.de
Peter van Dongen , website
Peter van Dongen , at Avant-Verlag

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Katarina Borchardt: We learned almost nothing about this time . Interview, in: taz , January 9, 2016, p. 12
↑ Eric Verhoest, quoted from Peter Breedveld (Stripschrift 365, published 2004), in: Peter Van Dongen: Rampokan . Ed .: translated by Caroline Dobbelstein. Éditions Dupuis, Marcinelle (Belgique) 2018, ISBN 979-1-03473101-5 , p. without page number .
↑ According to the information from his German publisher, he received the Dutch Stripschapprijs for the best comic of the year. This can not be verified on the list of winners .

personal data
SURNAME	Dongen, Peter van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch comic book writer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH	October 21, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Amsterdam

[taz2016-1] Katarina Borchardt: We learned almost nothing about this time . Interview, in: taz , January 9, 2016, p. 12

[2] Eric Verhoest, quoted from Peter Breedveld (Stripschrift 365, published 2004), in: Peter Van Dongen: Rampokan . Ed .: translated by Caroline Dobbelstein. Éditions Dupuis, Marcinelle (Belgique) 2018, ISBN 979-1-03473101-5 , p. without page number .

[3] According to the information from his German publisher, he received the Dutch Stripschapprijs for the best comic of the year. This can not be verified on the list of winners .