Pieter Webeling
Pieter Webeling (* 1965 in Den Helder ) is a Dutch journalist and novelist.
Life
Pieter Webeling started as a journalist for the newspaper HP / De Tijd , since 1991 he has been a freelance journalist and interviewer for De Volkskrant and other newspapers. He also works as a speechwriter, conference leader and discussion moderator. With Frénk van der Linden he has been writing the series 34-vAGEN for the magazine Nieuwe Revu for years . Various parts of this have also been published as a book. The two were awarded the LOF-prijs voor Tijdschriftjournalistiek in 1998.
In October 2008 his debut novel Veertig Dagen was published , in October 2010 his second novel De lach en de dood . The novel Das Lachen und der Tod , published in German translation in 2013, found only a cautious reception by the reviewer Oliver Junge in the FAZ . The novel is about a comedian among the prisoners in Auschwitz . How one can stage the victory of humor and the humane over pain, Roberto Benigni showed that Webeling could not add anything to it.
Works (selection)
- with Frénk van der Linden: Maarten zonder masker . Amsterdam: Maarten !, cop., 2013
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De lach en de dood: novel . Amsterdam: Cossee, 2010
- Laughter and death. Novel . From the Dutch by Christine Burkhardt. Blessing, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-89667-464-7 .
- Veertig dagen: Roman . Amsterdam: Cossee, 2008
- De 5 grote emoties: interviews . Amsterdam: Contact, 2002
- with Eva Hilhorst: De voetballende accountant: en other portraits from het vrije beroep . Amsterdam: Looka Book, 2000
- with Louki Stolte: Vrouwenladder: elf vakvrouwen over de eerste baan . Amsterdam: Lookabook 1999
- Bloeiende zaken? : behave ondernemende . Amsterdam: Looka Book, 1998
- with Frénk van der Linden: Couple striptease: ontmaskerende ontmoetingen met Haagse helden . Amsterdam / Antwerp: LJ Veen, 1998.
- OogApple: eleven randesverklaringen aan de Mac . Amsterdam: LookaBook, 1998.
- Werktuig: dertien coryfeeën over hun geliefde gereedschap . Bussum: Novella, 1994.
Web links
- Literature by and about Pieter Webeling in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Pieter Webeling in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Pieter Webeling at perlentaucher.de
- Pieter Webeling , website (nl)
- Pieter Webeling at Randomhouse
Individual evidence
- ↑ Oliver Junge: Did the guards really want to laugh too? in: FAZ, December 2, 2013
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Webeling, Pieter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hero |