Raf Verhulst

Raf Verhulst , actually Rafaël Verhulst (born February 7, 1866 in Wommelgem , † March 24, 1941 in Vaals ) was a Flemish journalist, writer and teacher with a nationalist tendency. He spent the last 20 years of his life in Germany. He published some under the pseudonyms Antorf, Luc, Koen Ravestein, ST Rijder, Jan Terzake .

Life and effect

After studying at the Catholic University in Leuven , Verhulst works in Antwerp as an employee of the city council, teacher at the conservatory and journalist. In 1904 he received a lot of attention with his play Jesus the Nazarenes . In addition to plays and poems, Verhulst writes pamphlets and novels. During the First World War he published "the voice of activism" Het Vlaamsche Nieuws . In 1918 he fled to the Netherlands. The absent person is sentenced to death for collaboration (with the German occupiers). In 1921 Verhulst went to Göttingen, where he taught Dutch language and literature for 10 years at a newly founded institute at the university, which is now considered a refuge of Flemish hopes. From 1931 he lived near Aachen . He remains a Flemish “folk activist” and publishes relevant articles, continues to campaign for a German-Flemish alliance. For his 70th birthday, the meanwhile "ardent admirer of Hitler" in National Socialist Germany is being honored with an anthology, which includes the national and national socialist journalists Robert Paul Oszwald (editor), Franz Fromme , August Borms , Antoon Jacob and those belonging to this spectrum Painter Erich Klahn participate. In the year of his death (1941), he received the Flemish Rembrandt Prize for the novel Jan Coucke en Pieter Goethals, "which was integrated into German occupation policy" .

Fonts

Langs groene hagen , 1899/1915.
Jezus de Nazarener , drama, 1904.
Semini's Kinderen , Drama, 1907.
Telamon en Myrtalee , Drama, 1909.
Devant un verre de bière; La situation flamande vue dans un miroir wallon. Pour les Wallons de bonne foi , 1929.
Belgium before the Last Judgment , 1929.
Dr. August Borms , 1929.
Cauchonie. Answer aan the Kardinaal. Het proces van 't gezag van de bischoppen , 1930.
Naar een republiek Vlaanderen. Aan de Vlaamsche socialists! Aan al de werklieden van Vlaanderen! , 1930.
Jan Coucke en Pieter Goethals , historical novel, 1938.
De jeugd van Tijl Uilenspiegel , novel for young people, 1942 posthumously, German edition: Wolfshagen-Scharbeutz (Lübeck Bay) 1955.

Verhulst also wrote at least two opera librettos

literature

Karel van de Woestijne : Jesus de Nazarener en Rafael Verhulst , in: Ders. Verzameld Werk. Deel 4. Beschouwingen over literatuur en kunst , 1949.
Marnix Beyen: Held voor alle Werk. De vele gedaanten van Tijl Uilenspiegel , Houtekiet, Antwerpen / Baarn 1998.

Individual evidence

↑ Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau: Griff nach dem Westen , Verlag Waxmann 2003, Part II, p. 1080.
↑ dbnl / Herbert von Uffelen 2009 , accessed on March 18, 2011.
^ Dietz 2003.
↑ Detlev Schöttker, Cultural Imperialism. Charles de Coster's Belgian national epic "La légende d'Ulenspiegel" and its reception in Germany, in: Erich Klahns Ulenspiegel. Series of illustrations for Charles de Coster's novel, Wolfenbüttel 1986, pp. 27–44, here: p. 34.
^ RP Oszwald (Ed.): German-Dutch Symphony. Prof. Raf Verhulst on his 70th birthday . Wolfshagen-Scharbeutz 1937, expanded 1944, according to Dietz 2003; Claus Schuppenhauer, Eulenspiegel also has time and place. Notes about Erich Klahn and the “Low German Idea”, in: Erich Klahns Ulenspiegel. Series of illustrations for Charles de Coster's novel, Wolfenbüttel 1986, pp. 13–26, here: p. 23.
^ Dietz 2003.
↑ According to the Dutch Wikipedia , accessed on March 18, 2011, Verhulst received the Belgian State Prize for Flemish Drama for each of the last two dramas mentioned .
↑ Henner Reitmeier gives a review on page 283 of his “Relaxikons” Der Große Stockraus , Berlin 2009.

Web links

Literature by and about Raf Verhulst in the German National Library , accessed on March 18, 2011

personal data
SURNAME	Verhulst, Raf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Verhulst, Rafaël (real name); Ravestein, Koen (pseudonym); Rijder, ST (pseudonym); Terzake, Jan (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Flemish journalist, writer and teacher with a nationalist tendency
DATE OF BIRTH	February 7, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wommelgem
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1941
Place of death	Vaals

[1] Burkhard Dietz, Helmut Gabel, Ulrich Tiedau: Griff nach dem Westen , Verlag Waxmann 2003, Part II, p. 1080.

[2] / Herbert von Uffelen 2009 , accessed on March 18, 2011.

[3] Dietz 2003.

[4] Detlev Schöttker, Cultural Imperialism. Charles de Coster's Belgian national epic "La légende d'Ulenspiegel" and its reception in Germany, in: Erich Klahns Ulenspiegel. Series of illustrations for Charles de Coster's novel, Wolfenbüttel 1986, pp. 27–44, here: p. 34.

[5] RP Oszwald (Ed.): German-Dutch Symphony. Prof. Raf Verhulst on his 70th birthday . Wolfshagen-Scharbeutz 1937, expanded 1944, according to Dietz 2003; Claus Schuppenhauer, Eulenspiegel also has time and place. Notes about Erich Klahn and the “Low German Idea”, in: Erich Klahns Ulenspiegel. Series of illustrations for Charles de Coster's novel, Wolfenbüttel 1986, pp. 13–26, here: p. 23.

[6] Dietz 2003.

[7] According to the Dutch Wikipedia , accessed on March 18, 2011, Verhulst received the Belgian State Prize for Flemish Drama for each of the last two dramas mentioned .

[8] Henner Reitmeier gives a review on page 283 of his “Relaxikons” Der Große Stockraus , Berlin 2009.