Rutger Kopland
Rutger Hendrik van den Hoofdakker (born August 4, 1934 in Goor , Netherlands ; † July 11, 2012 in Glimmen , Netherlands) was a Dutch poet and psychiatrist .
Life
At the age of 17, he began an eight-year study of medicine . In 1966 he published his first collection of poems, "Onder het vee" (Under the cattle). 1983–1990 Kopland was a lecturer at the University of Groningen for biological psychiatry. In addition, he began to write critical essays about doctors.
Rutger Kopland was married and had three children. He studied medicine and received his doctorate in 1966 with a thesis on the behavior and brain activity of dreaming and sleeping cats. From 1969 he worked in Groningen in the department of biological psychiatry at the medical faculty, in 1983 he became professor there.
Lyric work
The main themes of Rutger Kopland's poetry are reflections in a melancholy - sentimental form. Abandonment and impermanence, as well as love , confidence and death always play a role. This keynote can be found, for example, in the following quotes:
"Everyone would have to be an animal, should die / be reborn in autumn and spring."
"What I described in my letters / it is not the pain itself / but my shadow, how he / bends and bends / over what was left of what may / never existed."
Awards
- In 1969 he won the Jan Campert Prize for his poetry collection “Alles op de fiets”.
- In 1976 he received the Herman Gorter Prize for his volume of poetry "Een lege plek om te blijven".
- In 1986 he received the Paul Snoek Poetry Prize .
- In 1988 he was awarded the PC Hooft-prijs of poetry for his complete works.
- In 1998 he received the VSB Poetry Prize .
- In 2001 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Utrecht .
Works
- Poems
- Under the cattle , 1966 (Original title: Onder het vee )
- The small organ from yesterday , 1968 (Original title: Het orgeltje van yesterday )
- Alles auf dem Rad , 1969 (original title: Alle op de fiets ) → contains his most famous poem: Junge Salat (Jonge sla)
- An empty place to stay , 1975 (Original title: Een lege plek om te blijven )
- All those beautiful promises , 1978 (Original title: Al die mooie beloften )
- Before it disappears and after , 1985 (Original title: voor het verdwijnt )
- Thanks to things , 1989 (Original title: Dankzji de dinge )
- Patient tool , 1993 (Original title: Geduldig gereedschap )
- Until it lets go of us , 1997 (Original title: Tot het ons loslaat )
- About the desire for a cigarette , 2001 (Original title: Over het sucht naar een sigaret )
- Thanks be to things . Selected poems 1966–2006. Translated from Dutch by Hendrik Rost, Mirko Bonne. Edition Lyrik Kabinett at Hanser, 2008.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry "Kopland" in Munzinger Online / Brockhaus - Encyclopedia in 30 volumes. 21st edition. Updated with articles from the Brockhaus editorial team, URL: http://www.munzinger.de/document/12600143723 (accessed from Villingen-Schwenningen City Library on November 8, 2015)
- ^ A b c Rein A. Zondergeld: Das lyrische Werk In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literatur Lexikon . 3rd, completely revised edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2009, ISBN 978-3-476-04000-8 , Volume 9, pp. 305 f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kopland, Rutger |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hoofdakker, Rutger Hendrik van den |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch poet and psychiatrist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Goor (Hof van Twente) , Netherlands |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 2012 |
| Place of death | Glimmen (Haren) , Netherlands |