Sedje Hémon

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Sedje Hémon (born April 12, 1923 in Rotterdam , † February 8, 2011 in The Hague ) was a Dutch composer , violinist , pan flutist and painter .

life and work

Sedje Hémon (maiden name: Sedje Frank) spent most of her life in Scheveningen and The Hague . She took music lessons from 1932, which created the basis for her visual and musical compositions. As a teenager, she contributed to the family income by making corsets and orthopedic items. Hémon joined the resistance movement in 1941 . Under the code name Annie van Dijk , she helped young people to emigrate to Switzerland until April 1944 by forging documents. Even her parents she helped to escape, but these were taken just before the Swiss border, in the Auschwitz concentration camp deported and killed there. Neighbors denounced Sedje Hémon. She was interned first in Birkenau and then in Auschwitz . As a violinist, she was allowed to join the prisoner orchestra. In January 1945 she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp . She was later transferred to the Neustadt-Glewe concentration camp . In May 1945 soldiers of the Red Army liberated the camp. After the Second World War, she spent three years in various hospitals in order to recover. There she worked on her skills as a violinist and on her technique as a composer. In 1953 she gave up playing the violin due to her poor health. She continued to compose and introduced the panpipe to Dutch classical music. She opened the first school in the Netherlands, the Hémon Panfluit Conservatory in The Hague.

Between 1957 and 1965, Hémon developed her interdisciplinary theory “Method of Integration”. The Sedje Hémon Foundation was opened in 1962 . In addition to more than 300 paintings (oil on canvas) and other pictures, she created pieces for orchestras, ensembles and soloists .

In 2017 paintings by Sedje Hémon were exhibited posthumously at Documenta 14 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sedje Hémon Stichting Biography Sedje Hémon , accessed on June 15, 2019 (Dutch)
  2. ↑ Sedje Hémon Project , accessed on June 15, 2019. (English)
  3. ↑ Andrius Arutiunian Sedje Hémon , accessed on June 15, 2019. (English)
  4. ↑ Documenta 14 , daybook Sedje Hémon (1923–2011) , accessed on June 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hémon, Sedje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Frank, Sedje (maiden name); van Dijk, Annie (alias)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch composer, violinist, pan flutist and painter
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 2011
Place of death The hague