Tim Krabbe

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Tim Krabbé, Beverwijk 1969
Association NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Born April 13, 1943
Amsterdam , Netherlands
Current  Elo rating 2274 (no more ratings since 2000)
Best Elo rating 2290 (July 1971 to January 1998)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Tim Krabbé (born April 13, 1943 in Amsterdam ; actually Hans Maarten Timotheus Krabbé ) is a Dutch writer , chess master and collector of chess curios.

Life

Krabbé comes from a family of artists. His father Maarten Krabbé (1908–2005) was a painter, his mother a writer and translator. His brother Jeroen Krabbé is a well-known director and actor, his half-brother Mirko Krabbé is an artist and designer.

After graduating from high school in 1960, he studied psychology at the University of Amsterdam and worked as an actor and journalist before devoting himself entirely to writing. Since 1967, the year in which his novel De werkelijke moord op Kitty Duisenberg was published, he has been writing thematically diverse novels, short stories and journalistic works. His books have been translated into 18 languages.

The psychological suspense novel Het Gouden Ei (German: The golden egg ) from 1984 reached a circulation of 185,000 copies in the Netherlands in the first 20 years and is often read at Dutch grammar schools. It was filmed twice: in 1988 as a Dutch-French production Spurlos disappeared by George Sluizer and in 1993 as their US remake Spurlos . Altogether six films were made based on Krabbé's templates, two of which he wrote the script. In 2009 Krabbé wrote the Dutch Boekenweek present with Een tafel vol vlinders .

From 1967 to 1972 Krabbé, a passionate chess player , belonged to the extended top of Dutch chess and took part in national championships. He published three chess books: a biography about the former world chess champion Bobby Fischer and two collections of curiosities and records in chess . Krabbé is the composer of chess problems and studies and co-namesake of Pam Krabbé castling .

Tim Krabbé (right) next to his ex-wife Liz Snoijink in 1988

At the age of almost 30, Krabbé discovered a second passion: cycling . In the following eight years he competed in around 600 amateur races. In 1977 he took part in the Tour du Mont Aigoual , a tour around Mont Aigoual , which he described in the following year in the autobiographical novel De Renner . The book became a classic of the sports novel in the Netherlands . In 2006 it was published in German under the title The Race .

Krabbé was married to actress Liz Snoijink and has one son. He lives in Amsterdam .

Awards

  • 1993 Swedish Crime Award (International) for: De försvunna . Trevi, Stockholm 1993 (Original title: Het gouden ei . Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 1984; German: The golden egg . Volksblatt Verlag, Cologne 1992)
  • 1995 Gouden Strop (Netherlands) for contracting . Bert Bakker, Amsterdam 1994 (German: delay . Limes, Munich 1998)

Works

Fiction

  • De werkelijke moord op Kitty Duisenberg (1967, novel)
  • Flanagan of het einde van een beest (1970, novel)
  • 15 goede poems (1973, poems)
  • Red Desert Penitentiary (1975, novel)
  • De Stad in het Midden (1978, short story) ( Ger . The city in the middle , Cologne 1993, ISBN 3-926949-15-5 ).
  • De Renner (1978, novel) (German The Race , Leipzig 2006, ISBN 3-379-00848-6 ).
  • 43 Wielerverhalen (1984, short story)
  • Het Gouden Ei (1984, novel) ( Ger.trackless , Munich 1993, ISBN 3-453-06953-6 ; and Das goldene Ei , Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-379-00814-1 ).
  • De Man die de Babson Task wilde maken (1986, chess essay)
  • De Matador (1991, short story)
  • Contracting (1994, novel) (German delay , Munich 1998, ISBN 3-8090-2430-9 ).
  • De Paardentekenaar (1995, short story)
  • De Grot (1997, novel) (German Die Grotte , Munich 1999, ISBN 3-8090-2445-7 ).
  • Kathy's Dochter (2002, Roman) (German Kathy's daughter , Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-379-00818-4 ).
  • Drie Slechte Schaatsers (2004, novella), (German Three on the Ice , Leipzig 2005, ISBN 3-379-00856-7 ).
  • Een goede dag voor de Ezel (2005, novel)
  • Marte Jacobs (2007, novel)
  • Een Tafel vol Vlinders (2009, novel, Boekenweek present )
  • Wij zijn maar wij zijn niet schift (2012, non-fiction about the rampage at Columbine High School )

chess

  • Fischer (1972, biography about Bobby Fischer )
  • Schaakkuriosa (1974) (German chess characteristics: strange, intelligent and amusing combinations , ECON, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-612-20336-3 ).
  • Nieuwe schaakkuriosa (1977) (German chess features: Volume 2 , ECON, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-612-20394-0 ).

Film adaptations

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Rating Progress Chart , accessed June 10, 2019.
  2. ↑ Bio- and bibliography on Tim Krabbé's website.
  3. ↑ according to information in: Tim Krabbé: Kathy's daughter . Reclam, Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-379-00818-4 .
  4. ↑ "Het gouden ei" nog steeds populair onder scholieren ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in Elsevier from July 21, 2010.
  5. ↑ Tour du Mont Aigoual , route and participants 1977 (Dutch), accessed on June 10, 2019.
  6. ↑ Hannes Hintermeier : I'm kicking someone else . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of March 15, 2006.
personal data
SURNAME Krabbe, Tim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer and chess master
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam