Willem Frederik Hermans

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Willem Frederik Hermans (1986)

Willem Frederik Hermans (born September 1, 1921 in Amsterdam , † April 27, 1995 in Utrecht ) was a Dutch writer . From 1973 he wrote columns from Paris under the pseudonym Age Bijkaart .

Life and work

During his childhood, Willem Frederik Hermans had a difficult relationship with his parents and especially with his older sister Corry, in whose shadow he stood. When she committed suicide in 1940 , this changed his view of the world and he referred to it in some of his later works ( I am always right and remembering from an angel guard ).

At the urging of his father, in 1940 he began to study social geography at the University of Amsterdam . A year later he switched to physical geography . When he refused to make the declaration of loyalty to the German occupiers, he had to finish his studies. Hermans began writing during the Second World War .

After the Second World War , Hermans worked for various literary magazines. Parts of his first novels were also published here, which caused quite a stir. On July 4, 1950, he married the Surinamese Emmy Meurs, with whom he had a son in 1955. In 1953 he was appointed to the University of Groningen , initially as an assistant and later as a lecturer in physical geography. On July 6, 1955, he received his doctorate. He attracted particular attention in the late 1960s when he described the Jewish resistance hero Friedrich Weinreb as an impostor in several sharply worded articles. According to Herman himself, he put so much energy into this matter that it prevented him from writing several novels. In 1973 he left the University of Groningen after numerous disagreements and settled accounts with it and the city of Groningen in later works . In the same year he went into exile in Paris. In 1977 he was awarded the Prijs der Nederlandse Letteren . For Hermans this was the most important honor of his works. In 1990 he received honorary doctorates from the University of Liège and the University of Pretoria .

His hobbies included photography and the subsequent film development. He also collected old typewriters, which were exhibited in the Scryption Museum in Tilburg after his death . He has published numerous novels, essays, poems, short stories and dramas. Although he was awarded countless literary prizes, he mostly turned them down. Some of his works are part of school reading in the Netherlands.

Together with Harry Mulisch and Gerard Reve , he is one of the big three in Dutch post-war literature.

Awards

Bust (Public Library, Amsterdam)

Hermans was against literary prizes on principle. He is awarded only two prizes:

Works

An edition of all of the author's works has been published since 2005. 24 anthologies with 800 to 1000 pages each are planned. 14 partial volumes have already been published (as of June 2016).

  • Novels (6 parts), short stories and short stories (2 parts), poems (1 part), plays and scenes (1 part), contemplative works (7 parts), visual works (1 part), works by others (1 part ), Individual works (4 parts), other works (1 part)

Complete Works (Dutch)

Novels (Complete Works, Volumes 1 to 6)

  • 1947: Conserve
  • 1949: De tranen of the acacia’s
  • 1951: Ik heb altijd gelijk
  • 1956: De God Denkbaar Denkbaar de God
  • 1957: Three melodrama’s
  • 1958: De donkere kamer van Damokles
  • 1966: Nooit Meer slapen
  • 1971: Herinneringen van een engelbewaarder. De wolk van niet weten
  • 1973: Het Evangelie van O. Dapper Dapper
  • 1975: other professors
  • 1981: Uit talloos veel miljoenen
  • 1987: Een holy van de horlogerie
  • 1989: Au pair
  • 1994: Madelon in de mist van het schimmenrijk
  • 1995: Ruisend gruis

Volumes of short stories and short stories (Complete Works, Volume 7)

  • 1948: Moedwil en misverstand
  • 1952: Het behouden huis
  • 1953: paranoia
  • 1957: A landingspoging op Newfoundland en other conduct

Poetry volumes (Complete Works, Volume 9)

  • 1944: Kussen door een rag van woorden
  • 1946: Horror Cœli en other poems
  • 1948: Hypnodrome
  • 1968: Overgebleven poems

Contemplative prose (Complete Works, Volume 11)

  • 1964: Het sadistic universe 1
  • 1968: Annum Veritatis
  • 1969: De laatste resten tropisch Nederland
  • 1970: Het sadistische universum 2. Van Wittgenstein dead Weinreb
  • 1974: Machines in bikini
  • 1976: Dinky Toys

Polemics, essays, columns and reviews (Complete Works, Vol. 12–16)

(Complete Works, Volume 12)

  • 1977: Boze Brieven van Bijkaart
  • 1979: Houten leeuwen en leeuwen van goud

(Complete Works, Volume 13)

  • 1979: Ik draag geen helmet met vederbos
  • 1983: Klaas kwam niet

(Complete Works, Volume 14)

  • 1985: Deehle tussen mens en kat
  • 1985: Relikwieën en documenten
  • 1986: Het boek der boeken, bij uitstek
  • 1987: Mondelinge mededelingen
  • 1988: Door gevaarlijke gekken omringd

(Complete Works, Volume 15)

  • 1989: De schrijfmachine mijmert gekkepraat
  • 1990: Wittgenstein
  • 1991: Gitaarvissen en banjoklokken
  • 1994: Malle Hugo. Vermaningen en beschouwingen

(Complete Works, Volume 16)

  • 1964: Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur
  • 1983: Mandarijnen op zwavelzuur. Supplement

Works (German translations)

literature

  • A bibliography of publications on Herman's work and life can be found here.
  • Hans Ulrich Jessurun d'Oliveira : Scheppen riep hijgaat van Au: 10 interviews with WF Hermans, Lucebert, Pierre Kemp, Harry Mulisch, Louis Paul Bloon, Richard Minne, Jan Wolkers, Hugo Claus, GK van het Reve, Leo Vroman . Amsterdam: Querido 1967. Interview with WF Hermans, pp. 11–24

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. on life and work: [1]
  2. ↑ Short biography in Dutch
  3. ↑ Short biography in Dutch
  4. ↑ Homepage to "Volledige Werken" (Complete Works)
  5. ↑ Reviews
  6. ↑ to Herman's worldview / image of man
  7. ↑ Reviews
  8. ↑ Reviews
  9. ↑ Reviews
  10. ↑ Review
  11. ↑ On the works (chronological and alphabetical) cf. [2]
  12. ↑ Critique of AN autumn [3]
  13. ↑ Bibliography on the life and work of Willem Frederik Hermans (chronological, Dutch)
personal data
SURNAME Hermans, Willem Frederik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH April 27, 1995
Place of death Utrecht