Willem van den Hout

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Wilhelmus Henricus Maria van den Hout , usually short Willem van den Hout (born June 3, 1915 in 's-Hertogenbosch , † February 24, 1985 in The Hague ) was a Dutch writer and publicist who worked under the pseudonym Willy van der Heide with a youth book series called Bob Evers became known. He also used Willy Waterman, William W. Waterman, Sylvia Sillevis, Victor Valstar, Victor H. Huitink, Joke Raviera, ZSA ZSA Ferguson and CB McInverness, MD, Ph.D.

Life

Van den Hout grew up as the eldest son of a teacher in 's-Hertogenbosch, together with his brother Joop and his sister Marie-Jose. From 1937 he worked in the press and public relations department of the Philips company . He also worked as a writer on the side.

Van den Hout was married three times. From his first marriage he had two sons (Willem Peter and Charles Paul), from his third marriage a daughter (Sylvia) and a son (Michiel). At the age of 69 he succumbed to a kidnapped heart attack in his home town of The Hague .

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His first work appeared under the pseudonym Willy Waterman and told a burlesque story called “America is filming. Een visie op Hollywood en op Hollywood's wonderlijke werkwijzen. ”(America is filming. A look at Hollywood and its amazing ways of working.) The alliteration in the title should become his defining style feature.

In 1941 van den Hout became a member of the fascist Zwart Front (Black Front) and soon became its head of propaganda . At that time he wrote articles for the Nazi -friendly Hague Journal De Residentiebode (The Residenzbote) and was chief editor of De Gil (The cry), a satirical newspaper that during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II by the Department "active propaganda “Of the Main Department for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda (branch of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ). It appeared fortnightly and had its editorial office in The Hague.

He processed his experiences during the mobilization of 1939 and his army service in his novels “De kruistocht van generaal Taillehaeck” (General Taillehaeck's Crusade) from 1941 and Een strijd om Nederland (Battle for the Netherlands) from 1943. Under the pseudonym Willy van der Heide wrote "De avonturen van 3 jongens in de Stille Zuidzee" (The adventures of three boys in the Pacific Sea) for the features section of the youth magazine Jeugd (Youth). This adventure story formed the basis for his Bob Evers series after the Second World War .

After his death, the series was continued by Peter de Zwaan (* 1944). From 2002 to 2006 four Bob Evers stories were published as comics in Algemeen Dagblad .