Bertus Swaanswijk/Lucebert - Groeten uit Apollensdorf, 1943 - 2024
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Author/Illustrator Bertus Swaanswijk and Lucebert; title Groeten uit Apollensdorf, 1943; a Dutch language Bijzondere uitgave, 20 pages, in near-new condition, published by Bob Polak.
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Seventy-three years (!) after World War II, it was revealed that Bertus Swaanswijk played a less noble role during the war than was previously believed. Who? Bertus Swaanswijk! Better known as the highly acclaimed poet Lucebert, who received the P.C. Hooft Prize and the Prizes for Dutch Literature. Although a historian had already voiced this suspicion many years earlier, it wasn't until the publication of Lucebert's official biography (by Wim Hazeu, in 2018) that insight was gained into the poet's worldview ('Everything of value is defenseless'). Both friends and enemies were particularly surprised.
Hazeu had already finished the manuscript of his book when he was approached by the daughter of a woman who had been friends with Lucebert during the war. He had written her from Germany — which he called his 'Wahlheimat' — letters from which his Nazi sympathies were crystal clear.
The publicist from De Bergen and later fellow resident of Lucebert, Bob Polak, always up for a sharp joke, rekindled the matter last year by publishing an exceptionally beautiful folder of postcards (all featuring the image of Swaanswijk) with quotes from the aforementioned letters on the address side.
Beautiful and rare!
NOS News, February 8, 2018
Seventy-three years (!) after World War II, it was revealed that Bertus Swaanswijk played a less noble role during the war than was previously believed. Who? Bertus Swaanswijk! Better known as the highly acclaimed poet Lucebert, who received the P.C. Hooft Prize and the Prizes for Dutch Literature. Although a historian had already voiced this suspicion many years earlier, it wasn't until the publication of Lucebert's official biography (by Wim Hazeu, in 2018) that insight was gained into the poet's worldview ('Everything of value is defenseless'). Both friends and enemies were particularly surprised.
Hazeu had already finished the manuscript of his book when he was approached by the daughter of a woman who had been friends with Lucebert during the war. He had written her from Germany — which he called his 'Wahlheimat' — letters from which his Nazi sympathies were crystal clear.
The publicist from De Bergen and later fellow resident of Lucebert, Bob Polak, always up for a sharp joke, rekindled the matter last year by publishing an exceptionally beautiful folder of postcards (all featuring the image of Swaanswijk) with quotes from the aforementioned letters on the address side.
Beautiful and rare!
NOS News, February 8, 2018
Details
Number of Books
1
Subject
Literature
Book Title
Groeten uit Apollensdorf, 1943
Author/ Illustrator
Bertus Swaanswijk/Lucebert
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
2024
Edition
Special printing
Language
Dutch
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Bob Polak
Number of pages
20
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