Anne de Vries

Anne de Vries ( May 22nd, 1904 in Assen, The Netherlands, † November 29, 1964 in Zeist ) was a Dutch writer.

In the Netherlands, Anne de Vries was famous mainly for two novels about the boy Bartje Drenthe. In Germany, he was better known for his children's Bibles.

Life

Anne de Vries grew up with seven sisters on an old, secluded near Assen farm. As a student, he wrote articles for a local newspaper, the Asser Courant, for which he received two Kwartjes, 50 Dutch cents. For a purpose at the same time Christmas story, he received only a Rijksdaalder, 250 cents.

After attending elementary school Anne de Vries tried different occupations, from the gardener to the typesetter in the printing of the Drentse Courant. Finally, on the recommendation of the local headmaster, he attended a teacher training college. After his education he worked from 1923 first as a village teacher in Tweede Exloermond before he moved to Zeist in 1926 and teacher at the local school was Bartiméus blind.

On August 7, 1930 Anne de Vries Alida van Gerdina married Wermeskerken. From this union came five children.

1930 was published under the pseudonym A. Nassau Evert in Turfland, Anne de Vries ' first school reading book, which up to his death, many more should follow. In 1935 came his first novel, Bartje, in which he described the youth of the son of a poor family of peasants in his home Drenthe.

Bartje was translated, among others, the German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech and Hungarian.

After the great - even commercial - success Bartje Anne de Vries began to work full-time as an author. Soon came the sequel, Bartje seeks happiness, but not to so great a success as the first part.

Besides Bartje and school reading books Anne de Vries wrote more prose for adults as for children. In Germany especially his children Bibles were known.

Anne de Vries became involved in the underground movement against the Nazis in the occupied Netherlands by the German Reich. He hid Jewish refugees and Christian resistance fighter. He was the first author who wrote a life story of a survivor of Auschwitz and published. Two of his books are dedicated to the underground work of a post about John, with whom he had contact, and a novel that carries the risks of underground work in mind. That he divulged the names of those who belonged to the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB ), many country people resented him.

On March 21, 1952 Anne de Vries joined one arranged by the Dutch government trip to the Dutch colony of Suriname to the research school learning ways of reading and preparation of textbooks. After the return trip ( March 1953 ) processed Anne de Vries his impressions of injustice and slavery in Suriname in several children's books.

In the last years of his life Anne de Vries was chairman of the Section of Literature of the German Christian art Friends.

National became famous for Anne de Vries in the Netherlands after his death, after Bartje had been filmed by Willy van Hemert 1972 for television. With the television series, in which only non-professional actors from the region acted and which was shown in Germany only in the former GDR television, whether Bartje finally became a trademark for the province of Drenthe. A bronze statue of the character - already in 1954 - is now at the town hall of Assen.

Trivia

On March 21, 1964 reported the newspaper De Telegraaf de Vries ' alleged death, followed two days later in Trouw, the message appeared: " Anne de Vries: I 'm still alive ."

Works (selection)

• Boys from the street. ( Jongens van de straat ), 1934.
• Bartje. , 1935.
• The poacher. ( De Stroper ), 1935.
• Jaap and Gerdientie. ( Jaap en Gerdientje ), 1937.
• On the large heath. ( Op de grote heath ), 1937.
• The great marsh fire. ( De grote veenbrand ), 1937.
• The big book of biblical narrative history. ( Groot vertelboek voor de Bijbelse geschiedenis ), 1939 ( as a PDF ( 23 MB) ).
• Stories at Christmas time. ( Verhalen voor Kersttijd ), 1948.
• One hundred stories from the Bible. ( Honderd vertellingen uit de bijbel ), 1949.
• The book by Hans- Frieder. ( Het boek van Jan Willem ), 1950.
• Journey through the night. (Rice door de nacht ), 1951-1958 (4 items ); German translation under the title In the shadow of violence or the hand of reconciliation in the shadow of the violence of the Third Reich, 1960 (several ed.)
• The Children's Bible (Old Testament). ( Kinderkleurbijbel ( Oude Testament ) ), 1961.
• Two girls in the tropics ( Twee meisjes in de tropics, 1964)
• The book by Martina. ( Het boek van Dietje Jansen ).
• Travelling in Suriname. Experiences of three children in the interior, Konstanz 1977.

Lectionaries

From Anne de Vries ' Tell Big Book of Bible history the children songwriter Margret Birkenfeld published in the late 1970s four audio books, read by itself, and Juergen Werth and accompanied with songs from the renown children's choir.