Arthur van Schendel

Arthur François Emile van Schendel ( born March 5, 1874 in Batavia, now Jakarta, † September 11, 1946 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch writer.

Life

The van Schendel family returned in 1879 after retirement of his father, who had made during the colonial army career, from Batavia in the then Dutch East Indies back to Holland and settled in Haarlem. Van Schendel lost his father a year after returning to the Netherlands. The mother had to make do with a small pension and went in search of affordable housing through a number of Dutch cities (The Hague, Amsterdam, Haarlem ). A deep impression on the young Arthur, the death of a half-sister leave in 1885, which gave birth to the mother during this period and whose father had been unknown.

The way a school van Schendels is unknown. He had never filed a financial statement audit. Whether attending a drama school was connected with the serious intention of becoming an actor, is also unknown.

1901 could be van Schendel register as a teacher in the Netherlands; previously he had taught at an English Grammar School French.

In 1902, he married Bertha Zimmermann. The couple soon got a daughter, Tina Huber. A second daughter wide in 1903, and in 1905 also died Bertha. After that he settled with his daughter Hubertina in Doorn (now part of the municipality Utrecht Ridge ) down. 1908 marries van Schendel his second wife, Anni de Boers. The couple had a daughter and a son and began a nomadic life (among other things due to asthma in women) in Italy, England and France. The family lived poorly and right from the income of the father from his work as a writer, particularly of his royalties for translations into German.

After the end of World War II, the family moved back to the Netherlands, where Arthur van Schendel died shortly afterwards.

Van Schendel published his first novel, the Dutch neo-romanticism. Criticism led him in later novels to a sober and realistic style, almost in the form of reports. Of these, " The Fregattschiff ' Johanna Maria ' " is particularly be well -known novel coined.

Works

• Drogon (1896 )
• Een zwerver verliefd (1904 ), German: "A tramp in love " and
• Een zwerver verdwaald (1907 ), German: "A vagabond lost ", both German in 1924: "A Wanderer"
• De mens van Nazareth (1916 ), German: "Man of Nazareth "
• De berg van syndromes (1927 ), German: "The Mountain of Dreams", a collection of short stories
• Het fregatship " Johanna Maria " (1930 ), German 1933: The ship " Johanna Maria ", new edition, translated by Gregor Seferens 2007 Zurich Manesseplatz Verlag, under the title The Fregattschiff Johanna Maria, ISBN 978-3-7175-2146 - 4
• De waterman (1933 ), German: " Der Wassermann "
• Een Hollands drama ( 1935), German: " A Dutch drama"
• De grauwe bird (1937 ), German: " The gray birds "
• De zomerreis (1938 ), German: "The summer travel "
• De wereld een dansfeest (1938 ), German, "The world is a dance "
• Nachtgedaanten (1939 ), German: " Night Shapes "
• De zeven tuinen (1939 ), German: " The seven gardens "
• Het oude huis (1946 ), German: "This Old House"
• Voorbijgaande schaduwen (1948 polsth. ), German: " Gone Walking Shadows "