Jos Brink

Josephus Gerardus ( Jos ) Brink ( born June 19, 1942 in Heiloo; † August 17, 2007 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch actor, comedian, musical artist and producer, columnist and television presenter.

Life

Jos Brink was born in a family with four brothers. His father was a tax collector. As a child he lived among other things, in Purmerend and Rotterdam and was for a time scouts. After high school and a training as a theater actor, he gave his debut in 1959 in radio plays on the radio. In the 1960s, he hosted several radio programs. He was a 1970 television series. In 1979, he also became known outside the Netherlands when he. During a live television broadcast in honor of Queen Juliana, who celebrated her 70th birthday, the monarch kissed spontaneously That was because of a court etiquette controversial but highly appreciated by the Queen gesture. In the 1980s, he hosted many television shows, including Wedden, dat. ?, The Dutch version of Wetten, dass. ?.

Jos Brink, who was a good singer, performed in numerous roles of the Dutch musical and cabaret stage. He also worked many times in the theater and in television movies as an actor.

Jos Brink loved house cats. In and oddities of everyday life, he wrote in the 1980s, short, often humorous or just melancholy, touching columns ( German: column ) in several Dutch newspapers and magazines. These articles were published as a bundle.

In July 2007, it was found after a medical examination that Jos Brink was suffering from colon cancer. Even the lungs, lymph and left leg were already affected by cancer. After some unsuccessful operations Brink died in an Amsterdam hospital this suffering.

Brink has been awarded royal: He was a knight of the Order of Orange- Nassau.

Religion

The parents of Jos Brink belonged to the Protestant group of Arminianism. This church is a small, fairly liberal, free-thinking flow in Dutch Calvinism. As a child, he had many Roman Catholic and atheist friends. He soon developed its own very liberal and tolerant Christian worldview. In the circle of friends, which consisted to a large extent from other actors, he discovered that he is able to comfort from his faith out other people through the Word of God. He was given several opportunities, ( " The Dove" ) to conduct the Amsterdam church building De Duif worship of an ecumenical community based. The sermons he wrote himself Also these have now been published as a book. Jos Brink has mainly tried to break through taboos on the subject of dying. In 2007 a ​​small book ( Rouw op ever dak ) still appeared from his hand over his grief. This title is a pun: het komt rauw op ever dak = the coat of one; de rouw = grief.

Homosexuality

Jos Brink was a proponent of emancipation of homosexuality. In order not to hurt his career too much, he did not put his homosexuality to the fore, but did not deny it also. He gave, among other palliative care ( moral support ) for AIDS sufferers in the Church " De Duif ". He was one of the first that entered a marriage between two men. The Dutch legislation allows same-sex marriage of two gay men, and even religious marriages are possible in the Netherlands. A colleague of Jos Brink, Frank Sanders, ecclesiastical law and the spouse of Jos Brink.

Works

• Rouw op ever dak. Terra Lannoo, 2007 ISBN 978-90-2096986-3, 93 pages