In a bookcase on the street I found the anniversary number – the 200th – from 1974 from Tirade, The still existing literary magazine. In the back, the names of the 44 authors who had worked in alphabetical order were in alphabetical order. My god, I moaned, what you kept house again. Almost nobody was alive.
The list starts with A. Alberts and ends with Kees Winkler. In between there are many great reputations, such as Jeroen Brouwers, Remco Campert, Simon Carmiggelt, Elisabeth Eybers, F. Harmsen van Beek, Judith Herzberg, Pierre Kemp, Rutger Kopland, Adriaan Morriën, Karel van het Reve, Alfons de Ridder (Willem Elsschot), A. Roland Holst, M. Vasalis and Leo Vroman.
From the entire list, only Judith Herzberg, Janne Wijnalda and LH Wiener are still alive. (Under the reservation that I could not find any further data from one writer.) The writers were usually favorites of publisher Geert van Oorschot, many of them had published work himself. In his introduction, Van Oorschot, the only editor of this song, wonders with a hint of self -criticism if Tirade is an ‘excellent’ magazine. “No, it is not,” he must admit. “Tirade is a Áardig, readable magazine. And every now and then it has a fully -fledged excellent number. “
He searched for competent editors and mentioned some interesting topics for them, such as “the stupid and born literary nasal criticism in day and weekly magazines” and “the disturbing decline of a great literary talent (GK van het Reve)”. In the final rule, Van Oorschot expressed the hope that “perhaps after reading this song, some will say,” Tirade has a clear and own face. “
His friend Jeroen Brouwers thought differently. He called the editors of the magazine in a letter from 1979 “on-wake and on-altent.” Van Oorschot then asked him to run the magazine himself, but Brouwers refused: “Mine views are other than your views. ”
The list in the jubilee number contained some of me unknown names, one name I remembered vague: Agnes de Graaf, a poet of quasi-naive poetry, who debuted with the collection in 1970 at the age of 22 at the age of 22 Gotweet what accidents come from this. Did she still live?
Joris van Casteren visited her in 2001 for a series about forgotten writers in De Groene Amsterdammer. She was then 53 years old and lived “with her Scottish freer” in a house in the hills of Wales. She told how much Theo Sontrop would have published her poems at Meulenhoff, but that she had chosen Van Oorschot. Although Hollands Maandblad Van Oorschot refused a second manuscript of Kl Poll and Tirade poems, Van Oorschot refused. The count separated from her husband and started a second life in Wales. She now tried to close in English. With that the story ends The green.
And after that? Then it went completely wrong with Agnes de Graaf. On September 11, 2016, she disappeared, 68 years old, from her house in Wales and since then she has been missing. She was eagerly searched for, a track led to a river through a meadow, but her body was never found. She was officially declared dead later.
You could call that title of her debut a macabre forward.
You can talk about suicide with the National Helpline 113 suicide prevention. Telephone: 113, 0800-0113 or www.113.nl.