A summery setting of Summer sentences is hardly conceivable. With an expected temperature over thirty degrees, it will be a tropical edition of the Literary Festival on Sunday. For the second year in a row it takes place in the test, the old horticultural school in Frederiksoord.
The festival was previously at other locations in Drenthe. “We have been everywhere. In the Veenhuizen prison museum, Football Stadium Emmen, Meppel, Amen, Hoogeveen, Dwingeloo, everywhere. And always in special places, because the place must also do something,” says organizer Annette Timmer.
The former horticulture school in Frederiksoord therefore fits perfectly in this list. “This place is great. This is really a historic place where we are. The horticultural school was founded in 1884 and has a huge garden. There are 553 trees alone.”
Moreover, the various buildings provide a special atmosphere for the festival. “It is not a festival where everyone is in one room and there it happens, but you go to different places. And of course you can walk around great.”
Different writers are interviewed in different spaces or carry their work for it. For example, the Flemish writer Tom Lanoye comes to the Drenthe literature festival. “He has won all major literature prizes that can be won there. And he has never been to Drenthe, so that is high time.”
Applicable at the location of the test in Frederiksoord, writer Yvonne Kroonenberg comes to talk about her new book about the allotment garden: Worms and earth. “It comes in the greenhouse. And she takes her brother Philip Kroonenberg, a great singer-songwriter. So they combine literature and music.”
Drenthe writers, such as Erik Harteveld, are also at the festival. “He is in the colony school, a little further. He is being interviewed about his new book, which is a letter novel. He has a correspondence with a blind person. Very impressive.”
Drenthe himself also comes back in the stories or in the language. For example, journalist and writer Frank Westerman is one of the guests who over his walking book series Casually comes to talk about the walks about his birthplace. “He notes that Drenthe has changed a lot and wonders: how OER is Drenthe?”
The Roo brothers end the day with their Lower Saxon music. Earlier this month they were the first to win the Drents Songfestival Pop in ‘t Plat with’ Olde Jetta ‘”They make the lock in the greenhouse together with Gerbrand Bakker, who is not only a successful writer also a skilled gardener. He is staying with the test here and has written a nice story there. That booklet is presented exclusively on summer sentences.”