Joost van den Vondel   Pupils: Willem-Jan Bruning Menno Kramer Jelle Goossens Hello, We are Willem-Jan, Menno and Jelle. Our subject for the comenius project is the dutch playwrite and poet Joost von den Vondel. We have chosen this subject, because we had a little bit information about this man. Our guidance is miss Peters during the project. Here is some information about us. Willem-Jan: I'm Willem-Jan Bruïning and I am 15 years old and I like to sport. I play korfball, that's a Dutch ballsport. I also work at a supermarket in my village. I've got one sister, she's 17. My class is A4b at CollegeDeHeemlanden. Menno: Hi I'm Menno Kramer and I'm 15 years old. I play football and an other sport that I do is karate. I've got to much little sisters one is 14 and 0ne is 11 and I've got one bigger brother who is 18 years old. My class is also A4b. Jelle: High, I am Jelle Goossens and I am 15 years old. I live near Utrecht in the center of Holland. I live by my parents and I have a younger sister, Heleen. I play a lot of football and tennis. I have no job but soon I will. I am on College De Heemlanden. I am in class A4b also. Introduction Hello, we are going to tell you something about Joost van den Vondel. Joost van den Vondel is our subject for the comenius project 2002-2003. He was a poet and a scriptwriter in the golden century. We chose him because we want something from a Dutch person and the theatre seems a nice subject to us. So we chose Joost van den Vondel. In this presentation we will tell you something about Joost van den Vondel. We give information about his personal live and his works and al that kind of things. Our object is that we want to tell you something about this famous Dutch man. Our primary question is: Was Joost van den Vondel the poet of fatherlands and if the answer is 'yes', why was he the poet of fatherlands. 1. The beginning of the life of Joost van den Vondel Joost van den Vondel was born at 17 november 1587 in the south of the Nederlands. He was a son off Joost van den Vondel and Sara Cranen. After two months Joost van den Vondel and his family moved to Keulen. In 1597, when Joost was ten years old, the family moved to Amsterdam. Were Joost in 1606 to a member of a school became called 'Het Witte Lavendel'. He is never got through the Latin school. The Latin would came on an older age. In this time, Joost like to poet. In 1610, Joost van den Vondel married with Maria (Mayke) de Wolff. Joost and Maria take over the company of his father. It was a silk- and stocking trade. Joost van den Vondel was in the middleclass. So he was not a poor man, but also not a rich man. From 1610 he became a scriptwriter and a poet. His big works were coming. 2. How did Joost van den Vondel get such an enormous motivation to write? Vondel was known as a dramatical poet, a play writer. He wrote a lot of plays. For Joost's poems, he wrote all the political problems in them. And in that time there were a lot of other problems like the weather. All that he wrote in his poems, also known as satire. Vondel wrote poems because he could put his feelings into them, that was very easy. Write what you feel. And the plays he wrote were very good. His most populair play was Gijsbrecht van Aemstel. Amsterdam is besieged and taken over by the enemy in this play. After the death of Vondel the play was replayed for several times. It was his best play and so he had more impulse for writing more plays. 3. When and how did he become popular? When joost van den Vondel was about 20 years he started writing poetry and started studying latin After a few years he also maided plays for the theatre. In 1606 he joind a club of writers called: Het Wit Lavendel Later on he got lose of the clubs tradition. In 1610 he wrote his first play: "Het Pascha ofte de Verlossinge Israels wt Egypten, tragecomedischer wyse eenyeder tot leeringh opt tonneel gestelt" .joost was throughout his life very loyal to the bible and wrote a lot of stories that also acured in the bible. In 1619 Joost wrote the peace: "Geusevesper". He wrote this peace because of the execution of " Van Olden barnevelt" by the Dutch governement at that time. This peace made him verry famous in the Netherlands because he wrote against the governement. In 1637 Joost van den Vondel was asked to write a play for the grand opening of a new theatre:"de nieuwe schouwburg in Amsterdam". He wrote the play:"Gysbrecht van aemstel",which is a dram. This play was also performed many times after his dead. After reading a few Greek plays he goth really interested in them and started writing them himself until his dead he wrote plays and till now people are still fescinated by the poets and plays he wrote. 4. What were the famous works off Joost van den Vondel? In 1610, Joost van den Vondel write his first script. Is was at once a big work. The script was called: 'Het pascha'. Now I tell you the works of Joost van den Vondel till 1632, the time that was a little stop in his career. The 'Den gulden winckel der konstlievende nederlanders' was from 1613. Then from 1619 'Geusevesper' and in 1620 was 'Hierusalem verwoest' a huge success. In 1625 there were two famous works of him: 'Seneca's Troades' and Palamedes of Vermoorde Onnozelheit'. 'Harpoen' from 1630 was decent famous. In 1632 his works became a little bit gentler. The peoples thought that it came, because of the contact with Hugo de Groot. Because of a few deaths, Joost van den Vondel write a few beautiful pieces. His famous were: 'Kinderlyck'. That piece written he when his son was death and 'Lyckklaght aan het Vrouwenkoor' by the death of his wife. Then was it in 1635 time for his famous piece ever: 'Gijsbrecht van Aemstel'. This script would played also many times after his death. He wrote in 1639 'Elektra'. If we follow his impressing bibliography from 1640 till 1660 there are this works who are famous: 'Joseph in Dothan' and 'Joseph in Egypten' and 'Peter and Pauwels' and 'Heldinnebrieven' and 'Altaargeheimenissen'. In 1654 there was also a famous work it called: 'Lucifer'. The last work before 1660 of Joost van den Vondel was: 'Jephta of Offerbelofte' in 1659. Then in 1662 and 1663 there exist three poets:'Bespiegelingen van God en godsdienst'(1662), 'Johannes de boetgezant'(1662), 'De heerlijkheid der kerke'(1663). The scripts from 1660 till 1670 were dramatically. It was the end of the live of Joost van den Vondel. The works from that period were: 'Koning Edipus' in 1660 and in the same year there were the scripts: 'Koning David in ballingschap', 'Koning David herstelt' and 'Samson'. Then in 1664 his last huge script was there: 'Adam in ballingschap', but his last script was: 'Noah' of 'Ondergangs der eerste wereld'. His last poet was: 'Laatste Rijmsnik'. 5. How was his reputation in other countrys + a famous other foren writer? Joost van den Vondel wasn't verry wel known in other country's because he wrote particulary in Dutch he also wrote a few peaces in Germanbut his main language was Dutch. But a famous artist who lifed in the same period was leonardo Da vinci one of the most famous inventors, writers,architects etc. Her is one of his poets: And those men who are inventors and interpreter between nature and man, as compared with boasters and declaimers of the works of others, must be regarded and not otherwise esteemed than as the object in front of a mirror, when compared with its image seen in the mirror . For the first is something in itself, and the other nothinness-Folks litle indebted to nature, since it is only by change that they wear the human form and without it I might class them with the herd of beasts-Leonado Da Vinci Leonardo Da vinci was a verry inteligent person and at the age of 15 he could work with one of the greatest painters in Italy in that time I can't talk and give you al the inforamtion that I have of Leonardo Da vinci because then ou would be sitting her till tomorrow 6. How did Joost live the last years of his life? In Vondels last years, he lost his fortune. The cause was the bad behaviour of his son, Joost. So he needed a job at age 71. The city offered him a job as an door-keeper at the local bank. The job was not heavy and he had a lot of spare time to write lots of other poems. He was fired in 1668 and he got salary until he died. Vondel had to see his daughter Anna die in 1675. She took care of him for several years. He was all alone in the last four years of his life. Joost died on 5 February 1679, he had reached the age of 91. The last poem he wrote was 'De laatste rijmsnik'. Laatste Rijmsnik. Sedert liet hij de poëzy rnsten, te meer omdat hem de geneesmeesters verboden iet te doen, daar zijn hersens op mosten werken, oordeelende, dat het hem, in dien ouderdom, ten hoogste zou schaden. Hij volgde dien raad, en behield, tot weinig tijds voor zijn dood, nog een vaste gezondheid................. Hierop volgde allengs een verval van krachten. Zijn ouderdom wat zijn ziekte. Het pit des levens ontbrak oly; de lamp moet uitgaan bij mangel van voedsel. Ook begaf hem de natuurlijke warmte, en de koude des winters viel hem des te lastiger zoodat hij met een zijner vrienden daarvan sprekende al boertende verhaalde, dat hij een grafschrift op zich zelve hadde gemaakt. Men mag (zeî hij) als ik sterf, op mijn graf zetten: Hier leît Vondel, zonder rouw; Hij is gestorven van de koû. Dit, meen ik, was de laatste snik zijner poëzy." (Brandt.) This is the end of the presentation. Now we will give the conclusion of this presentation and we give answer on the primary question. The primary question was: Was Joost van den Vondel the poet of fatherlands and if the answer is 'yes', why was he the poet of fatherlands. Was Joost van den Vondel the poet of the Dutch fatherlands? Yes. Vondel is generally considered the greatest Dutch writer, he was the poet of the Dutch fatherlands. In 1867 the people in Amsterdam build a statue for him in a park, the Vondelpark. There is also a museam in Amsterdam about Vondel. In the museum you can find a lot of poets written by Joost. People played Gysbregt van Aemstel on the first of January but they've stopped that tradition. All the plays and poems of Joost are being sold in modern editions. All the work of Vondel together is like 10 very thick books. The writing of Vondel has technical mastery and phenomenal creative power. Very remarkeble is the steady, conscious evolution in his views about the drama. The way he put the feelings and thoughts into the poems was marvellous. Joost van den Vondel is truly the poet of the Dutch fatherlands. 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