#Villa Jagtlust

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Remco Campert ontmoet de hoogblonde dichteres

bron beeld: groene.nl Jagtlust van schrijfster Annejet van der Zijl (1962, Oterleek) geeft een prachtig inkijkje in de bezigheden van de artistieke scene uit de jaren 50, vorige eeuw. Alles draait om de plek: Villa Jagtlust in het Gooi. Het buitenhuis bood in de wilde jaren 50 onderdak aan tal van prominente schrijvende en beeldende kunstenaars: Cees Nooteboom, Jan Vrijman, Fritzi Harmsen van…

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Everyone who visited the villa Jagtlust remembered the central window that Fritzi Harmsen ten Beek decorated with thrifted objects and little art works. She created a magical atmosphere, as something out of a fairy tale. But this was also part of her artistic philosophy. She found beauty in small, overlooked things and decay, which she explained with a self invented word:

"In the bathroom I saw a millipede, where such an animal of course doesn't belong, and by the grace of God, that is tenderness, a millipede dividing its already slight shape over all these little feet. Now this is what I call a downlapse (especially considering that almost everyone finds millipedes repulsive).

Downlapses can be written well or badly. The difference between a downlapse and other forms of literary communication is that it needs to hide its poignancy as well as it can, while making the reader's mood susceptible to ideas about the subject that are different or even diametrally opposed to the reader's own way of thinking about it.

You could say that a downlapse should be: a choice of words that puts down a writer's thought in such a way that it breaks down a reader's prejudice."

Fritzi Harmsen ten Beek, 1969.

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Darling Wind - pass it on to tulip and hyacinth and all those others, daughters of Lord Valdemar, give my regards, endlessly give my darling, whirler wind

Fritzi Harmsen van Beek, Dutch poet, artist and the dazzling heart of a 1960's artists' colony that took shape around her in the squatted villa Jagtlust. Untitled poem alluding to the Andersen fairytale The Wind tells about Valdemar Daae and his daughters.

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Henk Hofland: 'Geen generatie kan ons evenaren'

bron beeld: dvhn.nl In Jagtlust beschrijft Annejet van der Zijl (1962) de geschiedenis van het honk van de na-oorlogse culturele generatie. Die was gegroepeerd rond het fenomeen Fritzi Harmsen van Beek (1927-2009), die menig mannenhart op hol liet slaan. Zelden succesvol. Jagtlust, zoals de villa heette die aan de Eemnesserweg in Blaricum stond, en waar Fritzi Harmsen van Beek haar onderkomen…