Theater makers in mourning for Jeroen van Merwijk | Entertainment

entertainment">“Friend and colleague Jeroen van Merwijk passed away this morning,” Dolf Jansen writes on Twitter. “He carried friendship, civilization and involvement in everything he did, songs, poetry, visual arts, theater, radio.” Sanne Wallis de Vries says what suits her most about him, his statement: “I don’t think so.” “Hello Jeroen, thank you,” she adds with a broken heart.

entertainment">Katinka Polderman honors the man who put her “on the cabaret track”. “The man who brought me onto the cabaret track and to whom I feel incredibly related and indebted to in my profession is no longer there. Goodbye Jeroen. ” Cornald Maas says he is sad about the death of Van Merwijk. “He, like no other, was indebted to the importance of the arts to the last. And I learned a lot from him. ”

entertainment">Nico Dijkshoorn calls Van Merwijk „an abrasive, uncompromising, unbelievably funny man. Just what the Netherlands needed. ” Bert Visscher also pays a short ode to his colleague. “Van Merwijk is no longer. Deep bow and what a loss! Damn!”

entertainment">Van Merwijk died Wednesday morning in the presence of his wife Jeannette in his hometown Sainte-Juliette in France. He is cremated there in a private circle.

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