ANPWieteke van Dort at her fiftieth anniversary as an artist in 2013
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Petra Steenhoff
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Petra Steenhoff
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Actress and singer Wieteke van Dort died on Monday on the age of 81 in her hometown of The Hague. Her household confirmed this to the ANP information company. Her husband Theo Moody, to whom she had been married for over 50 years, died per week earlier. Two months in the past it was introduced that she was critically in poor health and had metastatic most cancers.
Van Dort is maybe greatest recognized for her alter ego Tante Lien. This previous Indian girl all the time greeted the viewers with “expensive individuals” and was an instantaneous success.
Van Dort additionally had nice success as a dignified girl in The Stratemakeropzeeshow and as Titia Rabbit in JJ De Bom, previously a buddy of youngsters. She additionally appreciated to sing. Usually these had been youngsters’s songs, but in addition songs like Simply give me Nasi goreng in Poor The Hague.
Misplaced every little thing
Louisa Johanna Theodora van Dort was born on 16 Could 1943 in Surabaya. In characters and songs she usually referred again to her youth within the former Dutch East Indies.
Her transfer to the Netherlands was not voluntary. When she was on vacation within the Netherlands together with her mom and stepfather in 1957 on the age of fourteen, the Indonesian president Sukarno nationalised all Dutch firms, stopping them from returning and inflicting them to lose every little thing they owned.
The household settled in The Hague, like many Dutch-Indonesians, the place Van Dort went to highschool. She didn’t end it. “I had a good time there,” she stated about that interval. “My report playing cards confirmed that I didn’t do a lot, however at that college there was each alternative to attract, paint and act.”
Kindergarten trainer
She wished to go to drama faculty, however she wasn’t accepted as a result of she regarded too younger. “The director stated, ‘You appear like a chick simply hatched, although you are 17. Go do one thing else first.'”
That is why she first educated as a nursery faculty trainer and a drawing course, each of which she accomplished. Then she went on to check on the Theater College in Amsterdam for 2 years, however she did not end that course. “I had no expertise, they thought. I solely had a expertise for acrobatics.”
She began working on the Nieuwe Komedie in 1964. There she labored as an intern, as a result of she didn’t have a diploma as an actress, and she or he was additionally paid as such. It was not till 1966, when she was requested for the function of Juliet in Shakespeare’s Romeo in Juliashe demanded and obtained the place of actress and the accompanying wage.
Titia Rabbit
In 1968 she additionally began working as a cabaret artist on the ABC Cabaret of Wim Kan and Corry Vonk, which carried out within the Scheveningen Kurhaus. Wim Kan had met them by means of their joint singing trainer Kees Smulders.
After her marriage in 1970 to psychotherapist Theo Moody, Van Dort’s stage profession ended. Moody already had youngsters and Van Dort didn’t suppose it was accountable to be away from residence each evening for performances. As a substitute, she targeting radio and tv work, as a result of she might do this throughout the day.
Van Dort performed with Willem Nijholt within the youngsters’s collection ‘Oebele’:
For 3 years she performed with Willem Nijholt within the youngsters’s collection Oebele and she or he grew to become very well-known on the radio with the toddler program Radio Noise ParrotA tv model of this was later made, which she introduced.
As a dignified girl she labored within the early Seventies The Stratemakeropzeeshow for the primary time along with Joost Prinsen and Aart Staartjes. This trio would make many extra profitable youngsters’s packages. Reminiscent of JJ de Bom/previously The Kids’s Pal wherein Van Dort appeared as Titia Konijn, and The core wherein she performed numerous characters till previous age.
Wieteke van Dort as a dignified girl within the Stratemakeropzeeshow.
Van Dort additionally performed Jul the miller’s daughter within the legendary tv collection Are you able to inform me the way in which to Hamelin, sir? and she or he was Pinkelotje within the film Pinky (1978).
Within the 70s she additionally made her first look in TV broadcasts round Sinterklaas. For years, Van Dort welcomed the great saint and his helpers within the Netherlands in November. The Head Piet (performed by Piet Römer) all the time affectionately referred to as her Vrouwtje Wiet. Later she was additionally seen a number of instances as Her Majesty in Sinterklaas movies.
Satay-Pig-Boys
Within the late 70s she began within the Late Late Lien present with the character Tante Lien. That was a powerful success. Instantly after the primary episode, VARA obtained 3000 letters. Particularly from Dutch individuals with Indonesian roots. They’d a number of appreciation for her songs and tales about that interval.
Within the Late Late Lien Present sketches, songs, conventional dances and tales in regards to the Indies had been carried out. The home band Satay-Pig-Boys below the management of Harry Bannink accomplished this system.
Watch an episode of the Late Late Lien Present under.
As a result of nice success of Tante Lien, Van Dort determined to carry out as this character once more and she or he continued to take action for the remainder of her life. Tante Lien was a welcome visitor at former troopers, at pasar malams (Indonesian markets), in theaters and at Indonesian occasion nights.
The character was even in style in Indonesia, the place a participant Indonesia Obtained Expertise dressed as Aunt Lien with one in every of her most well-known songs, Simply give me Nasi goreng.
Along with her appearing, Van Dort launched a number of data and CDs with youngsters’s songs and songs in regards to the Indies. She illustrated youngsters’s books and wrote a number of herself. She additionally labored lots for De Efteling: there she voiced the fairy tales Little Pink Driving Hood and Hansel and Gretel, for instance.
You’ll be able to play the function of Aunt Lien till you’re very previous, so I’ll proceed to try this.
Wieteke van Dort in 2014
Wieteke van Dort has obtained quite a few awards, resembling a number of Edisons, a Nipkow disc for JJ Goodgold data and she or he additionally obtained a royal distinction.
In 2007, she obtained a navy award on Nationwide Veterans Day for the respectful method wherein she introduced the Indonesian previous.
Porcelain
Later in life Van Dort began portray and drawing and portray porcelain. She has exhibited commonly. On the finish of January 2012 she underwent a severe coronary heart operation, however she didn’t wish to cease.
“I haven’t got the concept that I am achieved with every little thing but. You’ll be able to play the function of Aunt Lien till you are very previous, so I am going to simply maintain doing that,” she stated in 2014 to Broadcasting West.
On the age of eighty she nonetheless starred within the movie In love with Bali (2024). She then struggled with in poor health well being for months, which she attributed to a persistent flu. Finally it turned out to be most cancers. She died on Monday, per week after her husband.
