‘Ik ga mee op reizen naar de nazivernietigingskampen die de Stichting Sobibor organiseert en ben gaan lezen over Aktion Reinhardt. Het zijn indrukwekkende reizen die niemand van de reisgenoten onberoerd laat. Het is de beleving van massamoord aan de lopende band.

Ik wil iets van mijn emoties en ervaringen in woorden vangen. Ik heb mijn vriend en beeldend kunstenaar Jeroen Hermkens gevraagd mee te gaan en zijn beeldend verhaal in tekening en litho vast te leggen. Het blijven eigen woorden en...

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world came an ambitious cobbler's son with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry-a torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous skepticism. What Christopher Marlowe found on the oth...

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