Ingeborg
Tielman (March 17, 1931 - December 27, 2015) was a poet, Lyricist, theatre
director and director. Ingeborg Tielman had a relationship with Maria Carolina
van Loon (born 1950) from 1976. They married on July 10, 2007, in Rijswijk.
Wife Maria Carolina van Loon
Queer Places:
Café de Malle Meid, Mallemolen 16, 2585 XJ Den Haag, Netherlands
Ingeborg
Tielman (March 17, 1931 - December 27, 2015) was a poet, Lyricist, theatre
director and director. Ingeborg Tielman had a relationship with Maria Carolina
van Loon (born 1950) from 1976. They married on July 10, 2007, in Rijswijk.
SShe was born at Tegal (Java), Dutch East Indies, the daughter of Johannes Nicolaas Tielman (1891-1976), tax officer, and Rosa Anna Kučera (1905-1964). Inge Tielman grew up as the middle of a family with five children in Makassar, where her father worked in the service of the Dutch government. The mother was Czech – her parents had met in a hotel in Dresden when he was on leave and she worked there as a receptionist. Inge attended school in the Dutch East Indie until 1942 when the war broke out. Mother and children ended up in women's camp Kampili, where eleven-year-old Inge had to work in the sawa's, witnessed torture, was hungry, sick and suffered a lifelong knee injury. When the camp was liberated in 1945, Inge had dysentery and she hovered on the edge of death. Her father, who had also had dysentery in the men's camp, was reunited with his family. In 1947 the Tielman family left the Dutch East Indies definitely; the family settled in The Hague, where Inge went to high school. Inge Tielman started studying Dutch, but she soon found out that she "didn't want to study but wanted to live" (A Figure for Your Life). From 1949 she began to write poems. She wrote and worked as a telephone operator, proofreader, etaleuse, copywriter and dancer. In 1953 she became a member of the Haagse Kunstkring. Leo Verboon, a artist she befriended took her to artists' parties where she felt at home and met other lesbians. Since 1955, poetry gained an increasingly prominent place in the life of Inge Tielman. At literary meetings she read from her own work, she performed in the AVRO radio program De Muze betrapt and she published in anthologies and literary magazines, such as Maatstaf. In 1961 her first poetry collection Lay your ear appeared in the Windroos series of Ad den Besten and in 1966 her second collection was published in the same series: Deelbaar Licht. In reviews, the young poetess was praised for her mature expressiveness and surprising thoughts. Inge Tielman also experimented with other art forms. In 1965 she worked on a collage of image, sound and word by the artist Adrie Boon. One year later she founded the cabaret ensemble Salvo: she wrote the lyrics, designed posters, played along and directed. As a permanent playground for the ensemble she found the vacant Theater In de Steeg at The Hague's Westeinde – from 1967 Salvo was allowed to rent this building from the municipality. A foundation was set up with the aim of 'wanting a theatre' for beginners, young talent and anyone who has something to convey'. In October 1967 she joined the foundation as theatre director. Tielman remained artistic and business manager of Salvo until its dissolution in 1974, but was mainly theatre director: she programmed music, films, but especially theatre and cabaret. All the great artists have taken their first steps on stage at Theater In de Steeg: Jos Brink, Youp van 't Hek, Bram and Freek, Pia Beck and countless others to whom they are a springboard for their later career offered. In 1976 Inge Tielman met Maria van Loon, nineteen years younger, with whom she went to live together in The Hague. Maria also joined Theater. In addition, in 1976 they opened the café De Malle Meid, and in 1979 the restaurant 't Malle Hapje. In 1983 Theater In de Steeg no longer received a subsidy and had to it closes its doors. Inge submitted her resignation to the foundation and reported became ill. In 1986 and 1987 she sold the café and the restaurant due to increasing problems with her health. Between 1986 and 2010 Inge Tielman became the permanent director of dozens of professional and amateur theatre and theatre groups, such as VOBENO and The Parrot. In addition, she became artistic director of the Haagse Theaterrestaurant Goldmund, where the artists – following Berlin's example – performed and the guests also served at the table. Tielman engaged young artists, coached them and did everything in their power to bring them to the attention of a larger audience. This is how Theater In de Steeg grew into a important springboard for up-and-coming talent. The last years of her life Inge Tielman was seriously ill. A failing heart and a lung tumor were the main ailments that plagued her. Weakening health did not deprive her of her zest for life. On July 10 2007, a month before they had the first of numerous surgeries and hospitalizations she married her friend at the age of 75. In February 2015 she published a new poetry collection, Mosaic of Light. Ten months later, in the early morning of December 27, 2015, Inge Tielman died in her sleep, in her own bed in The Hague. On 6 November 2016, the Hague Art Circle Admire the Sea as Love was christened, containing the collected poetry and prose by Inge Tielman. The personal archive of Inge Tielman is currently in the possession of Maria van Loon: documents, letters, newspaper articles, program booklets, scrapbooks, drama and book reviews, poems, photos, videos.
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