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QUATTRO IDILLI

October 2, 2021 11:09 am Published by ilja Leave your thoughts A trilingual edition of Idyll 1, Idyll 4, Idyll 61 (The old words of a time that is still yet to come) and Idyll 70 (Gongula), with the Dutch original,...

GRAND HOTEL EUROPE

December 13, 2020 4:34 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts Grand Hotel Europa has dominated the Dutch general bestselling list for more than an entire year. More than 300,000 copies have been sold so far. Grand Hotel Europa will be...

Reading at the Festival Insieme in the Temple of Venus on the Forum Romanum, Rome

October 3, 2020 5:43 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts

QUARANTAINE

September 12, 2020 3:24 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts In the spring of 2020, the world fell prey to a pandemic due to the Sars-CoV-2 virus. Northern Italy was among the hardest hit areas in the world. Ilja Leonard...

A three hour live interview on prime time with Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer for VPRO television

August 23, 2020 2:56 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts

SONNETS 2020

July 7, 2020 1:33 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts Since 1 January 2018, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has been writing a sonnet about the news for the newspaper every other week. These columns in poetry form are printed every other...

THE MANY-VOICED MAN

March 31, 2020 4:16 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts Since 2007, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has delivered a stage text almost every year. This has resulted in full-length work such as Malpensa, Blueprint for an Even Better Life, The Lawyer,...

Miniopera ‘Pandemic’ on Dutch national television

March 19, 2020 4:53 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts

SONNETS 2019

March 15, 2020 5:49 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts Since 1 January 2018, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has been writing a sonnet about the news for the newspaper every other week. These columns in poetry form are printed every other...

THE PROSECUTRIX

March 4, 2020 4:29 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts In the Western theater repertoire there are hardly any female roles that can compare to classic male protagonists like Hamlet, Oedipus or Uncle Wanja. Zuidpool is changing that and is...

UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS

September 25, 2019 3:04 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts “What doubt is for science,” wrote the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), “that is irony for personal life.” But in the social debate, irony soon leads to indifference. And Kierkegaard...

SONNETS 2018

May 8, 2019 10:47 am Published by ilja Leave your thoughts Since 1 January 2018, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer has been writing a sonnet about the news for the newspaper every other week. These columns in poetry form are printed every other...

Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer guest in the Belgium national television show Van Gils & Gasten

March 18, 2019 12:56 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts

JUST CALL IT LOVE

March 10, 2019 12:22 pm Published by ilja Leave your thoughts The bitter, touching comedy Just Call It Love stages a relay of encounters in the famous Majestic Imperial Hotel, where hundreds of rooms have room for loneliness. The play follows...