Charlotte Van den Broeck

Het verhaal achter dertien gebouwen en levensbeschrijvingen van de dertien betrokken architecten, van wie verschillende zelfmoord pleegden.

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A spellbinding new talent explores the dark side of creativity through the stories of thirteen tragic architects 'Bold Ventures resembles a pop version of Iain Sinclair's psychogeography or Out of Sheer Rage, Geoff Dyer's anti-biography of DH Lawrence' Olivia Laing, Guardian In thirteen chapters, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects - architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire built in seventeenth-century France to a theatre that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC., and an eerily sinking swimming pool in her hometown of Turnhout. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Charles Darwin to art history, stories from her own life and popular culture, patterns gradually come into focus, as Van den Broeck asks: what is that strange life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator? Threaded through each story, and in prose of great essayistic subtlety, Van den Broeck meditates on the question of suicide - what Albert Camus called the 'one truly serious philosophical problem' - in relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking new ground in literary non-fiction, as well as providing solace and consolation - and a note of caution - to anyone who has ever risked their hand at a creative act. 'What a sensible, intelligent and beautiful book' Stefan Hertmans, author of War and Turpentine

Thirteen Tales of Architectural Tragedy

Bold Ventures

Lieke Marsman

Peter Verhelst

Annemarie Estor

Marjoleine de Vos

Babs Gons

Roelof ten Napel

Astrid Lampe

Piet Gerbrandy

Max Temmerman

Roland Jooris

Maxime Garcia Diaz

Tomas Lieske

Rozalie Hirs

Tjitske Jansen

Yentl van Stokkum

Mischa Andriessen

Frans Kuipers

Rob Schouten

Paul Demets

Maarten Doorman

Charles Ducal

Ineke Riem

Evi Aarens

Stefaan Pauwels

Florence Tonk

Gershwin Bonevacia

Rik Andreae

Jana Arns

Astrid Arns

Senne Bogaerts

Anne Broeksma

Lies van Gasse

Jo Govaerts

Sasja Janssen

Antoine de Kom

Gerry van der Linden

Sarah Michaux

Thomas Möhlmann

Tijl Nuyts

Kenneth Swaenen

Willem Thies

Mark van Tongele

David Troch

Dorien de Wit

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Aarduitwrijvingen

Der gefeierte Bestseller über die Kühnheit und das Scheitern, über das Leben und die Kunst, nicht nur für Architekturfans. Eine sündhaft teure Schwimmhalle versinkt im morastigen Grund. Ein Kirchturm beugt sich nach Fertigstellung „wie ein geknickter Phallus“. Vier Toiletten werden geplant - für 2400 Soldaten. 13 Architekten misslingt ihr Bauwerk. Alle 13 Architekten begehen Suizid, weil sie das Scheitern nicht ertragen. Die Lyrikerin Charlotte van den Broeck besucht diese 13 zeitgenössischen wie einige Jahrhunderte alten Gebäude, recherchiert, einer investigativen Journalistin gleich, Leben und Wirken der Architekten, die finanziellen und die gesellschaftshistorischen Umstände, unter denen die Projekte entstanden sind. Sie trifft auf skurrile Menschen und sie verbindet das Gesehene mit eigenen Erfahrungen, Gefühlen, Erinnerungen. Dabei steht eine Frage der gefeierten flämischen Autorin im Zentrum: Welcher Wagemut, welche Leidenschaft ist nötig und welche Opfer muss man bringen, um etwas zu schaffen - auch und gerade wenn das Gelingen ungewiss ist? Sollten wir nicht alle mehr scheitern dürfen? Unterhaltsam, elegant, berührend, neugierig, sinnlich – so vielfältig ist der Grenzgänger aus Autobiografie, Geschichtsschreibung, Journalismus, Tagebuch, Essaysammlung. Und so demonstriert auch die Autorin die Lust am Wagnis, die echte Kunst erst möglich macht. Zu den bekannten Bauwerken in "Wagnisse" gehören die Staatsoper in Wien, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane in Rom ("San Carlino") von Franceso Borromini und die Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow.

13 tragische Bauwerke und ihre Schöpfer

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Nachtroer

A prize-winning Belgian poet explores the nature of creative endeavor—the godlike ambition, the crushing defeat of failure—through the stories of thirteen tragic architects. In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects—architects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in seventeenth-century France to a theater that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC, and an eerily sinking swimming pool in the author’s hometown. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Darwin to art history, stories from her own life, and popular culture, Van den Broeck brings patterns into focus as she asks, What is that strange, life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator? Threaded through each story is the author’s meditation on the question of suicide—what Albert Camus called the “one truly serious philosophical problem”—in relation to creativity and public disgrace. The result is a profoundly idiosyncratic book, breaking ground in literary nonfiction, as well as providing solace and consolation to anyone who has ever attempted a creative act.

Kameleon

After first making her mark as a compelling performer, Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck was acclaimed as one of Europe's most innovative and original new voices in poetry. Her first English translation combines her debut volume Chameleon (2015) with its sequel Nachtroer (2017), its title the name of all-night shop in Antwerp where she lives.

Chameleon

Charlotte Van den Broeck

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