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| + | '''Pierre "Peyo" Culliford''' (25 June 1928 – 24 December 1992) was a Belgian comics writer and artist who worked under the pseudonym '''Peyo'''. His best-known works are the comic strips ''[[The Smurfs]]'' and ''[[Johan and Peewit]]'', in which the Smurfs first appeared. | ||
| - | '''Johan Anthierens''' (22 August 1937 – 20 March 2000) was a [[Belgian writer]]. He became notorious because of his socially conscious columns, as well as his equally controversial opinions during interviews. He published both in ''[[HUMO]]'' as well as ''[[Knack (magazine)|Knack]]'' and founded his own short-lived satirical magazine, ''[[De Zwijger]]'' in 1982-1985. The main public got to know him thanks to his television appearances, both as panel member in the quiz ''De Wies Andersen Show'' and as interviewer in the talkshow ''Noord-Zuid'' (''North-South''). Due to his confrontational criticism of [[capitalism]], the [[monarchy]], the [[Church (sociology of religion)|Church]], the [[The Establishment|establishment]] and the [[far-right]] movement Anthierens had both a lot of admirers as well as many enemies. Still, together with [[Louis De Lentdecker]] and [[Maurice De Wilde]], he was widely regarded as one of the "Big Three" of Flemish critical journalism. | ||
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| - | ==Press career== | ||
| - | Anthierens was born at [[Machelen]] ([[Flemish Brabant]]) in 1937 as part of a huge family with seven daughters and five sons. He was the youngest of the family. His older brothers Karel Anthierens and Jef Anthierens also became famous journalists in Flanders. Thanks to them he became chief design for ''HUMO'' in the 1950s and 1960s, but also worked for ''De Post'' and ''Mimo''. In the 1970s he received his own [[column]] in ''Knack'', where he initially was only supposed to review TV shows, but after a while he used it as an outlet for every subject in society that bothered him, always written with a healthy dose of [[irony]] and [[sarcasm]]. Many readers wrote letters of complaint and after a while no magazine was willing to let him publish on their pages anymore. | ||
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| - | In 1960 he and Eddy Ryssack also made a comic strip, ''De geheime avonturen van Kapitein Matthias'' (''The secret adventures of Captain Matthias''), based on the popularity of the TV show ''[[Schipper naast Mathilde]]''. The comic was published in ''HUMO''. | ||
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| - | ==Radio and television== | ||
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| - | Anthierens was known for his love of [[chanson]], especially the anarchic lyrics of [[Léo Ferré]], [[Georges Brassens]] and [[Jacques Brel]]. In the 1960s he presented his own radioshow, ''Charme van het Chanson'' on public radio and played both French-language songs as well as Dutch and Flemish [[kleinkunst]]. He provoked the censors by giving a banned song by Ferré airplay and ducked another ban by reading the lyrics of [[Hugo Raspoet]]'s anti-papal song "[[Evviva Il Papa]]" out loud rather than play the song. Anthierens was fired afterwards. | ||
| - | In 1998 Anthierens would write a biography about Brel, called "De passie en de pijn" ("The passion and the pain"), which was a personal declaration of his love for the man's music, complete with interviews he conducted with him in the past. | ||
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| - | From 1976 on Anthierens was a panel member in the TV quiz show ''De Wies Andersen Show''. In the first episode he caused a media scandal by claiming: "I am happily divorced." Together with Monica Moritz and Guido Depraetere he presented "Bij Nader Inzien". In 1978 he hosted the talkshow ''Noord-Zuid'' (''North-South''), together with Dutch TV presenter [[Mies Bouwman]]. In one episode Dutch singer [[Vader Abraham]] was the guest of the evening. Anthierens made no secret of his hatred of the man's music and after he insinuated that the singer had not paid [[Peyo]] the rights to make a hit song about [[The Smurfs]] Abraham stood up and left the show in anger. This was not the first incident, as earlier he had also criticized [[Will Tura]] and [[Leo Tindemans]], but Abraham's departure caused such a media storm that Anthierens was fired. Bouwman was offered to continue the show with a different host, but she declined this offer and thus the entire program was cancelled. | ||
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| - | ==De Zwijger== | ||
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| - | In 1982 Anthierens quit his job at ''Knack'' to start his own magazine, ''De Zwijger'' (''The Silent One''). It was inspired by ''[[Le Canard Enchaîné]]'' and intended as a satirical and opinionated news magazine. Unfortunately it remained nothing more but a cult magazine and as Anthierens was unable to combine his writings with running the magazine in general it was disestablished in 1985. | ||
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| - | ==Later years== | ||
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| - | Anthierens had made so many enemies over the years that he hardly found work in other magazines. He was allowed back on television, however, and made a travel show about his idols [[Willem Elsschot]] and [[Jacques Brel]], about whom he also wrote books, one published in 1992, the other in 1998. In 1994 he was co-presenter of the archive show "Gisteren Gekeken?" (1994-1996). During his later years he was best known for writing personal essays and books criticizing the Belgian [[monarchy]], the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, commercialization and sensationalism in Flemish media and the rise of the far-right. He also wrote a book about [[Irma Laplasse]], a Flemish collaborator during [[World War II]] ("Zonder Vlagvertoon") and the resistance leader Albert Vandamme. He also wrote the text for a book about [[GAL (cartoonist)|GAL]], one of his friends. | ||
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| - | Anthierens was also popular in the Netherlands and a frequent guest in the Amsterdam Center for Flemish Culture "[[De Brakke Grond]]. He also published in ''[[de Volkskrant]]''. | ||
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| - | ==Death== | ||
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| - | In 2000 Anthierens died at the age of 62 of [[Hodgkin's disease]]. At his funeral [[GAL (cartoonist)|GAL]] was one of the pall-bearers. | ||
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| - | ==Bibliography== | ||
| - | ;Works (a selection) | ||
| - | *1976 ''De flauwgevallen priester op mijn tong: vijftien op prijs gestelde Ooggetuige-kronieken'', ''Knack'' – jaargang 1975. Walter Soethoudt, Antwerpen. | ||
| - | *1986 ''Het Belgische domdenken: smaadschrift'', Kritak, Leuven. | ||
| - | *1990 ''Brief aan een postzegel: kritisch koningsboek'', Kritak, Leuven (about the monarchy). | ||
| - | *1992 ''[[Willem Elsschot]]. Het Ridderspoor'', Kritak, Leuven. | ||
| - | *1993 ''Tricolore tranen: [[Baudouin of Belgium|Boudewijn]] en het augustusverdriet'', EPO, Berchem. | ||
| - | *1995 ''Vaarwel, mijn 1995'', EPO, Berchem. | ||
| - | *1995 ''[[Zonder vlagvertoon]]'', Van Halewijck, Leuven (about the Resistance during WW2). | ||
| - | *1996 ''De overspannen jaren. Opgetekend van 1960 tot 1996'' (met [[GAL (cartoonist)|Gerard Alsteens]]), EPO, Berchem. | ||
| - | *1996 ''De [[IJzertoren]]. Onze trots en onze schande'', Van Halewijck, Leuven. | ||
| - | *1998 ''[[Jacques Brel]]. De passie en de pijn'', L. J. Veen, Amsterdam. | ||
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| - | ;Autobiography | ||
| - | *2003 ''Leve Mij . Niemands meester, niemands knecht (part 1)'' (compiled by [[Brigitte Raskin]] & [[Karel Anthierens]]), Van Halewijck, Leuven. | ||
| - | *2005 ''Ooggetuige. Niemands meester, niemands knecht (part 2)'', Van Halewijck, Leuven. | ||
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| - | ==2021 VRT documentary== | ||
| - | [[Guinevere Claeys]] presented a documentary on Anthierens featuring [[Hugo Camps]], [[Rik Van Cauwelaert]], [[Peter Vandermeersch]], [[Joël De Ceulaer]], [[Mia Doornaert]], [[Marc Reynebeau]], [[Karl Van den Broeck]], [[Karl Drabbe]], [[Bruno De Wever]], [[Joachim Pohlmann]], [[Caroline Pauwels]]. | ||
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| - | ==See also== | ||
| - | * [[Flemish literature]] | ||
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Pierre "Peyo" Culliford (25 June 1928 – 24 December 1992) was a Belgian comics writer and artist who worked under the pseudonym Peyo. His best-known works are the comic strips The Smurfs and Johan and Peewit, in which the Smurfs first appeared.
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