Teisterbant club

Last updated February 26, 2019

The Teisterbant club was the name of an artists' society in Haarlem that flourished between 1950 and 1973.

Haarlem City and municipality in North Holland, Netherlands

Haarlem is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland and is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropolitan areas in Europe. Haarlem had a population of 159,556 in 2017. It is a 15-minute train ride from Amsterdam, and many residents commute to the country's capital for work.

In 1949 the Haarlem writer Godfried Bomans sent out a pamphlet inviting "art practitioners, art-lovers and those interested in art" to join his new society, which could hold its meetings in the basement of the restaurant "Brinkman" on the Grote Markt, Haarlem. The name was taken from the pseudonym of Willem Bilderdijk, a Haarlem writer who had believed he was descended from the Teisterbant family of the Duchy of the same name. The capital of medieval Teisterbant was Tiel. Bilderdijk died in the house next door to Brinkman and the facade has a commemorative gable stone to Bilderdijk.

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At the opening of the club, in March 1950, Bomans's Teisterbant had managed to attract 180 members, among them Lodewijk van Deyssel (who died that year), Mari Andriessen, Harry Mulisch and Anton Heyboer. The club organized literary evenings, film evenings, music evenings and chess competitions. The club was disbanded soon after Bomans died.

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Mari Silverster Andriessen was a Dutch sculptor, best known for his work memorializing victims of the Holocaust. Born and died in Haarlem, Andriessen is buried at the RK Begraafplaats Sint Adelberts in Bloemendaal, the Netherlands.

Harry Kurt Victor Mulisch was a Dutch writer. He wrote more than eighty novels, plays, essays, poems, and philosophical reflections. Mulisch's works have been translated into over thirty languages.

In September 2009, the "New Artists Society Teisterbant" was established that also holds its meetings in Restaurant Brinkman. Because the basement rooms no longer exist since a major reconstruction of the housing block, the new group must meet upstairs.

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Teisterbant was a pagus (province) of Lotharingia/Middle Francia. It was located in what is today Vlaardingen, bordered by the rivers Lek, Meuse, Waal and Hollandse IJssel. Modern-day Neder-Betuwe shares most of the same land, while the rest is in Vianen, Culemborg, Batenburg and Geldermalsen. Tiel is the largest city in the area. The historic fiefdoms of Altena, Arkel, Buren, Heusden and Vianen were also part of it.

References

De keldergang der heren, by Louis Ferron, Bussum, Unieboek/De Haan, 1981
Bomans en Teisterbant in Jaarboek Haerlem 1971, by Jan Brants, Haarlem, Schuyt & Co., 1972

Louis Ferron was a Dutch novelist and poet.

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