Fred Engelen - Revision history

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	A handwritten text of a TV script headed "''[[Putzonderwater]]'', naar het toneelstuk van Bartho Smit voor de televisie bewerkt door Fred Engelen", found among the possessions of [[Tine Balder]] by their daughter [[Bie Engelen]], in April 2021. (Consulted courtesy of [[Bie Engelen]].)		A handwritten text of a TV script headed "''[[Putzonderwater]]'', naar het toneelstuk van Bartho Smit voor de televisie bewerkt door Fred Engelen", found among the possessions of [[Tine Balder]] by their daughter [[Bie Engelen]], in April 2021. (Consulted courtesy of [[Bie Engelen]].)

−	A typed copy of ''[[ Once More]]'', ~~found in the archives of the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] in 2022. Now~~ held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]]~~, with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street~~, Stellenbosch, South Africa.	+	A typed copy of ''[[ Once More]]'', held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], Stellenbosch, South Africa.

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	A handwritten text of a TV script headed "''[[Putzonderwater]]'', naar het toneelstuk van Bartho Smit voor de televisie bewerkt door Fred Engelen", found among the possessions of [[Tine Balder]] by their daughter [[Bie Engelen]], in April 2021. (Consulted courtesy of [[Bie Engelen]].)		A handwritten text of a TV script headed "''[[Putzonderwater]]'', naar het toneelstuk van Bartho Smit voor de televisie bewerkt door Fred Engelen", found among the possessions of [[Tine Balder]] by their daughter [[Bie Engelen]], in April 2021. (Consulted courtesy of [[Bie Engelen]].)
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		+	A typed copy of ''[[ Once More]]'', found in the archives of the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] in 2022. Now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]] ([[PARC]]) at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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 He was apparently slated to direct ''[[Putzonderwater]]'', his own Flemish adaptation of [[Bartho Smit]]'s [[Afrikaans]] play ''[[Putsonderwater]]'', for Belgian television during his sabbatical. He was meant to arrive in Belgium on 3 December 1967, but his death on 3 December 1967 caused the project to be cancelled at this time.
-He also translated and adapted a number of plays while in South Africa, including ''[[Once More]]'' (a medieval farce),
+He also translated and adapted a number of plays while in South Africa, including ''[[Once More]]'' (a medieval [[Dutch]] farce), of which a typed copy was found in the archives of the [[Stellenbosch Drama Department]] in 2022. Now held in the [[Performing Arts Research Collection]]  ([[PARC]])  at the [[Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation]], with offices at Pieter Okkers House, 7 Joubert Street, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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	He was apparently slated to direct ''[[Putzonderwater]]'', his own Flemish adaptation of [[Bartho Smit]]'s [[Afrikaans]] play ''[[Putsonderwater]]'', for Belgian television during his sabbatical. He was meant to arrive in Belgium on 3 December 1967, but his death on 3 December 1967 caused the project to be cancelled at this time.		He was apparently slated to direct ''[[Putzonderwater]]'', his own Flemish adaptation of [[Bartho Smit]]'s [[Afrikaans]] play ''[[Putsonderwater]]'', for Belgian television during his sabbatical. He was meant to arrive in Belgium on 3 December 1967, but his death on 3 December 1967 caused the project to be cancelled at this time.
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	He also translated and adapted a number of plays while in South Africa, including ''[[Once More]]'' (a medieval farce),		He also translated and adapted a number of plays while in South Africa, including ''[[Once More]]'' (a medieval farce),

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 Born in Antwerp on 20 December 1912, he studied at the Koninklijke Konservatorium in Antwerp where he received the Diploma in Theatre Art ''cum laude'' in 1937. He became involved with the municipal theatre in Antwerp, and in 1955 was in charge of the studio for young actors at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Antwerp.
-He was married to Belgian actress and costumier [[Tine Balder]], and the couple had three children, [[Jan Engelen|Jan]], [[Bie Engelen|Bie]] and Katrijn.
+He was married to Belgian actress and costumier [[Tine Balder]], and the couple had three children, [[Jan Engelen|Jan]], [[Bie Engelen|Bie]] and [[Katrijn Engelen|Katrijn]].
 In 1967 he went on sabbatical leave to the USA and Europe. and unexpectedly had to undergo emergency surgery for appendicitis during his visit to Stuttgart. Sadly, he died there from post operative complications on 3 December 1967.

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 ===The first period===
-In 1955 Engelen was offered work in South Africa as a guest director for the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]], where he directed Georges Bernanos's ''[[Dialogues of the Carmelites]]'' with the students (in [[Donald Inskip]]'s translation titled ''[[The Chosen of God]]'').
+In 1955 Engelen was offered work in South Africa as a guest director for the [[University of Cape Town Drama Department]], where he directed Georges Bernanos's ''[[Dialogues des Carmélites]]'' with the students (in [[Donald Inskip]]'s translation, entitled ''[[The Chosen of God]]'').
 During the period 1955-1p61 he also worked for [[National Theatre Organisation]] ([[NTO]]) and other companies, inter alia directing Max Frisch's ''[[Andorra]]'' (195*), Shakespeare's ''[[Die Koopman van Venesië]]'' (1955) and Kafka's ''[[The Trial]]'' (1960).

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 Typed copy of the translation of ''[[Once More]]'', found in the archives of the Drama Department of Stellenbosch University.
-A handwritten text of the script, headed "''[[Putzonderwater]]'', naar het toneelstuk van Bartho Smit voor de televisie bewerkt door Fred Engelen", found among the possessions of [[Tine Balder]] by their daughter [[Bie Engelen]], in April 2021. (Consulted courtesy of [[Bie Engelen]].)
+A handwritten text of a TV script headed "''[[Putzonderwater]]'', naar het toneelstuk van Bartho Smit voor de televisie bewerkt door Fred Engelen", found among the possessions of [[Tine Balder]] by their daughter [[Bie Engelen]], in April 2021. (Consulted courtesy of [[Bie Engelen]].)
 Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]

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	Typed copy of the translation of ''[[Once More]]'', found in the archives of the Drama Department of Stellenbosch University.		Typed copy of the translation of ''[[Once More]]'', found in the archives of the Drama Department of Stellenbosch University.

		+	A type-written TV adaptation of ''[[Putsonderwater]]'' that [[Fred Engelen]] had prepared for Belgium. (

	Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]		Go to [[ESAT Bibliography]]