S.J. Pretorius - Revision history

Satj: /* Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance */

2022-05-31T04:22:52Z

Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance

Satj: /* Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance */

2022-05-31T04:22:22Z

Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance

Satj: /* Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance */

2022-05-31T04:21:52Z

Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance

Satj: /* Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance */

2022-05-31T04:16:42Z

Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance

Satj: /* Biography */

2019-06-26T09:10:28Z

Biography

Satj: /* Biography */

2019-06-26T09:10:11Z

Biography

Satj: /* Biography */

2019-06-26T09:08:20Z

Biography

Satj at 05:27, 26 June 2019

2019-06-26T05:27:50Z

Satj: /* Biography */

2019-06-26T04:56:24Z

Biography

Satj: Created page with "S.J. Pretorius (1917–1995) was an Afrikaans poet, journalist, dramatist, radio announcer and academic. ==Biography== Born Sarel Jakob Pretorius on 7 January 191..."

2019-06-26T04:53:43Z

Created page with "S.J. Pretorius (1917–1995) was an Afrikaans poet, journalist, dramatist, radio announcer and academic. ==Biography== Born Sarel Jakob Pretorius on 7 January 191..."

New page

[[S.J. Pretorius]] (1917–1995) was an [[Afrikaans]] poet, journalist, dramatist, radio announcer and academic.

==Biography==

Born Sarel Jakob Pretorius on 7 January 1917 in Postmasburg in the Cape Province, where he went to school for the first while, before matriculating from the Potchefstroom Gimnasium and going on to study at the Potchefstroom Univwersity College (PUK) from 1934 to 1938.

He began his career as teacher in 1939 in Johannesburg, marrying the violist Anna Swanepoel in 1943. They had three children. In 1947 he briefly worked as a journalist as co-editor of an Afrikaans journal, before becoming a translator for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in 1948. In this period he would translate and adapt numerous dramas into Afrikaans. In 1952 he returned to university to study literature (this included a period of doctoral study in the Netherlands), eventually completing a doctorate at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1964.

He had another period as translator at the SABC (1957-1962), before being appoijnted a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of South Africa, where he remained till his retirement as Proifessor in 1982. He died on 31 March 1995 in Johannesburg.

https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarel_Jacob_Pretorius

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 ''[[In the Zone]]'' by Eugene O'Neill (as ''[[In die Gevaarsone]]''),
-He also adapted ''[[Jy's Reg (As Dit Vir Jou So Voorkom)]]'' ([[C.G.S. de Villiers]]'s [[Afrikaans]] translation of Pirandello's ''[[Cosi è (se vi pare)]]'') for radio.
+He also adapted ''[[Jy's Reg (As Dit Vir Jou So Voorkom)]]'' - [[C.G.S. de Villiers]]'s [[Afrikaans]] translation of Pirandello's ''[[Cosi è (se vi pare)]]'' - for radio.
 ==Sources==

@@ Line 20: / Line 20: @@
 ''[[In the Zone]]'' by Eugene O'Neill (as ''[[In die Gevaarsone]]''),
-He also adapted ''[[Jy's Reg (As dit vir jou so Voorkom)]]'' ([[C.G.S. de Villiers]]'s [[Afrikaans]] translation of Pirandello's ''[[Cosi è (se vi pare)]]'') for radio.
+He also adapted ''[[Jy's Reg (As Dit Vir Jou So Voorkom)]]'' ([[C.G.S. de Villiers]]'s [[Afrikaans]] translation of Pirandello's ''[[Cosi è (se vi pare)]]'') for radio.
 ==Sources==

@@ Line 18: / Line 18: @@
 ''[[Playing with Fire]]'' (Strindberg) as ''[[Wie Met Vuur Speel]]'' ("he who plays with fire") for radio (subsequently adapted for the stage by [[Herman Pretorius]]).
 ''[[In the Zone]]'' by Eugene O'Neill (as ''[[In die Gevaarsone]]''),
 ==Sources==

← Older revision		Revision as of 04:16, 31 May 2022
Line 14:		Line 14:


−	He translated/adapted a number of international plays into [[Afrikaans]], including ''[[Playing with Fire]]'' (Strindberg) as ''[[Wie Met Vuur Speel]]'' ("he who plays with fire") for radio (subsequently adapted for the stage by [[Herman Pretorius]]).	+	He translated/adapted a number of international plays into [[Afrikaans]], often for radio, including:
		+
		+	''[[Playing with Fire]]'' (Strindberg) as ''[[Wie Met Vuur Speel]]'' ("he who plays with fire") for radio (subsequently adapted for the stage by [[Herman Pretorius]]).
		+
		+	''[[In the Zone]]'' by Eugene O'Neill (as ''[[In die Gevaarsone]]''),
		+
		+	==Sources==


	https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarel_Jacob_Pretorius		https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarel_Jacob_Pretorius

@@ Line 7: / Line 7: @@
 He began his career as teacher in 1939 in Johannesburg, marrying the violist Anna Swanepoel in 1943. They had three children. In 1947 he briefly worked as a journalist as co-editor of an Afrikaans journal, before becoming a translator for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in 1948. In 1952 he returned to university to study literature (this included a period of doctoral study in the Netherlands), eventually completing a doctorate at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] in 1964.
-He had another period as translator at the SABC (1957-1962), before being appointed a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of South Africa, where he remained till his retirement as Proifessor in 1982. He died on 31 March 1995 in Johannesburg.
+He had another period as translator at the SABC (1957-1962), before being appointed a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of South Africa, where he remained till his retirement as Professor in 1982. He died on 31 March 1995 in Johannesburg.
 ==Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance==

@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
 He had another period as translator at the SABC (1957-1962), before being appointed a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of South Africa, where he remained till his retirement as Proifessor in 1982. He died on 31 March 1995 in Johannesburg.
-Contribution
+==Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance==
 Besides his 15 collections of poetry, short stories and literary essays, he wrote a few radio and stage dramas, including ''[[Noag]]'' (a biblical radio drama broadcast in 1970 by the [[Afrikaans]] service of the [[SABC]], and published in the collection ''[[Drie Bybelhoorspele]]'' collated by Leendert Dekker); .
-He translated a number of international plays into [[Afrikaans]], including [[Playing with Fire]] (Strindberg) as ''[[Wie Met Vuur Speel]]'' ("he who plays with fire") for the radio (subsequently adapted for the stage by [[Herman Pretorius]]).
+He translated/adapted a number of international plays into [[Afrikaans]], including ''[[Playing with Fire]]'' (Strindberg) as ''[[Wie Met Vuur Speel]]'' ("he who plays with fire") for radio (subsequently adapted for the stage by [[Herman Pretorius]]).
 https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarel_Jacob_Pretorius

← Older revision		Revision as of 09:08, 26 June 2019
Line 12:		Line 12:

	Besides his 15 collections of poetry, short stories and literary essays, he wrote a few radio and stage dramas, including ''[[Noag]]'' (a biblical radio drama broadcast in 1970 by the [[Afrikaans]] service of the [[SABC]], and published in the collection ''[[Drie Bybelhoorspele]]'' collated by Leendert Dekker); .		Besides his 15 collections of poetry, short stories and literary essays, he wrote a few radio and stage dramas, including ''[[Noag]]'' (a biblical radio drama broadcast in 1970 by the [[Afrikaans]] service of the [[SABC]], and published in the collection ''[[Drie Bybelhoorspele]]'' collated by Leendert Dekker); .
		+
		+
		+	He translated a number of international plays into [[Afrikaans]], including [[Playing with Fire]] (Strindberg) as ''[[Wie Met Vuur Speel]]'' ("he who plays with fire") for the radio (subsequently adapted for the stage by [[Herman Pretorius]]).


	https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarel_Jacob_Pretorius		https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarel_Jacob_Pretorius

@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 ==Biography==
-Born Sarel Jakob Pretorius on 7 January 1917 in Postmasburg in the Cape Province, where he went to school for the first while, before matriculating from the Potchefstroom Gimnasium and going on to study at the Potchefstroom Univwersity College (PUK) from 1934 to 1938.
+Born Sarel Jakob Pretorius on 7 January 1917 in Postmasburg in the Cape Province, where he went to school for the first while, before matriculating from the Potchefstroom Gimnasium and going on to study at the [[Potchefstroom University College]] ([[PUK]]) from 1934 to 1938.
-He began his career as teacher in 1939 in Johannesburg, marrying the violist Anna Swanepoel in 1943. They had three children. In 1947 he briefly worked as a journalist as co-editor of an Afrikaans journal, before becoming a translator for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in 1948. In this period he would translate and adapt numerous dramas into Afrikaans.  In 1952 he returned to university to study literature (this included a period of doctoral study in the Netherlands), eventually completing a doctorate at the University of the Witwatersrand in 1964.
+He began his career as teacher in 1939 in Johannesburg, marrying the violist Anna Swanepoel in 1943. They had three children. In 1947 he briefly worked as a journalist as co-editor of an Afrikaans journal, before becoming a translator for the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) in 1948. In 1952 he returned to university to study literature (this included a period of doctoral study in the Netherlands), eventually completing a doctorate at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]] in 1964.
 He had another period as translator at the SABC (1957-1962), before being appoijnted a lecturer in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of South Africa, where he remained till his retirement as Proifessor in 1982. He died on 31 March 1995 in Johannesburg.