Kobus Louw

There are four people by the name of Kobus Louw involved in the performing arts in South Africa

Kobus Louw (1945-1983?)

Playwright, radio and TV scriptwriter, journalist.

Biography

Born in Ventersburg, Orange Free State, he completed his high school at Grey College, Bloemfontein, in 1962. Among his classmates were a number of other theatre personalities, including theatre practitioner Johan Geyser, the journalists/critics John-Murray Viljoen and Braam Muller, the theatre researcher Temple Hauptfleisch and the actor and director Johan Bernard. After a year as a conscript in the South African Air Force, he studied for a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics at the University of the Orange Free State, finishing in 1966.

Career

He joined the staff of Die Volksblad in Bloemfontein as a reporter in 1967, and in this period began to write plays for radio. In 1969 he moved to Johannesburg, to become a press agent for a film company and later joined the editorial staff of Die Huisgenoot, a popular weekly magazine.

In 1975 he joined SABC TV as a scriptwriter.

He was married to Lynette Joubert, and the couple had two children, a son, author Jaco Louw and a daughter, TV scriptwriter Sonja Mae Louw.

Louw tragically died of a heart attack in 1982/3?.

Contribution to Theatre, Film, Media and Performance in South Africa

Louw wrote numerous radio plays, of which the haunting one-act Die Watertoring is perhaps the best (broadcast in 19**, published in 197*). His radio series Die Seepsteenbataljon was broadcast by the SABC in June 1972. In January 1978 it was presented as a television series by SABC TV and novelized for publication by Tafelberg-Uitgewers in 1978.

He truly became a household name with his TV scripts, the most famous of these being Willem (1976), a comic detective series which made Tobie Cronjé nationally famous , Dokter Dokter (a sitcom set in a hospital, 1976-1977), and Drama-Drama (1978).

Sources

Personal recollections by Temple Hauptfleisch

https://www.netwerk24.com/sarie/5-boekminute-met-jaco-louw-20170914

Kobus Louw. 1978. Die Seepsteenbataljon, Cape Town: Tafelberg Uitgewers.

Kobus Louw (circa 1958-)

An actor.

Biography

He studied drama at Stellenbosch University.

Contribution to Theatre, Film, Media and Performance in South Africa

He played the role of "Pieter Faure" in a student performance of the play Die Swakkere Vat at the 1978 USAT Dramafees while studying at Stellenbosch University.

Kobus Louw (circa 1972-)

Director, Videographer and Editor.

Biography

Completed his schooling at Strand High School (1990-1995), then did a course in Graphic Design, at the Kensington and Chelsea College, London (1998) and a workshop for Advertising Art (Art Directors Workshop, Cape Town, 2000). Followed this up by a range of courses on aspects of film making at various institutions, including American Independent Cinema, (Edinburgh University, Edinburgh) and Introduction to Filmmaking (Panico Productions, London) in 2002, courses in Camera Assistants (2003, 2004) and one in Film and Documentary Lighting (Media Film Services, Cape Town, 2010)

Sources

http://www.kobuslouwfilms.com/

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Kobus Louw ()

Biography

Born in Namibia, he completed a BFA in film production at AFDA (South African School of Live Performance and Motion Picture Medium). His passion for film then led him to the USA, where he completed an MFA in Screenwriting at the New York Film Academy.

He later moved back to South Africa.

Contribution to Theatre, Film, Media and Performance in South Africa

Between 2014 and 2018 he directed 8 short films as part of his studies. They are:

While at AFDA he wrote and directed: For Better of Worse (2014), Bereave (2014), End of the Beginning (2015),

Sources

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9437372/bio/?ref_=nm_ov

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9437372/

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