Fred Engelen

ENGELEN, Fred. (1912-1967) Actor, director, academic. **

Married to Tine Balder, and they have two children Jan Engelen and Mariette Engelen

He was involved with the municipal theatre in Antwerp, and in 1955 in charge of the studio for young actors at the Royal Flemish Theatre in Antwerp. In 195* he visits the School of Speech and Drama at UCT to produce Georges Bernano’s Dialogues of the Carmelites with the students (in Donald Inskip's translation titled The Chosen of God). * He also does The Trial by Franz Kafka (1960), Max Frisch's Andorra (195*) and a professional production of Die Koopman van Venesië (1960) for *? at the Little Theatre. In 1961*? Engelen was invited back to South Africa to become the first professor and head of the Drama Department at the University of Stellenbosch. He held this position until his unexpected death from complications after an appendicitis operation, while on study leave in Germany (1967). He produced and acted in many plays for the Department, including **, Macbeth (1967), **. Also did professional work in the country including Besoek van die Ou Dame (NTO, 1962), ***

[FdV, TH]

Sources

Inskip, 197*;

Tucker, 1997

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