Ger Beukenkamp

(1946) confesses to a deep-rooted fascination with the Dutch royal family. ‘Our stories are more beautiful than those of the English royals. Certainly those coming from the 19th century, which tend to be forgotten,’ he said when his history play De Troon (The Throne) was televised in March 2010. Beukenkamp has written some one hundred scripts for the theatre, film and television. Most recently Majesteit (Majesty), a feature film with Carine Crutzen as Queen Beatrix. His tv-drama De Kroon (The Crown) about the Zorreguieta affair won him a Golden Calf in 2005. Beukenkamp was recipient of numerous other awards, including the Lira prize, the Prix d’Italia and another four Golden Calf nominations. In 2003 Beukenkamp published De verborgen schrijver (The hidden writer), which was updated and published again in 2009. This handbook goes into writing dialogue, the struggle between form and content and is interspersed with real-life anecdotes. Beukenkamp teaches at the Scriptschool, the Dutch Film Academy, the University of Utrecht and the Theaterschool Amsterdam.