Exceeding the boundaries: strip cartoonists Theo van den Boogaard and Rudolf Kahl

The strip cartoonists Rudolf Kahl and Theo van den Boogaard exceed boundaries in word and image. Kahl does this by his inventarisation of the German Nazi uniforms and Van den Boogaard by his shameless, candid strip cartoons. In Dutch.

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Date and time Saturday 18 January 2014 22:05 tot 22:55 uur
Location Theater aan het Spui - Zaal 1

For Rudolf Kahl and Theo van den Boogaard boundaries are there to be crossed, both in word and image. Both strip cartoonists break taboos and rub and grate with their work. Kahl does this by his inventarisation of German Nazi uniforms and by telling the German side of the story of WOII. Van den Boogaard does it by being part of the sexual revolution with his shameless, candid strip cartoons about sex. With his cartoon hero Sjef van Oekel he created a modern Tijl Uilenspiegel. In Dutch.

Peter Breedveld

(Apeldoorn, NL, 1968) entered the public eye as founder and editor-in-chief of Frontaal Naakt (Frontal Nude), which he calls a "fundamentalist-hedonistic webzine for the whole family that tries to tamper with taboos and certainties and truths set in stone." According to Breedveld, the project is meant to be completely ironic, although many people don't understand this. He launched the webzine seven years ago out of frustration with the politically correct climate surrounding multicultural society, which became unbearable to him after the murder of Dutch filmmaker Teo van Gogh. He spoke up against the new political correctness of Geert Wilders and his populist PVV party, and against the dictatorship of the influential Dutch right-wing populist newspaper De Telegraaf. Breedveld also works for the magazine Ad Valvas of the Amsterdam Free University, and is a freelance writer about comic books, including for Vrij Nederland magazine. Previously, Breedveld was editor-in-chief of Naturisme magazine and a staff member of Stripschrift, De Haagsche Courant and the Nederlandse Islamitische Omroep.
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Theo van den Boogaard

(Castricum, 1948) as a strip cartoonist is well-known for his Sjef van Oekel cartoons. At age fifteen his first strip cartoon book was published. After that he wrote cartoon strips for among others Hitweek, in which he ridiculed society on the basis of song-texts. Later he wrote strip cartoons for among others Voetbal International. In 1976 his first Sjef van Oekel strip appeared in Nieuwe Revu, based on the well-known but somewhat controversial tv creation by Wim T. Schippers - played by Dolf Brouwers. The successful series was discontinued because Brouwers, who got nothing for being portrayed, no longer wanted to be depicted as a cursing man keen on porn. In recent years Van den Boogaard has chosen another road with cartoons about Amsterdam and the album Bob Dylan Illustrated (under his penname Theo Bogart) with drawings based on Dylan songs. He recently performed with his Dylan repertoire, whereby he sings showing images from his strip cartoons.
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Rudolf Kahl

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