Looking back on the commemoration day

The commemorative programme revolved around a SYMPOSIUM in the Zonheuvel conference centre, on the afternoon of Saturday 26 September 2016, with a short introductory programme in the Maarten Maartens House.

The programme included the following items:

Opening by the deputy mayor of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug Municipality, Jan Willem van Dongen, and unveiling of the Maarten Maartens Allee
‘Writing at Zonheuvel. The story of Maarten Maartens’, by storyteller Anne van Delft
Appearance by André van Zwieten, town poet of Wijk bij Duurstede, including a poem written especially for the commemoration “What I still wanted to write to you”
SYMPOSIUM about Maartens’ body of ideas, the themes in his work and his literary legacy. The host was Dr. Bouwe Postmus, chairman of the Maarten Maartens Foundation, who also presented a collection he had compiled of Maartens’ short stories that had never been published in book form before. Speakers at the symposium were:
– Arjan Peters, literary critic and editor of de Volkskrant: In defiance of forgetting Maarten Maartens (pdf)
– Dr Hendrik Breuls, PhD in Maartens in 2004: Lecture (pdf)
– Dr Anna Christina Giovanopoulos: Lecture (pdf)
– storyteller Anne van Delft with a reading of a short story by Maartens: Her last word (pdf)


_{Registration of participants}


_{Unveiling of the Maarten Maartens Allee: Bouwe Postmus and deputy mayor of the Utrechtse Heuvelrug Municipality, Jan Willem van Dongen}		_{André van Zwieten}	_{Anne van Delft in the Porseleinkamer (Porcelain Room)}


		_{Introduction by Bouwe Postmus}


_{Presentation of the first copy of the collection of short stories ‘At Home and Abroad’ to the oldest member of the family, Mrs J. Wichers Hoeth-van der Laan}	_{Arjan Peters}	_{Dr. Anna-Christina Giovanopoulos}	_{Dr. Hendrik Breuls}