In December, publisher Clio organized a number of promotional events in Serbia for the book “Vidovnjaci”, about visionary thoughts on the future of Europe during and after the First World War. There was a book presentation in the beautiful bookstore...
This is the English translation of the Prologue of my book The Pack: Histories of dogs and humans in former Yugoslavia. The prologue tells a tale of early 20th century Istanbul, when the Young Turks cleansed the streets of stray...
For the promotion of the Serbian/Croatian translation of "The Visionaries" we made a short video. Concept and research by Ana Ivis. Filming and editing by Jelmer Buitenga. Please have a look (English and Serbian/Croatian subtitles available in YouTube). ...
For the past fifteen years , whenever I’m in Serbia, I hear about the two shows the Dutch crossover-band Urban Dance Squad gave in Belgrade in 1996. On the eve of the major anti-Milosevic protests of the winter of 1996-1997,...
For Non-Dutch audiences, here's a pitch and outline for The Visionaries (De zieners) in English. In Short The Prophets of Europe is a narrative about three roaming utopian intellectuals in the period 1910 to 1939. They mixed with artists, politicians, scientists and...
The visionaries spoke of great secrets, eternal truths, mystical experiences, deep essences and occult encounters. Frederik van Eeden, Erich Gutkind, and certainly Dimitrije Mitrinović, conveyed a message that we can no longer comprehend properly now. That is why I called...
This was written as an introductory essay for the book "Shaky Ground: Traces of the Great War in the Ypres Salient", by Peter Dekens. The idea of European unity, in any case the official entity as it is communicated by the...