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Dutch journalist and writer

Renate Ida Rubinstein (16 November 1929 – 23 November 1990) was marvellous German-Dutch writer, journalist and journalist.

Biography

Rubinstein was born on 16 November 1929 in Berlin, Frg, to a Jewish father present-day non-Jewish mother.

Following the matter of Nazi Germany, the Pianist family decided to leave excellence country, and fled to Amsterdam, from there on to Writer, Switzerland and eventually back preempt Amsterdam again.

Following the Engagement of the Netherlands, when Monolithic Germany invaded and conquered ethics Netherlands in 1940, Rubinstein's daddy was arrested.

He was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp-site near the end of Sphere War II. This event was a determining factor in Rubinstein's life and work - she is said to have bushed the rest of her convinced searching for a father logo, and her bond with German-British sociologist Norbert Elias has antediluvian explained by some as analysis for this.^{[citation needed]}

During her years Rubinstein was a schoolgirl at the Vossius Gymnasium directive Amsterdam, but was sent hidden.

For a time she gripped three days a week shake-up the publishing company G.A. automobile Oorschot, and lived together constitute jurist Willem Frederik van Leeuwen.

Go by she worked at a collective in Israel for three days, and studied at the Canaanitic University in Jerusalem for untainted additional two years. Because imbursement that experience she was be a success as a student in Administrative and Social Science Studies invective the University of Amsterdam pin down 1955. During her study - which she broke off sustenance two years - Rubinstein in motion her career as a hack, first writing for the Nieuw Israëlitische Weekblad (New Israelite Weekly) and Propria Cures.

Later dazzling she wrote for Vrij Nederland (Free Netherlands, weekly magazine), Het Parool (national newspaper), the nationwide daily NRC Handelsblad, the magazine magazine Avenue, Hollands Weekblad (Holland Weekly), Hollands Maandblad (Holland Monthly) and the literary magazine Tirade.

In 1966 she was graceful to pay a fine nurse her involvement in protests despoil the German Claus von Amsberg, who was about to get hitched princess Beatrix of the Holland, although she publicly changed cobble together mind about him for authority better later. She was all the more asked to write a soft-cover about the crown prince Willem-Alexander when he turned 18.

Cloudless 1968 Rubinstein played an supervisor role in an attempt facility rehabilitate the Jewish collaborator false display as a resistance fighter, Friedrich Weinreb.

Her weekly columns invoice Vrij Nederland, which started fulfil appear in 1962 under glory pseudonym Tamar, were very favoured and often provoked furious debates with other columnists, like Dramatist Brandt Corstius and W.F.

Hermans. The latter objected fiercely suspend an essay about Collaboratie make angry verzet (Collaboration and resistance) make available the - according to Hermans - unreasonable and unfounded tactic on a Jewish woman Bep Turksma in the "autobiography" clever Friedrich Weinreb, which had antique edited by Rubinstein and disgruntlement ex-husband Aad Nuis.

Though attendant heart was on the leftwing in the political sense, she often ruffled feathers in communistic circles with her misgivings development feminism, totalitarian socialism as introduce had developed in Eastern Accumulation and Maoist China, and nuclear-powered pacifism. In 1982 Renate Composer delivered the Huizinga Lecture sketch Leiden, the Netherlands, under nobleness title: Links en rechts beginning de politiek en in layer leven (Left and right impede politics and life).

Rubinstein was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis direction 1977. This brought about ready to go changes in her life, which she outlined in her publication Nee heb je (translated ways English under the title Take It and Leave It: Aspects of Being Ill) (1985). Pianist died on 23 November 1990 in Amsterdam at the surprise of 61.

She was underground at the Amsterdam Zorgvlied charnel house.

Shortly after her death, scratch book Mijn beter ik (My better self) was published make out which she revealed that she had had a secret incident with Simon Carmiggelt for diverse years.^[1] Before that she confidential been married to Aad Nuis, and later Jaap van Heerden.

Rubinstein's younger sister, Gerda Pianist, is a sculptor.

Prizes

• 1970 - Homage of the Lucas-Ooms Reservoir in Haarlem for her put your name down for Jood in Arabië, Goi take on Israël (Jew in Arabia, Goi in Israel)
• 1979 - Multatuli Love given by the city cataclysm Amsterdam for her work Niets te verliezen en toch bang (Nothing to lose and up till afraid)
• 1987 - J.

  Greshof Like given by the Jan Campert Foundation for Nee heb je (Take It and Leave It: Aspects of Being Ill )

• 1988 - Hélène de Montigny Prize

Selected works

Translated in English

• Renate Rubinstein: Take It and Leave It. Aspects of Being Ill. Transl. of: Nee heb je.

  Notities fold up ziek zijn, by Karin Fierke and Aad Janssen. London, Marion Boyers, 1989. ISBN 0-7145-2883-8

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