Hans Teeuwen Biography, Age, Career And Shows, Echte Rancune,Tickets

Hans Teeuwen Biography

Hans Teeuwen (Hans Eduard Marie Teeuwen) was born on 3 March 1967. He is a Dutch comedian, musician, actor and occasional filmmaker. His work has been described as absurdist, apolitical and confrontational.

Hans Teeuwen Age

Hans Teeuwen was born on 3 March 1967. He is currently 51 years.

Hans Teeuwen Political View

Although his work is typically devoid of politics, in real life he has repeatedly and openly acted as a fervent supporter of freedom of speech, especially after the murder of his friend Theo van Gogh. His eulogy and speech at the unveiling of a statue in memory of Van Gogh was an example of his views. A video clip of Teeuwen advocating freedom of speech while being interviewed by three female TV presenters has been chosen as “Dutch TV Moment of 2007”

Hans Teeuwen Wife

He had a relationship with his co-star Kim van Kooten at the time of the production of Jesus, a Palestinian (1999). This had already arisen before the recordings. He then had two more relationships with an actress, namely with Tara Elders and with Nova van Dijk . Him and his girlfriend Eva became parents of a daughter in September 2013.

Hans Teeuwen Career And Shows

Theatre

In the Netherlands, Teeuwen became well known in 1991 when he won an award at the Dutch cabaret festival Cameretten for his show Heist, together with his friend Roland Smeenk. Just before the ending of the try-outs of this show, Smeenk died in a car accident in 1992.

He decided to go solo as a ‘cabaretier’. (Dutch cabaret is a sort of stand-up comedy often lasting for an hour or two, which has a storyline or theme, and can include songs, music and poetry as opposed to purely stand-up comedy.) Initially he did five shows, Hard en Zielig (Hard and Sad, 1994–1995), Met een Breierdeck (With a Breierdeck, 1995–1997), Trui (Sweater, 1999–2000), Dat Dan Weer Wel (2001–2002, a free translation of the title into English could be Mind You or On the Other Hand) and Industry of Love (2003–2004). Then after seven years he made a comeback in 2011 with his show Spiksplinter (free translation: Spick and Span, as in ‘spick-and-span-new’), followed some years later by Echte Rancune (Real Rancor) in 2016.

One of the other comedy projects he has worked on is Poelmo, Slaaf van het Zuiden (Poelmo, Slave of the South), a series of shorter comedy shows with his friends and colleagues Pieter Bouwman and Gummbah. Bouwman and Teeuwen also worked together on a radio comedy show that was mainly improvised, called Mannen van de Radio (Men of the Radio).

TV & film

Apart from a few comic parts with popular Dutch absurdistic comedy group Jiskefet, he acted in the 1999 film Jezus is een Palestijn (Jesus is a Palestinian). Together with Theodor Holman he co-created the idea for the film Interview, directed by Theo van Gogh in 2003 (and remade in 2007 in the USA by Steve Buscemi). He wrote and directed the film Masterclass in 2005. A couple of years later, he starred in the film Gewoon Hans (Just Hans), written and directed by friend and colleague Diederik Ebbinge from comedy group De Vliegende Panters ( The Flying Panthers”); this film premiered on Dutch television on 30 December 2009, and was released on DVD in January 2010.

Singing career

From 2006 onwards, he performed as a crooner in an Amsterdam nightclub, ultimately resulting in a DVD entitled Hans Teeuwen Zingt, on which he sings songs by artists such as Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra, together with his band. In 2008, he performed at the North Sea Jazz Festival. He released a CD consisting of self-written songs, entitled How It Aches, in March 2010. A CD in Dutch language entitled Popstukken appeared in 2015.

International career

In 2005, he announced he would no longer perform, incidentally coinciding with the death of director and close friend Theo van Gogh. However, in 2007 he decided to try a new challenge: performing in English. He appeared at the 2007 Edinburgh Festival Fringe as part of the Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective, which spurred him to do a longer show. In 2008 he performed solo at the Soho Theatre in London. He also returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008, and performed at Suffolk’s 2008 Latitude Festival. In October 2008, he performed a show in the Leicester Square Theatre, London that was recorded for a future DVD release. In 2009, he performed at the Leicester Comedy Festival and the Belfast Festival at Queen’s.

Hans Teeuwen Biography, Age, Career And Shows, Echte Rancune,Tickets