Lodewijk de Boer

Date of birth
11-02-1937
Date deceased
04-06-2006

Biography

Lodewijk de Boer trained as a violinist at the Amsterdam Conservatory. He then worked as a violist for Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra. Beginning in the mid-1960s, he also became also involved in the theatre arts. He wrote the libretto for the opera Labyrint by Peter Schat, for example, and for several years he was a director in the theatre company Studio.

In the early 1970s, De Boer became well known for The Family, a theatrical play that he wrote and directed, about a number of young people living in a squatted house. In 1973 it won the ‘Critics’ Prize’, and was adapted as a film, directed by De Boer, in the same year.

In those same years, Lodewijk de Boer acted in a number of films by Frans Zwartjes. He also composed the music for Zwartjes’ films in collaboration with a number of other composers, including Rudolf and Frans Zwartjes and the sound artist Michel Waisvisz.

De Boer worked until his death in 2004 as a theatre and television writer and director, as the librettist for people such as Willem Breuker, and as a composer. In 2003, he was in charge of reconstructing the dialogues for the film Zeemansvrouwen (1930), the Netherlands’ final silent film, which was re-released in 2003 as a sound film.

filmography

  1. 1968
    Actor
  2. 1969
    Actor, Composer
  3. 1970
    Actor
  4. 1970
    Composer
  5. 1970
    Actor
  6. 1970
    Actor
  7. 1972
    Composer
  8. 1973
    Composer
  9. 1973
    Director, Script writer
  10. 1973
    Dialogue, Script writer
  11. 1979
    Composer
  12. 1981
    Composer
  13. 1999
    Actor

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