Maatstaf Explained

Maatstaf was a Dutch literary magazine, founded in 1953 by Bert Bakker.^[1] Bakker, who was the magazine's first editor, is credited with bringing in poets such as Ida Gerhardt.^[2] The magazine had a reputation for publishing "realist" authors (such as Maarten 't Hart),^[3] and was categorized as "neoromantic," one of a number of Dutch literary magazines in an "anti-experimental tradition."^[4] Dutch poet Gerrit Komrij, who edited the magazine from 1969 on, was the subject of a themed issue in 1984,^[5] and again in 1996, this last time centered on a collection of ten homo-erotic poems he had published in 1978, Capriccio. In that same year, 1996, the magazine, with a new team of editors, was renewed following a "conservative revolution."^[6]

Maatstaf was a leading magazine for Dutch poetry until the 1970s, when it was supplanted by magazines such as De Revisor and Raster. In 1999, De Arbeiderspers ceased its publication.^[7]

Editors

• Gerrit Komrij (1969 - ?)^[8]
• Mensje van Keulen (1972^[9] - 1980)^[10]

Notes and References

1. Book: Slot, Pim. Een stille revolutie?: cultuur en mentaliteit in de lange jaren vijftig. 1997. Verloren. 978-90-6550-549-1. 36.
2. Book: Reitsma, Anneke. Een naam en ster als boegbeeld: de poëzie van Ida Gerhardt in symbolistisch perspectief. 1998. Van Gorcum. 978-90-232-3413-5. 15.
3. News: Blom. Onno. Een kroonluchter die weer brandt. 29 November 2010. Trouw. 17 December 1998.
4. Web site: Week 6: Poëzie na 1945: Experimentelen en anti-experimentelen. Utrecht University. 29 November 2010.
5. News: Blom. Onno. 'Deze waereld is niet voor mijn plezier ingericht' of: 'Hier irrt Komrij!'. 29 November 2010. Trouw. 2 March 2004.
6. News: Maas. Michel. Regels van Komrij uitgelegd aan lezers. 29 November 2010. de Volkskrant. 19 March 1996.
7. News: Blom. Onno. Arbeiderspers heft tijdschrift Maatstaf op. 29 November 2010. Trouw. 6 October 1999.
8. News: Fortuin. Arjen. De poëtische tegendraadsheid van Gerrit Komrij. 29 November 2010. NRC Handelsblad. August 1999.
9. Web site: Mensje van Keulen. VPRO. 29 November 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100131044647/http://www.vpro.nl/programma/zomergasten/afleveringen/3730805/. 31 January 2010.
10. News: Schutte. Xandra. Mensje van Keulen: 'Als mijn personages ongelukkig zijn, voel ik me voldaan'. 29 November 2010. Vrij Nederland. 13 December 2006.