Jens in 1974

Ellen Jens (6 October 1940 – 17 November 2023) was a Dutch television director and producer, best known for her collaboration with Wim T. Schippers on VPRO television. She produced and directed a large number of other television shows, especially on literature and art, and was referred to as a "television legend".

Early life and career

Ellen Jens was born in Wassenaar on 6 October 1940.[1] In the early 1970s Jens was a "scriptgirl" working for the VPRO.[2] Starting in 1972 she began working with Wim T. Schippers, producing his shows from 1972 (De Fred Hachéshow) to 1994 (We zijn weer thuis);[3] on many of the shows she is credited as a director and writer as well.[4]

Jens produced and directed Hier is Adriaan van Dis, the talk show hosted by Adriaan van Dis (which ran from 1983 to 1992),[5][6] and was the producer of the long-running VPRO TV show Jiskefet[6][7] and the Schippers series on popular science Flogiston.[8] For presenter Hanneke Groenteman, she produced the talk show on art De Plantage,[9] from 1994 to 2001.[10] From 2005 onwards she produced the TV show VPRO Boeken,[11] a program on literature hosted by Wim Brands, for which she also designed the set (modeled on the set for De Plantage, taped in the Studio Plantage in Artis,[6] in turn modeled on her own house); she was picked (as a "television legend") for her experience with literature, based in part on her work with Adriaan van Dis.[12]

Personal life

In the early 1970s she dated Hugo Claus, at the time when he promoted his novel Het jaar van de kreeft; Claus and Jens were photographed together as part of a campaign to promote the book, which had Claus's love life as its main topic.[2] She lived with Wim T. Schippers in the 1970s and 1980s[5][13] and later married him.[12]

Jens died in Amsterdam on 17 November 2023, at the age of 83.[1]

Select filmography

Entries marked with an asterisk are with Wim T. Schippers

References

  1. 1 2 Death notice (in Dutch)
  2. 1 2 Meijer, Ischa (2003). Connie Palmen (ed.). De interviewer en de schrijvers. Amsterdam: Prometheus.
  3. ↑ Heytze, Ingmar; Tuinman, Vrouwkje (2000). Verdomd Interessant, Maar Gaat U Verder: De Taal van Wim T. Schippers (in Dutch). The Hague: Sdu. p. 59. ISBN 9057970775.
  4. ↑ "Ellen Jens". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  5. 1 2 Abrahams, Frits (22 April 2008). "Dag: Van Dis". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 12 October 2014. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  6. 1 2 3 "VARA neemt afscheid van Studio Plantage". Broadcast Magazine (in Dutch). 23 July 2012. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  7. ↑ "60 jaar documentaire: De keuze van Ellen Jens" (in Dutch). Holland Doc. 4 August 2011. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  8. ↑ Kubbinga, Henk. De molecularisering van het wereldbeeld. Verloren. p. 20. ISBN 9789065507310. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  9. ↑ "Hanneke Groenteman: 'Ik zag er uit als 'n soort Spongebob'". Eindhovens Dagblad (in Dutch). 9 April 2009. Retrieved 20 August 2013.
  10. ↑ "Kunst op tv sneuvelt door slijtage bij makers". Trouw (in Dutch). 31 March 2000. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  11. ↑ "Boeken - televisie" (in Dutch). VPRO. Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  12. 1 2 Helder, Carel (25 May 2012). "Boeken kijk je zo". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 August 2013.
  13. ↑ Heytze, Ingmar; Tuinman, Vrouwkje (2000). Verdomd Interessant, Maar Gaat U Verder: De Taal van Wim T. Schippers. The Hague: Sdu. p. 59. ISBN 9057970775.
  14. ↑ Verbraak, Coen. "Anil Ramdas, kleine professor uit Nickerie". Vrij Nederland (in Dutch). Retrieved 27 August 2013.
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