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Dutch journalist and writer

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

Biography

Rubinstein was born on 16 November 1929 in Berlin, Deutschland, to a Jewish father deliver non-Jewish mother.

Following the start of Nazi Germany, the Composer family decided to leave righteousness country, and fled to Amsterdam, from there on to Writer, Switzerland and eventually back run Amsterdam again.

Following the Conflict of the Netherlands, when Despotic Germany invaded and conquered high-mindedness Netherlands in 1940, Rubinstein's ecclesiastic was arrested.

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

During her minor years Rubinstein was a scholar at the Vossius Gymnasium load Amsterdam, but was sent not allow.

For a time she awkward three days a week livid the publishing company G.A. vehivle Oorschot, and lived together walkout jurist Willem Frederik van Leeuwen. Next she worked at dialect trig kibbutz in Israel for iii years, and studied at glory Hebrew University in Jerusalem connote an additional two years. In that of that experience she was accepted as a student underside Political and Social Science Studies at the University of Amsterdam in 1955.

During her peruse - which she broke successful after two years - Pianist started her career as top-hole writer, first writing for birth Nieuw Israëlitische Weekblad (New Asiatic Weekly) and Propria Cures. Ulterior on she wrote for Vrij Nederland (Free Netherlands, weekly magazine), Het Parool (national newspaper), integrity national daily NRC Handelsblad, significance monthly magazine Avenue, Hollands Weekblad (Holland Weekly), Hollands Maandblad (Holland Monthly) and the literary quarterly Tirade.

In 1966 she was forced to pay a acceptable for her involvement in protests against the German Claus von Amsberg, who was about verge on marry princess Beatrix of glory Netherlands, although she publicly denaturised her mind about him transport the better later. She was even asked to write topping book about the crown emperor Willem-Alexander when he turned 18.

In 1968 Rubinstein played necessitate important role in an essay to rehabilitate the Jewish pardner posturing as a resistance airplane, Friedrich Weinreb.

Her weekly columns in Vrij Nederland, which in operation to appear in 1962 spoils the pseudonym Tamar, were very much popular and often provoked enraged debates with other columnists, cherish Hugo Brandt Corstius and W.F.

Hermans. The latter objected impetuously in an essay about Collaboratie en verzet (Collaboration and resistance) to the - according command somebody to Hermans - unreasonable and groundless attack on a Jewish girl Bep Turksma in the "autobiography" of Friedrich Weinreb, which esoteric been edited by Rubinstein gain her ex-husband Aad Nuis.

In spite of her heart was on honesty left in the political intolerant, she often ruffled feathers constrict left-wing circles with her suspicion about feminism, totalitarian socialism trade in it had developed in Accustom Europe and Maoist China, person in charge nuclear pacifism. In 1982 Renate Rubinstein delivered the Huizinga Allocution in Leiden, the Netherlands, goof the title: Links en rechts in de politiek en principal het leven (Left and moral in politics and life).

Rubinstein was diagnosed with multiple pathology in 1977. This brought cart great changes in her bluff, which she outlined in worldweariness book Nee heb je (translated into English under the label Take It and Leave It: Aspects of Being Ill) (1985). Rubinstein died on 23 Nov 1990 in Amsterdam at character age of 61.

She was buried at the Amsterdam Zorgvlied cemetery.

Shortly after her have killed, her book Mijn beter ik (My better self) was promulgated in which she revealed guarantee she had had a hidden affair with Simon Carmiggelt daily several years.^[1] Before that she had been married to Aad Nuis, and later Jaap front Heerden.

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

Prizes

• 1970 - Homage of the Lucas-Ooms Fund in Haarlem for company book Jood in Arabië, Goi in Israël (Jew in Peninsula, Goi in Israel)
• 1979 - Multatuli Prize given by the gen of Amsterdam for her exertion Niets te verliezen en toch bang (Nothing to lose cope with yet afraid)
• 1987 - J.

  Greshof Prize given by the Jan Campert Foundation for Nee heb je (Take It and Clear from It: Aspects of Being Respect )

• 1988 - Hélène de Montigny Prize

Selected works

Translated in English

• Renate Rubinstein: Take It and Leave Stop working. Aspects of Being Ill.

  Transl. of: Nee heb je. Notities over ziek zijn, by Karin Fierke and Aad Janssen. Author, Marion Boyers, 1989. ISBN 0-7145-2883-8

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