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Viviane

July 25, 2024

Anton van Duinkerken was actually called Willem Asselbergs and was a real Bergen resident. He lived from 1903 to 1968 and was a poet, journalist, writer, correspondent, scientist and orator.

Anton was the eldest of nine children of beer brewer Toon Asselbergs and Cor van Loon. As a young boy, the Bergen resident studied to become a priest at the seminary in Hoeven. During that training he started writing, but apparently the priests did not like it: Anton was banned from writing. In order to be able to write, he chose a pseudonym for his first publications: Toon (later Anton) van Duinkerken, under the assumption that his Asselberg ancestors came from Dunkirk in Northern France. He carried that name all his life.

As literature became increasingly important to him, he left the seminary. In 1927 he attended carnival in Bergen op Zoom for the first time, together with a girl Leonie Arnolds, who later became his wife. On September 8, 1930, he married Leonie Arnolds in Bergen op Zoom and moved to Amsterdam, where he became editor of the daily newspaper De Tijd. After one evening he was so impressed that he wrote his first major essay, Defense of Carnival, in just a few days.

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Viviane

July 25, 2024

Anton van Duinkerken died of cancer in Nijmegen in 1968. When he died, the Anton van Duinkerken Monument Committee was founded in Bergen op Zoom. That committee commissioned Hein Vree to make a statue of our Anton. It was first located on Sint-Josephplein, close to the house where this Bergen poet was born, Sint-Josephstraat 9. In 2003 it moved to the Grote Markt, where it still stands today.

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Katrien

August 14, 2024

Anton van Duinkerken (1903 - 1968), pseudonym of Willem Asselbergs, was born in Bergen op Zoom. Asselbergs manifested himself as a poet, journalist, writer, correspondent, scientist and orator. He was one of the most important emancipators of the Catholic Church. In 1952 he was appointed professor of Dutch Language and Literature at the Catholic University of Nijmegen. Immediately after his death, the Monument Committee Anton van Duinkerken was established in his hometown.

Hein Vree was commissioned to make the statue that originally stood on the Sint-Josephplein, near his birthplace Sint-Josephstraat 9. Vree depicted Van Duinkerken in his characteristic pose as an entertaining conversationalist. Due to a major renovation of this part of the city, the so-called Paradeplan, the statue was moved to the Grote Markt in 2003.

Source: kidor.nl/kunstwerk.aspx?ID=28

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Location: Bergen Op Zoom, North Brabant, Netherlands

Anton van Duinkerken Statue

1. Connecting Bridge Bergse Heide – Landschapspark De Bergse Heide loop from Gageldonk

2. Pompejus Observation Tower – Markiezenhof Palace loop from Jankenberg

3. Markiezenhof Palace – Gevangenpoort Bergen op Zoom loop from Bergen op Zoom

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