Anna Hurkmans
writer
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ANNA
HURKMANS,
writer, translator actress and singer was born in Haarlem (Netherlands),
where she attended secondary school and courses in classical ballet, acting and
singing.
She graduated
at the
In
addition, she wrote and performed
recitals (One woman-shows ): “The mythos Marlene Dietrich”, “Bertolt Brecht
and his Women” ,” Smiles and Tears” with Yiddish songs and texts, “A life in
Black and Roses” on the life and songs of Edith Piaf, “From Berlin to Broadway”
with songs of the roaring twenties, “An Evening in the Cabaret Chat Noir” with
French songs of the “Belle Epoque”, “Baudelaire’s Spleen” with poems of
Baudelaire. Performances took place
in many Italian towns (Rome, Florence, Livorno, Milan, Genoa, Savona,
As
a playwright she
has been awarded several
prizes: “
Awards for short stories: “Premio città di Firenze”
(Florence), “Premio il Prione” (
Awards for
song lyrics: “Premio La canzone che
non c’è” (
The musical
“Don’t cry, Butterfly” about a love
affair between Puccini and Mata Hari has
been workshopped at the Royal Academy of Music and the Central School of Speech
and Drama in London.
She recorded
the CD: “Chansons d’amour” with
famous French songs.
She wrote the
film script and created the
costumes for a short film “minimusical”
directed by Sanny Abe and played the role of a singer in the film “La leggenda
del lago” of Germano di Mattia, roles
in a short film directed by Katriona Munthe , and in the short film “War” by
Antonello Novellino; in two theatre plays of Giorgio Pressburger and in her own
plays “Charlotte Salomon”, “
She
attended courses of creative writing
with famous Italian writers and filmmakers ( Suso Cecchi d’Amico, Age and
Scarpelli, Monicelli, Pontecorvo, Luigi Magni, Ugo Pirro,