Hens Clinge Doorenbos
Hens Clinge Doorenbos was a Dutch poet quoted by Anne Frank.
Hens Clinge Doorenbos (1884-1978) was a Dutch journalist, singer and poet. Starting in 1921, Doorenbos wrote a daily poem in De Telegraaf on a current event.[1] Anne quotes two of these poems in her diary, on 5 May and 9 June 1944.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Wikipedia: Clinge Doorenbos.
- ^ Anne Frank, Diary Version A, 5 May 1944 and 9 June 1944, in: The Collected Works, transl. from the Dutch by Susan Massotty, London [etc.]: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2019. The poems are: Kattestrofen (Catastrophes) (De Telegraaf, 27 April 1994) and Zoengevaar (The Kissing Peril) (De Telegraaf, 8 June 1944).