The Deventerse Bergkwartier this coming weekend will be completely decorated in the style and ambience of the nineteenth century, during the 29th edition of the Dickensfestijn Here. The festival, which is inspired by the tales of Charles Dickens, it attracts some up to 125,000 visitors. There are a lot more of this kind of party. Why are we so offended by the nineteenth-century writer?
the Men with the tall hats and women in Victorian dresses and walk down the street. She steps to the side to see a passing shepherd with his flock of sheep before them. A hoofdknikje to greet him. On a street corner will be selling a man from the roasted chestnuts. This is just a scene for a Hosts are based on the stories by the nineteenth-century English novelist, Charles Dickens, would be able to come.
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In a Hosts, the visitor should get the feeling by the romantic nineteenth-century streets to wander. Well-known characters from the the English language writer, such as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, little street tough, Oliver Twist, or the villain, Uriah Heep, walk around, and react to the audience.
this weekend, there will be the whole of the Netherlands, at least fourteen of these festivals. For example, in the Dutch province ‘overijssel’, the Hague, the city of Tiel, and Drunen, the netherlands. It’s the biggest event of the Dickensfestijn here. So up to 125,000 visitors a year to the two-day celebrations finish. “Last year, it took in the queue during the peak of the busy hour, twelve minutes, and 58 seconds,” recalls the director of Hein te Riele and of itself.
Penchant for nostalgia-and nineteenth-century romanticism
Some of the festivals it is part of a Victorian-style, others are to develop throughout the narratives, where the audience passes through it. For example, in the Dickensdorp in the Blade, where there is the excitement of occupying a new tram-line’, which is to be opened. And here is the Bergkwartier of information has been transformed into Dickenslandschap. “Queen Victoria, is carried into her carriage, and she and her ladies-in-waiting during the festival, a private residence,” says Te Riele.
“In the nineteenth century, there was a nostalgic yearning for the past”
Dickenskenner Josephine Leeuwenhoek < / p> Dickenskenner and is an expert in the field of the Victorian era, Josephine Leeuwenhoek to understand the popularity of the Dickensfestijnen well. “It changed a lot in the nineteenth century. We have got the railways, the telegraph, photography, and urbanism. All solid links have expired. That led to a nostalgic yearning for the past. Charles Dickens wrote a lot about it.”
in the Streets, you will Dickensfeesten one hundred and fifty years ago, in the course of time. (Photo: Pro-Shots).
Many of Dickens’ stories, play Christmas
According to Leeuwenhoek, our current time is compared to the Victorian era. “Well, now we are making a lot of changes and developments, with the rise of social media, and increasing globalisation. Than the increase in the need for the tales of mr. Dickens, which is about a sense of togetherness and care for each other.”
“It’s Dickensfestijn, a literary festival, not a market”
Furthermore, to Riele, managing director, Dickensfestijn Deventer
The Dickensevenementen to find, especially in the weeks around Christmas and the place. Many of Dickens’ tales take place in the winter, and the Christmas wonder. One of his most famous stories is A Christmas Carol, in which the greedy, embittered Ebenezer Scrooge to see that he is better for his neighbour’s, should be worried.
“Christmas is the message of the charity are of special relevance,” says Leeuwenhoek. But, according to the director, Te Riele have the Dickensfestijn is not to be confused with a christmas market, or to china light. “It’s at the core of a literary festival, in which the stories of Dickens is portrayed to be,” he said. “Christmas markets have been more focused on the things for sale, and snoeperij. Here you go by the literary world.”
On the Dickensfeesten a nice middle-ground between the christian and religious christmas and the commercial, the American celebration, with santa claus and the reindeer, thought Leeuwenhoek. “Dickens shows that even if you don’t have a lot, you have a very good time with each other, you can have it.”
The Dickensfestijn Deventer will take place on Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th of december, from 11: 00 to 17: 00 in the Bergkwartier. The entrance is free of charge. Furthermore, this was Dickensfeesten in Tech, excellent service, Drunen, the netherlands, Druten, Bennekom, the town of Veere, Atlanta, Valkenburg, Beerta, Blade, Freezing, and a bar.
