{"id":1874,"date":"2025-05-08T14:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/?post_type=blog&p=1874"},"modified":"2025-05-08T14:24:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T12:24:45","slug":"jan-mulder","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/de\/blog\/jan-mulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Mulder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jan Mulder<\/h1>\n

Jan Mulder (b.1945) was a professional footballer with Ajax and Anderlecht. He has focused on journalism since 1975. He has written short stories and reportage, including for the publications de Volkskrant, Elsevier and Humo. In addition, he was a regular columnist for years at the newspaper de Volkskrant, forming the partnership Camu with the poet Remco Campert.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Arts\u2019 Hotel<\/h3>\n

\nA beautiful, old building, situated on a canal. A fine lobby, and then you walk inside stories. Here, anecdotes were born, famous gossip spread, quarrels and reconciliations written about.<\/p>\n

I take the lift to the first floor. A passage. My room is at the end of the passage. I don\u2019t make it down, although it should be physically possible: I can still walk all right, and the space between the walls is more than a metre wide, while I\u2019m only about sixty centimetres.<\/p>\n

Halfway down, my legs won\u2019t go on: my eyes catch behind a painting. Works by the artist Theo Wolvecamp are hung on both walls. I\u2019ve seen these for decades now, and not once have I walked past without feeling moved. A beautiful unknown woman who lures me to her room through a chink in the door, the tiredness that overwhelms me after hard work, an American couple asking the way to the Rijksmuseum: maybe I want to, but it all escapes me, I\u2019ve disappeared into painted wrapping paper.<\/p>\n

What many owners don\u2019t appreciate is the value of art in the attractiveness of their hotel. What you generally come across is what you see in the dentist\u2019s waiting room. Good paintings give a hotel allure, ahem, an identity. A fine subsidiary value of an arts\u2019 hotel is the writers who like to be interviewed there. They have taste and they feel at home in an arts\u2019hotel.<\/p>\n

The predicate writers\u2019 hotel appeals more to the imagination than arts\u2019 hotel does. For inexplicable reasons, my arts\u2019 hotel is also fonder of writers (sensitive types) than painters (rough hunks) with their salacious followers. Mostly, you get two for the price of one though. If there\u2019s good art on the walls, there\u2019ll be writers in the guestbook. We can read their signed books in the library annex-bar. The bartender could write a great book about the endlessly arriving and departing art folk, but he hasn\u2019t yet. To conclude, I\u2019ll add an anecdote about my hotel.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, while I was checking in, a young man was dragging two heavy suitcases out of the lift. I knew him from his political commentaries on the television programme The World Keeps Turning. \u2018Hey, Sywert.\u2019 To be able to earn a little extra on the side.<\/p>\n

View the column on\u00a0the website of \u2018Het Parool\u2019.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

What is a writers\u2019 hotel without writers? A pen without ink? For a period of six months in 2021, one author a week was invited to stay at the Ambassade Hotel and describe their writing lives at that time. Throughout the period May to November 2021, the newspaper Het Parool published the Writers\u2019 Hotel columns in its weekly Arts Section.<\/p>\n

Read more about\u00a0this column project\u00a0in collaboration with \u2018Het Parool\u2019.<\/p>\n

Would you like to stay at the writers\u2019 hotel as well? Enjoy a unique experience in the Ambassade Hotel\u00a0with these special offer packages\u00a0or come and admire the library after visiting our sunny\u00a0terrace on the Herengracht!<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"blog_category":[],"class_list":["post-1874","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/1874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=1874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}