{"id":1843,"date":"2025-05-08T11:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/?post_type=blog&p=1843"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:47:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:47:25","slug":"stine-jensen","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/blog\/stine-jensen\/","title":{"rendered":"Stine Jensen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Stine Jensen<\/h1>\n

Stine Jensen (b.1972) is a philosopher, writer and programme maker. She writes philosophical children\u2019s books about such issues as feelings, child rearing, saying goodbye, identity and happiness. She also writes books for adults, such as the recently published Daring to Fail and Other Philosophical Contemplations. Her children\u2019s book Dear Stine, Do You Know? won a Silver Pencil award in 2015.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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What a Plunge<\/h3>\n

\nWhat a feast! What a plunge! For the first time in ages, I go to a theatre performance. I\u2019ve been looking forward to it, yearning for it even, because my favourite book, The Hours by Michael Cunningham, is being staged in Dutch. The book interweaves the lives of three women: Virginia Woolf at the end of the 1920s in London, Laura Brown in 1949 in Los Angeles, who reads Virginia Woolf \u2019s Mrs Dalloway in bed, and the New York publisher Clarissa Vaughan at the end of the twentieth century, who is organising a party for her boyfriend, Richard. He calls Clarissa \u2018Mrs Dalloway\u2019 because she has the same Christian name as Woolf \u2019s Mrs Dalloway. The Hours is a complex, post-modern novel, full of allusions. I find it such a wonderful book because it shows how three women, all born in another time, wrestle with the same questions. Have I made the right choices in life? What is important in life? As a woman, can you derive pleasure from \u2018banal\u2019 things like baking cakes and buying flowers, or do you want to do other things such as write books, or poems?<\/p>\n

The Hours on stage is a challenging undertaking for another reason. After all, there is a superb film version of the book that a lot of people have already seen. The three lead actors, Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep and Julianne Moore were jointly awarded the Silver Bear in Berlin for the best female actor. How can you break free from that famous film?<\/p>\n

But something magical happens in this stage performance, directed by Eline Arbo. From the first minute, she grabs all your senses. The actors are stood on a revolving platform; it\u2019s a daring exploit in itself, standing on a revolving platform for two hours. At a few spectacular moments, the women walk nervously, irritated or even bristling with energy through the city, and the speed at which the platform revolves increases. What a feast, what a plunge\u2026!<\/p>\n

The Hours on stage is phenomenal, wonderful, unique. But I\u2019m not yet entirely convinced because I wonder whether my favourite quote has been included? Yes, luckily: \u2018There\u2019s just this for consolation: an hour here or there when our lives seem, against all odds and expectations, to burst open and give us everything we\u2019ve ever imagined, though everyone but children (and perhaps even they) knows these hours will inevitably be followed by others, far darker and more difficult. Still, we cherish the city, the morning; we hope, more than anything, for more.\u2019<\/p>\n

I once met the writer, as it happens. Michael Cunningham was staying at the Ambassade Hotel \u2014 where else? He had many female fans, and told me that he longed for the gaze of men. He went into the city. He was ready for a plunge.<\/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\u00a0Brasserie Ambassade.<\/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-1843","blog","type-blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/blog"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"blog_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ambassade-hotel-nl.ont.stuurlui.dev\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/blog_category?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}