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Dutch television director and producer (1940–2023) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ellen Jens (6 October 1940 – 17 November 2023) was a Dutch television director and producer, best known for her collaboration with Wim T. Schippers on VPRO television. She produced and directed a large number of other television shows, especially on literature and art, and was referred to as a "television legend".
Ellen Jens was born in Wassenaar on 6 October 1940.[1] In the early 1970s Jens was a "scriptgirl" working for the VPRO.[2] Starting in 1972 she began working with Wim T. Schippers, producing his shows from 1972 (De Fred Hachéshow) to 1994 (We zijn weer thuis);[3] on many of the shows she is credited as a director and writer as well.[4]
Jens produced and directed Hier is Adriaan van Dis, the talk show hosted by Adriaan van Dis (which ran from 1983 to 1992),[5][6] and was the producer of the long-running VPRO TV show Jiskefet[6][7] and the Schippers series on popular science Flogiston.[8] For presenter Hanneke Groenteman, she produced the talk show on art De Plantage,[9] from 1994 to 2001.[10] From 2005 onwards she produced the TV show VPRO Boeken,[11] a program on literature hosted by Wim Brands, for which she also designed the set (modeled on the set for De Plantage, taped in the Studio Plantage in Artis,[6] in turn modeled on her own house); she was picked (as a "television legend") for her experience with literature, based in part on her work with Adriaan van Dis.[12]
In the early 1970s she dated Hugo Claus, at the time when he promoted his novel Het jaar van de kreeft; Claus and Jens were photographed together as part of a campaign to promote the book, which had Claus's love life as its main topic.[2] She lived with Wim T. Schippers in the 1970s and 1980s[5][13] and later married him.[12]
Jens died in Amsterdam on 17 November 2023, at the age of 83.[1]
Entries marked with an asterisk are with Wim T. Schippers
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