Tommy Wieringa and Jaap Scholten

Name: Tommy Wieringa and Jaap Scholten
Start: 2027-02-22
Location: Parktheater Eindhoven

Mon, 22 Feb 2027

Parktheater Eindhoven, Eindhoven

lecture culture

Writer Tommy Wieringa and composer Jaap Scholten perform together at Parktheater Eindhoven.

About: Tommy Wieringa

Wieringa started out as a travel writer before winning a mass readership with Joe Speedboot, now a Dutch classic with over 300,000 copies sold. Across novels, essays and columns, his work keeps returning to questions of freedom, identity and how people make sense of their place in the world.

300000+

sold copies of Joe Speedboot

100000+

readers of Joe Speedboot in a short time after publication

What's new

2026-08
On 16 August 2026, Wieringa was a guest on the final season of VPRO Zomergasten, interviewed by Janine Abbring.
2026-03
The film adaptation of Joe Speedboot premiered on 9 March 2026 at the Koninklijk Theater Tuschinski in Amsterdam and was released nationwide on 12 March.
2025-04
Wieringa wrote the essay Optimisme zonder hoop for the Month of Philosophy 2025, about climate crisis and how to act without expectation of improvement.

Tracks

Joe SpeedbootBreakthrough novel from 2005, more than 300,000 copies sold, F. Bordewijkprijs 2006, adapted into a film in 2026

Dit zijn de namenNovel from 2012, winner of the Libris Literatuurprijs 2013 and Gouden Boekenuil

De heilige RitaNovel from 2017, winner of the Bookspot Literatuurprijs 2018

NirwanaMost recent novel (2023), family epic about power, idealism and the climate crisis

Optimisme zonder hoopEssay for the Month of Philosophy 2025, weeks on the bestseller lists

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