Tag: Maarten
Maarten van Rossem: ‘Did you know that Utrecht has not one but three cathedrals?’
What is a cathedral? A cathedral is a church where a Catholic bishop resides. And that is literally because in every cathedral there is a richly decorated seat or an…
Maarten wins National Bird Imitating Championship with a ‘toktok’ from the chicken
Who can chirp the best? And what does a great spotted woodpecker sound like? The very first NK Bird Sound Imitating was held today in the Griftpark in Utrecht. It…
Van Rossem Narrates: Thinking of Marsman, Maarten sees wide rivers
Zeist – Perhaps the name Hendrik Marsman no longer means much to us, but there is a good chance that most of us know the first words of his most…
Maarten Van Rossem and Rutger Bregman philosophize about the next 80 years
Doomsday scenarios of 11 billion people on our earth do not seem to come true. Scientists show that the world population is shrinking sooner and faster than expected. We now…
Sint Maarten Parade illuminates streets and waters in Utrecht: ‘It’s about sharing and solidarity’
When you think of Sint Maarten, you quickly think of children going door-to-door to collect sweets. But the party is more than that, emphasizes Moniek Janssen from the organization. “It…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about Utrecht Politics and Pim Fortuyn
The party’s popularity also declined sharply locally. In the 2006 elections, the party plummeted from 14 to 3 seats. “The cake was gone,” Broos Schnetz explains, “we have had our…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about the ‘bankrupt’ city
Utrecht – Don’t panic! The city of Utrecht has never really been bankrupt. Not that we weren’t in a bad position, but cities in the Netherlands simply cannot go bankrupt.…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about childcare and emancipation
The only question that arises is how emancipated the household used to be for Maarten and his wife… “I always like to tell you that, because I became emancipated through…
Maarten 80! Van Rossem talks about the rise of prosperity and luxury products
Amerongen – Born in 1943, Maarten grew up in lean times. Thinking back to that time, he calculates that life looked quite poor until at least the late 1950s: “wages…
Maarten 80 years old! Van Rossem talks about the housing shortage
To tackle the housing shortage, rapid and extensive construction had to be carried out from the end of the 1950s onwards. One of the major expansion neighborhoods in our region…