Van de Schoonheid en de Troost (2000) is a documentary web series in English. On MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch Van de Schoonheid en de Troost online in HD.
Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Storyline
To his guests – artists, scientists, writers, philosophers and musicians – Wim Kayzer in Of Beauty and Consolation asks the philosophical question: What makes this life worth living?
Cast & Crew
- Created by: Wim Kayzer
- Starring: Wim Kayzer
Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Series Details
| First Air Date | 2000-01-02 |
| Seasons | 1 |
| Episodes | 27 |
| Genre | Documentary |
| Language | English |
| Status | Ended |
Van de Schoonheid en de Troost — Episode Guide
Season 1
- E1: Fathers Roses: Wole Soyinka (2000-01-02) — The African Nobel Prize winner for literature 1986 reflects on beauty and consolation during the civil war and his imprisonment during the military coup in Nigeria (1966) in which
- E2: Homecoming: Roger Scruton (2000-01-09) — Reactionary, contrary, controversial: all labels that have been stuck on the British philosopher Roger Scruton over the years. Once a modernist philosopher, Scruton is now averse t
- E3: Alone on the mountain: Jane Goodall (2000-01-16) — Interview with Jane Goodall, British writer and ethologist (in a studio). Goodall left for Africa at the age of 23 and has since been studying a group of wild chimpanzees in Gombe
- E4: The Code of Pasternak: George Steiner (2000-01-23) — Interview with George Steiner, British literary critic and writer (in his home in Cambridge, Great Britain). Steiner talks about beauty, solace, fear, wonder, memory, his photograp
- E5: The End of the Thirteenth: Vladimir Ashkenazy (2000-01-30) — Interview with Vladimir Ashkenazy, Russian pianist and conductor (in the large rehearsal hall of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester in the building of the Sender Freies Berlin on Ma
- E6: Thor, Newton, Einstein: Steven Weinberg (2000-02-06) — Interview with Steven Weinberg, American theoretical physicist (in his office at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas). Weinberg talks about the demythologization of the world
- E7: Guilt: Martha Nussbaum (2000-02-13) — Interview with Martha Nussbaum (in her Chicago apartment, located on Lake Michigan, near Harold Washington Park). Nussbaum talks about what philosophy means to her, the book she is
- E8: You Are There and You Are Not: Karel Appel (2000-02-20) — Interview with Karel Appel, Dutch painter. Appel has specially selected eight of his paintings for the interview as symbols of beauty and comfort. Appel talks about these eight pai
- E9: The Greatest Mystery Is Not the Universe: Edward Witten (2000-02-27) — Interview with Edward Witten, American theoretical physicist (in a room at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey). Witten talks about solving physics riddles, d
- E10: Dear Mother: Elizabeth Loftus (2000-03-05) — Interview with Elizabeth Loftus, American psychologist (in her home in Seattle, overlooking Union Bay, a bay in Lake Washington). The interview is preceded by the story of a couple
- E11: When My Father Was Still Big: Rutger Kopland (2000-03-12) — Interview with Rutger Kopland, Dutch poet (pseudonym of Rudy van den Hoofdakker, psychiatrist) (in his garden house/study in Glimmen, located on the Assen – Groningen railway line)
- E12: What's Mary Doing in the Cave: Gary Lynch (2000-03-19) — Interview with Gary Lynch (in a converted workspace trailer next to the buildings of the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the University of California, Irvine,
- E13: John the Myth: Stephen Jay Gould (2000-03-26) — Interview with Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and evolutionary biologist (in his office at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, part of the Harvard Museum of Natural Hist
- E14: The Poetics of the Album: Dubravka Ugrešić (2000-04-02) — Interview with Dubravka Ugresic, Croatian writer. Using photos and excerpts from her books, Ugresic talks about the role of photos and photo albums in her life (it's about personal
- E15: Ugly Ears: Simon Schama (2000-04-09) — Interview with Simon Schama, British historian (in a room at The Ritz hotel on Piccadilly in London, overlooking Green Park). Schama talks about the beauty of history that he recog
- E16: True Love Gives Trust: Catherine Bott (2000-04-16) — Interview with Catherine Bott, British soprano and interpreter of medieval songs and operas (in the Main Hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam). Bott talks about the acoustics of
- E17: Innocence?: John M. Coetzee (2000-04-23) — Interview with John Coetzee, South African writer (in a hotel room in downtown Cape Town and on Diaz Beach, South Africa). Coetzee talks about the complexity and meaning of beauty,
- E18: The Unanswered Question: Richard Dufallo (2000-04-30) — Richard Dufallo, American conductor, gave a concert entitled 'The concert of beauty and consolation' for 'Of beauty and consolation' on February 6, 2000 in Muziekcentrum Vredenburg
- E19: After the Death of Sophia Loren?: Leon Lederman (2000-05-07) — Interview with Leon Lederman, American experimental physicist (in the main building of the Fermi Laboratory near Batavia, Chicago area). Lederman talks about his passion for his wo
- E20: Greetings from Medemblik: Rudi Fuchs (2000-05-14) — Interview with Rudi Fuchs, art historian (in the study of his home). Fuchs shows various postcards that he has collected over the years and talks about the beauty and comfort of po
- E21: Don't Look Back: Tatjana Tolstaja (2000-05-21) — Interview with Tatjana Tolstaja, Russian writer and granddaughter of Leo Tolstoy. Tolstaja talks about her deceased father, who was a physicist and with whom she still keeps in tou
- E22: Freeman Dyson (2000-05-28) — Interview with Freeman Dyson, British/American theoretical physicist (in the living room of his home in Princeton, New Jersey). Dyson talks about gamma-ray bursts, the secrets of t
- E23: Other States of Consciousness: Richard Rorty (2000-06-04) — Interview with Richard Rorty, American philosopher (in a studio and in nature). Rorty talks about his childhood memories, escaping the "outside world" by reading books, his educati
- E24: Scoundrel: Györgi Konrád (2000-06-11) — Interview with György Konrád, Hungarian writer (standing in a room of a canal house on the Zeedijk and looking out over the Oudezijds Voorburgwal in Amsterdam). Konrád talks about
- E25: Three Times Australia: Germaine Greer (2000-06-18) — Germaine Greer, Australian writer, captures her native Australia with a camera for 'Of Beauty and Comfort', for her the only answer to the question of what beauty and comfort mean.
- E26: The Ninth: Yehudi Menuhin (2000-06-25) — Interview with Yehudi Menuhin (at his home in Chester Square, London, and at a concert hall). Menuhin talks about the moment that represents the now and moves with us through time,
- E27: The Gathering (2000-07-09) — This episode consists of the gathering. Twenty of the portrayed guests come together for an evening-filling exchange of thoughts in the De Zaaijer gallery on the Keizersgracht in A
Frequently Asked Questions
How many seasons does Van de Schoonheid en de Troost have? 1 season(s) with 27 episodes.
Who created Van de Schoonheid en de Troost? Wim Kayzer.
Where can I watch Van de Schoonheid en de Troost? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.
