Harrie Geelen

Who is Harrie Geelen?

Harrie Geelen is Dutch illustrator, film director, animator, translator, writer and poet. Decorated to knight 2014

He studied Dutch in Amsterdam, where he met his wife Imme Dros, like himself a writer of Dutch children's literature. Geelen wrote several well known television programs, for children] and translated Disney films into Dutch. He illustrated his own books qand those of his wife Imme Dros some books by Annie M. G. Schmidt and a book of Toon Tellegen. He published a novel and short stories; He was the director and designer and scriptwriter of "Pinkeltje", and made some featurefilms and a large TV series with the use of simple computers. A lot of his children books are published by Querido. Some books are published in Japan, Sweden, and France,.The animated documentray about addiction "getekende mensen" won a golden Calf. Many documentaries made by him at Toonder Studio's won prizes in Ne Work and Paris,

1968 t/m 1972 - Oebele; [dialogue and songs]] His wife Imme Dros attributed short stories which Geelen visualised using drawings of children