En niemand bleef onaangeraakt

“Randy Vermeulen and Maurits de Bruijn made a heartbreakingly beautiful podcast about the history of AIDS in the Netherlands,” De Standaard wrote this summer. “It not only highlights the tragedy of the AIDS crisis but also tells the story of ordinary people who loved and rose above themselves.”

And that was also what the creators of En niemand bleef onaangeraakt set out to do: take a personal look at what happened in the 1990s. “Most of the stories we know about the AIDS crisis are American,” they explain. “The Dutch perspective has never been canonized. If it was told at all, it was mostly a positive story about how progressive our policies were. And while that is true, we wanted to find out what it was like for the people affected by the disease and what the effect was on Amsterdam and the queer scene here.”

Randy Vermeulen, who earned his stripes as producer of AudioCollectief Schik (Bob, El tarangu), and Maurits de Bruijn, author of such books as Ook mijn Holocaust and Man maakt stuk, talk at the festival to Flemish podcast creator Amalia De Roover, who herself collaborated on En niemand bleef onaangeraakt. Jan Nieuwenhuis, the protagonist of the series, will also join.

This talk is in Dutch. With the support of the Dutch Embassy.