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Ellen Jens (6 October 1940 – 17 November 2023) was a Dutch television director and producer, best known for her collaboration with Wim T. Schippers on VPRO television. She produced and directed a large number of other television shows, especially on literature and art, and was referred to as a "television legend".
Jens produced and directed Hier is Adriaan van Dis, the talk show hosted by Adriaan van Dis (which ran from 1983 to 1992), and was the producer of the long-running VPRO TV show Jiskefet and the Schippers series on popular science Flogiston. For presenter Hanneke Groenteman, she produced the talk show on art De Plantage, from 1994 to 2001. From 2005 onwards she produced the TV show VPRO Boeken, a program on literature hosted by Wim Brands, for which she also designed the set (modeled on the set for De Plantage, taped in the Studio Plantage in Artis, in turn modeled on her own house); she was picked (as a "television legend") for her experience with literature, based in part on her work with Adriaan van Dis.
Jens died in Amsterdam on 17 November 2023, at the age of 83.
Personal life
In the early 1970s she dated Hugo Claus, at the time when he promoted his novel Het jaar van de kreeft; Claus and Jens were photographed together as part of a campaign to promote the book, which had Claus's love life as its main topic. She lived with Wim T. Schippers in the 1970s and 1980s (2026). 9789057970771, Sdu. ISBN 9789057970771 and later married him.
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Entries marked with an asterisk are with Wim T. Schippers
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Categories: 1940 Births, 2023 Deaths, Dutch Television Directors, Dutch Television Producers, Dutch Television Show Creators, Dutch Satirists, Dutch Women Satirists, Dutch Satirical Television Show Creators, Women Television Directors, Dutch Women Television Producers, 20th-century Dutch Women, People From Wassenaar
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