Michel de Ghelderode

Michel de Ghelderode is the name taken by Adhémar Martens, who was born in Ixelles on 3 April 1898. Employed in the archives of the commune of Schaerbeek from 1923 to 1945, he wrote in French more than sixty plays, about a hundred stories and more than twenty thousand letters. From 1925 to 1930, his plays were performed in Dutch by the Vlaamsch Volkstooneel. Long ignored in Paris, he caused a scandal there in 1949, and his plays were from then on often staged there. He died in Brussels on 1 April 1962.

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• TheatreLa Balade du Grand MacabreMichel de Ghelderode · 1934not translated into EnglishLiterature