Marieke Blaauw (born 1979, Hilversum) is a Dutch animator.
Life
Blaauw was born in 1979 in Hilversum. She studied at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. She graduated in 2002. In 2005 she worked as an animator on the stop motion children series Miffy at studio Pedri in Ankeveen. In 2007 she co-founded animation studio Job, Joris & Marieke together with Job Roggeveen and Joris Oprins. Job, Joris & Marieke works on commissioned work, music videos and short animated films.
In 2013 they released their animated short film MUTE. MUTE won, among others, the Grand Prix and the audience award at the Holland Animatie Film Festival in 2013.
In 2014 the City of Utrecht commissioned Job, Joris & Marieke to make the short film/music video Bon Voyage! This film was to promote the start of the Tour de France in Utrecht in 2015. The title song Bon Voyage! was composed by Dutch singer songwriter Blaudzun
In 2015 their short animation film A Single Life was nominated for the Academy Award for best animated short film. The film was also nominated for the Cartoon d’Or and has won 15 international prizes.
Marieke is a Belgian female name, a diminutive of Maria., which later got adopted by Holland. Especially the last part of the name "-ke" is a typical trait of Belgian language. The name of Marieke originated by adding "-ke" (pronounced as in "the") to the name of Marie, indicating "my sweet" or "darling" Marie. Marieke may refer to:
Mary is a femininegiven name, the English form of the name Maria, which was in turn a Latin form of the Greek names Μαριαμ, or Mariam, and Μαρια, or Maria, found in the New Testament. Both New Testament names were forms of the Hebrew name מִרְיָם or Miryam.
The usual meaning given by various sources for the name is the Hebrew מרר m-r-r meaning "bitterness" (cf. myrrh). Other meanings suggested include "rebelliousness" (מרי m-r-y), or "wished-for child" or "Our Lady" (ש"ע מריה Sha Mrih) or "beloved lady", referring to the Christian reverence for the Virgin Mary. The Web site Behind the Name notes that the name could also be a name of Egyptian origin, perhaps from the word elements mry, meaning "beloved" or mr, meaning "love". However, surviving Greek papyrus from ancient only attests the Christian usage of this name, as opposed to Jewish, only from the middle of the third century AD onwards.
The name was also considered in the Middle Ages to be connected to the sea and the word mare, as in the term Stella Maris, or "star of the sea," an appellation for the Virgin Mary.
Marieke is a 1961 song by the Belgian singer Jacques Brel.
The song
In Marieke Brel sings about a Flemish girl, Marieke, whom he once loved and lived "between the towers of Bruges and Gent". He wants her to love him again in the "flat country of Flanders" (a reference to another song by him, "Le Plat Pays").
It's also the only song where he sings both in his native French language and in Dutch, the other major language of his bilingual home country Belgium. Brel recorded a version of the song entirely in Dutch, as well, with lyrics by Eric Franssen.
[Chorus] Speedy Speed Boy - gasoline's burnin' in Speedy Speed Boy - as fast as I can be Speedy Speed Boy - every night and day Wind is on my face (Speedy Speed Boy) (Speedy Speed Boy) Running with my car Running in my dreams every night...Night Born to overtake Born to race and to overdrive...Drive Engine's over the red degrees And my Heart beats as much as I can breathe But I Don't want claim any stop They wanna say I'm quitting...(Quitting) [Chorus] x 2 Squealing off the tyres skidding to the left and the right...Right My step on the brakes, rear vision , mirror to spy...Spy Engine's over the red degrees And my Heart beats as much as I can breathe But I Don't want claim any stop They wanna say I'm quitting...(Quitting) [Chorus] x 2 (Speedy Speed Boy woa oh woa oh) (Speed Boy Speed Boy woa oh woa oh) (Speedy Speed Boy woa oh woa oh) (Speed Boy Speed Boy woa oh woa oh) (Night...night) (Drive...drive) (Stop...Quitting) (Boy...Boy...Boy...Boy...Boy...Boy) Speedy Speed Boy... (Boy...Boy...Boy...Boy...Boy...Boy) Running with my car Running in my dreams every night...Night Born to overtake Born to race and to overdrive...Drive Engine's over the red degrees And my Heart beats as much as I can breathe But I Don't want claim any stop They wanna say I'm quitting...(Quitting)
