{"id":104921,"date":"2019-10-24T16:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-10-24T14:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=104921"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:24:32","slug":"in-memoriam-cor-klaasse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2019\/10\/24\/in-memoriam-cor-klaasse\/","title":{"rendered":"In memoriam: Cor Klaasse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cor Klaasse, the former editor-in-chief of Quod Novum<\/em>, passed away on Saturday, 19 October, at the age of 73. Cor worked for Erasmus University from 1974 to 2008. For twenty years, Cor served as the editor, executive editor and editor-in-chief of Quod Novum, the predecessor of Erasmus Magazine<\/em>. In addition, he worked for over a decade for EUR\u2019s Department of Internal and External Relations, now known as the Marketing & Communication department.<\/p>\n

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A meetin of the Quod Novum editorial team in June 1984. Cor Klaasse is sitting in the middle of the couch.<\/span><\/p>

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\u201cThe colophon listed Cor as the editor-in-chief, but this job description doesn\u2019t do justice to everything he did\u201d, wrote journalist Marcel Haenen (editor at Quod Novum<\/em> from 1981 to 1984) in the Liber Amicorum presented to Cor when he left Erasmus University in 2008. \u201cCor didn\u2019t just write a mass of articles, he also watered the plants, hoovered the offices every six months, arranged the catering and actually delivered the weekly newspaper every week in an old French jalopy.\u201d Haenen called him the \u2018head of the editorial household\u2019, a true father figure for the student editors enjoying an interesting side job in journalism.<\/p>\n

Exhibition<\/h2>

As the editors of Erasmus Magazine<\/em>, we felt honoured these past few months that despite his illness, Cor was happy to think along about the \u2018Illustratum\u2019 exhibition. Many of the old satirical cartoons presented in this exhibition were actually published in Quod Novum<\/em> during his tenure. Cor remembered that when he headed Erasmus Magazine<\/em>\u2019s predecessor, there was no censorship whatsoever. Be it text or illustrations, nothing was considered unsuitable for publication. This perspective on journalism is encapsulated in Cor\u2019s wise words on the Erasmus Gallery wall: \u201cWe never decided not to publish an illustration because we felt it might be a bit much. We didn\u2019t take anything into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cor\u2019s words form the core of the \u2018Illustratum\u2019 exhibition, as well as an integral part of the soul of Quod Novum<\/em> \u2013 and as such of today\u2019s Erasmus Magazine<\/em>. \u201cThe statements made by Cor and other former editors-in-chief made me realise that we are all driven by the same spirit in our work\u201d, says EM<\/em>\u2019s editor-in-chief Wieneke Gunneweg. \u201cAs a university medium, it is our task to cast a critical eye on developments at EUR. But we shouldn\u2019t take everything seriously all the time \u2013 ourselves included.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, Cor was unable to attend the opening of the exhibition. But he enjoyed the photos of the opening, the special exhibition newspaper and prints of a number of satirical cartoons published when he stood at the helm of Quod Novum<\/em> \u2013 and we take this as a huge compliment.<\/p>\n

The editors of Erasmus Magazine<\/em> wish Cor\u2019s family and friends great strength in this difficult time.<\/p>\n

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An editorial team meeting of Quod Novum in 1979.<\/span><\/p>

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