Erwin Roebroeks is a Dutch writer, researcher and curator in the field of music and opera.

He studied business communication and comparative art science. Roebroeks was a critic for Neue Zeitschrift für Musik and wrote programme notes and essays for the Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Bayerische Staatsoper, among others. He has programmed various music festivals and was guest curator at La Biennale di Venezia. In 2021, he will publish Ik dwang (I Compulsion), about the compulsive disorder he struggled with as a young adult and from which he eventually recovered.

Photo: Keke Keukelaar

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Name
Erwin Roebroeks
Land
Netherlands
Stad
Amsterdam
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Healing from obsessive-compulsive disorder

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AMSTERDAM - From the age of twelve until the age of twenty-two, Erwin Roebroeks was in the grip of a compulsive disorder. He showered eight hours a day, drank soapsuds while wearing surgical gowns, and cut open his skin to be able to clean the inside. At first, the medical world wrote him off. Roebroeks will never get rid of his severe obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd).

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