Theo Kars (Rotterdam, March 22, 1940 - Amsterdam, November 10, 2015) was a Dutch writer and translator.
Theo Kars grew up in Doorn in a Reformed family but later rebelled against his parents and all forms of religion. He witnessed a non-conformist and hedonistic attitude to life. He was a notorious casanova and spent some time of his life with two women at the same time. He also translated Casanova's memoirs.
Together with writer Boudewijn van Houten, he raised the PTT for a considerable sum of money. He was sentenced to 27 months in jail, 24 of whom he was serving. He relates his experiences in this regard in his books De Vervalsers and De Hypotheses.
In 1996, Kars published the book The Struggle against Time, in which he reports on his experiences of combating old age symptoms. During and after the illness of his girlfriend at the time (schizophrenia), he studied extensively the subject of nutritional supplements and life-prolonging therapies and began to live by those insights. In the book, he discusses the vitamin and mineral supplementation, cell and procaine therapies and plastic and dental surgery that he underwent and that he combined with a spirited and delightful attitude, whereby he did not, for example, quench smoking and drinking coffee. In this book he also confesses to be the author of the Prisma Vitamins and Minerals Guide, which was published by Het Spectrum under the pseudonym Hannah Kohn.
Countercurrent
In 1964 he founded the literary magazine Tegenstroom with the stolen money from the PTT.
