Trivia

Cara Van Wersch was a stage actress, film actress and teacher of Russian, yoga and tai chi.

In 1961 she was an interpreter for Flemish television (BRT) during Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight.

Van Wersch, daughter of the owner of a painting company in Heerlen (Netherlands) was rejected by a Dutch theater company because she had a soft "g". She then left for Antwerp, where she would make a career.

Even before the Second World War she was associated with the Royal Dutch Theater of Antwerp.

Cara van Wersch started an exchange of letters with the Belgian writer Johan Daisne in 1952. The friendship is close and growing steadily. She sends him flowers for his birthday; he responds with the poem 'Birthday bouquet'. It remains a paper friendship for a long time, but eventually it comes to a meeting. In mid-February 1956, she sent him a letter with a story she had written about their meeting. Based on this, Daisne wrote "De Lievevrouw" and "De Lichtmis" in two evenings, which were published in 1965 in his collection Charaban.