Type interview: scientific
The collection has not yet been digitized and therefore cannot be viewed directly at Beeld & Geluid. Digitization can, however, be requested from Beeld & Geluid via: zakelijk@beeldengeluid.nl
In DAAN, the digital archive of Beeld & Geluid the following items can be found: Dr. Willem Drees Sr. 01-01-1973, a movie where Drees speaks about democratic socialism; Thuis bij Dr. W. Drees 06-07-1961 VARA, an interview in Drees’ home about dutch Politics; Dr. Willem Drees (search terms: Willem Drees AND “Oral History”) 1973, a six-part movie about Drees commissioned by the Dutch state that contains interviews with Drees
Title: Biografie Drees 5 delen in cassette; 5 delen Willem Drees 1886-1988
Authors: Hans Daalder en Jelle Gaemers
Publisher: Balans, Amsterdam, 2014
ISBN: 9789460037276
H. Daalder, R.P. van den Helm and R.L. Schuursma interviewed Willem Drees about socialism and Dutch politics. The ten interviews yielded a total of 19.5 hours of material. This is a wealth of information for research on former Prime Minister Drees.
Professor of political science Daalder (1928-2016) researched Drees for almost his entire life. Together with Jelle Gaemers, he wrote five books about the popular politician. The final volume, Prime Minister and elder statesman, was published in 2014. In it there are wonderful examples of Drees’ modesty: he usually walked to work, simply stood in line for the cinema and preferred to eat at home with his wife To at lunchtime. See one of Daalder’s articles on Drees: “Het socialisme van Willem Drees”
For more information on the interviews and the interviewed, see: SFW-werkuitgave no. 8 (1995), pp. 11 t/m 13.