The complete transcription from the interviews 1962-1982 can be found on DBNL
Ten huize van … is a Flemish talk show that first appeared on TV1 (Eén) in 1957.
Each episode, presenter Joos Florquin visited a Famous Fleming or Famous Dutchman and interviewed him in his own home. For three days he installed himself in the home of the person in question, while his camera crew shot footage. Most of the interviewees were from the political or cultural world. The first guest was Gerard Walschap. More than 250 followed. The interviews centered on the interviewees. They were able to talk freely and were only in the picture themselves. In other words, true oral history.
Over the decades, Florquin interviewed an impressive number of people. The interviews were written down afterwards, compiled and published in a series of books. When Florquin died in 1978, the program was also stopped for a long time.
Only in the 1990s did new episodes appear around “At the home of”, this time with Edward De Maesschalck as interviewer (34 episodes). From 2003 Frieda Van Wijck took over the presentation.
An overview of many of the interviewed:
Naam | Uitzending | Boekdeel |
Aafjes Bertus | 1969 | 7 |
Alfrink Bernardus J. | 1971 | 9 |
Aubroeck Karel | 1958 | 2 |
Avermaete Roger | 1962 | |
Baekelmans Lode † | 1963 | 3 |
Baie Eugène † | 1961 | 10 |
Baksteen Dirk † | 1963 | 3 |
Baksteen Gerard † | 1963 | 3 |
Baur Frank † | 1960 | 16 |
Boon Constant | 1977 | 17 |
Boon Louis-Paul (2) † | 1971 | 8 |
Bosmans Phil | 1978 | 15 |
Bovy Vina | 1977 | 18 |
Brachin Pierre | 1967 | 8 |
Broekx P. † | 1965 | 16 |
Brugmans Henk | 1962 | 18 |
Brulez Raymond † | 1959 | 1 |
Burssens Amaat | 1962 | |
Cardijn Jozef † | 1962 | 3 |
Carmiggelt Simon (2) | 1972 | 9 |
Caspeele Hendrik | 1973 | |
Claes Ernest † | 1958 | 1 |
Collaer Paul | 1961 | |
Collin Fernand | 1964 | 3 |
Contrijn Jef | 1974 | |
Cool August | 1968 | 7 |
Coppé Albert (2) | 1973 | 10 |
Cornelis Hendrik | 1971 | |
Cox Jan † | 1976 | 17 |
Craeybeckx Lode † | 1966 | 4 |
Daan Lea | 1969 | |
Daisne Johan † | 1972 | 10 |
Darciel Elsa | 1975 | |
De Bock Eugène † | 1962 | 16 |
De Boeck Felix | 1958 | |
De Boeck Felix | 1967 | 1 |
De Clerck Oscar † | 1960 | |
Declerck Richard | 1977 | 17 |
De Coen Jeanne † | 1961 | |
De Cuyper Floris † | 1959 | |
De Hartog Jan | 1965 | 4 |
De Jong Marinus | 1959 | 18 |
De Keyser Paul † | 1961 | |
De Leebeeck Maria | 1977 | |
Delwaide Leo † | 1969 | 8 |
De Man Yvonne † | 1965 | 4 |
De Mayer Aloïs † | 1963 | |
Demedts André | 1968 | 6 |
De Meester Johan | 1965 | |
De Meester Louis | 1969 | 16 |
De Meyer Willem | 1964 | 14 |
De Muynck Gust | 1965 | 4 |
Den Doolaard A. (2) | 1971 | 9 |
Denys Willem (2) | 1978 | 15 |
De Pillecyn Filip † | 1959 | 1 |
De Raeymaeker Louis † | 1966 | 17 |
De Ridder André † | 1961 | 1 |
De Schryver August | 1968 | 7 |
De Smedt Emiel J. | 1977 | 15 |
De Smet Léon † | 1961 | 2 |
De Spot Jan † | 1977 | 16 |
De Sutter Ignace | 1977 | 14 |
De Sutter Jules † | 1967 | 15 |
De Troyer Prosper † | 1958 | 1 |
De Vocht Lodewijk † | 1958 | 13 |
De Vree Paul | 1972 | 13 |
De Waele Fernand J.M. † | 1966 | |
De Wit Gaspar † | 1961 | |
Diels Herman | 1968 | |
Diels Joris | 1968 | 6 |
Dille Denijs (2) | 1975 | 13 |
Dumon André † | 1963 | |
Elaut Leon † | 1965 | 4 |
Elsing Johan-Mark | 1977 | 15 |
Elström Harry | 1960 | |
Eyskens Gaston (2) | 1974 | 11 |
Fayat Hendrik | 1976 | 15 |
Gerlo Aloïs | 1973 | 13 |
Gevers Marie † | 1963 | 17 |
Geyl Pieter † | 1961 | 2 |
Gheyselinck Roger † | 1970 | |
Gijsen Marnix | 1959 | 1 |
Gijsen Marnix | 1974 | 12 |
Gilliams Maurice | 1968 | 5 |
Goris René | 1975 | 12 |
Grammens Flor | 1972 | 9 |
Gronon Rose † | 1969 | 6 |
Gunzburg Nico | 1967 | 9 |
Haanstra Bert | 1976 | 13 |
Haasse Hella (2) | 1975 | 12 |
Haesaerts Paul † | 1966 | 17 |
Hagedoorn Georgette (2) | 1975 | 13 |
Helman Albert | 1976 | 14 |
Herberigs Robert † | 1960 | |
Herckenrath Antoon † | 1974 | 12 |
Herreman Raymond † | 1960 | 2 |
Heymans Corneel † | 1963 | 3 |
Hoste Marcel A.J. † | 1974 | 18 |
Hullebroeck Emiel † | 1958 | 1 |
Indestege Luc † | 1965 | 5 |
Jacquemyns Pol † | 1967 | 16 |
Janssens Magda † | 1971 | 10 |
Jespers Floris † | 1959 | 5 |
Jespers Oscar † | 1958 | 5 |
Jonckheere Karel | 1968 | 5 |
Kimpe Reimond † | 1964 | 3 |
Knuvelder Gerard | 1974 | 14 |
Kuypers Julien † | 1962 | 5 |
Lamberty Max † | 1960 | 5 |
Lampo Hubert (2) | 1973 | 10 |
Langui Emile † | 1969 | 6 |
Lauwereys Modest † | 1962 | |
Leemans Victor † | 1967 | 7 |
Leys Fanny | 1960 | 5 |
Liebaers Herman | 1973 | |
Luns J.M.A.H. | 1968 | 6 |
Maes Jef | 1975 | 18 |
Magits Leo | 1966 | 8 |
Malfait Hubert † | 1968 | 16 |
Manteau Angèle | 1967 | 5 |
Marceau Félicien | 1976 | |
Major Louis | 1967 | 7 |
Martens Adriaan † | 1963 | 3 |
Martens Gaston † | 1958 | 2 |
Masereel Frans † | 1961 | 1 |
Minnaert Marcel † | 1970 | 7 |
Minne Joris | 1958 | |
Minne Joris | 1967 | 1 |
Minne Richard † | 1962 | 1 |
Moens Wies | 1975 | 12 |
Mussche Achiel † | 1961 | 2 |
Naessens Maurits | 1961 | 6 |
Nees Staf † | 1959 | 2 |
Opsomer Isidoor † | 1957 | |
Paerels Willem † | 1959 | |
Peeters Flor | 1958 | 1 |
Peeters Karel C. † | 1970 | 11 |
Pelemans Willem | 1962 | 18 |
Philips Luc | 1971 | 9 |
Picard Leo † | 1963 | 17 |
Pieck Anton | 1973 | 11 |
Poels Albert | 1959 | 1 |
Pols André M. † | 1964 | |
Poot Marcel | 1972 | 17 |
Preud’homme Arm. | 1970 | 8 |
Renard Raf | 1977 | |
Rens Jef | 1969 | 6 |
Roelants Maurice † | 1959 | 2 |
Romein-Verschoor Annie † | 1974 | 11 |
Ruyslinck Ward (2) | 1975 | 12 |
Ryelandt Joseph † | 1959 | 10 |
Sabbe Etienne † | 1968 | |
Saverys Albert † | 1958 | 1 |
Schillebeeckx Edward (2) | 1976 | 13 |
Schmidt Annie M.G. (2) | 1974 | 11 |
Schmook Ger | 1963 | 18 |
Segers Paul W. | 1966 | 17 |
Servaes Albert † | 1966 | 3 |
Servranckx Victor † | 1961 | 5 |
Seuphor Michel | 1965 | 4 |
Slabbinck Rik | 1971 | 10 |
Stynen Léon | 1972 | 18 |
Stracke E.P. Desiderius † | 1966 | 4 |
Struye Paul † | 1971 | 8 |
Stuiveling Garmt (2) | 1970 | 8 |
Suenens Leo | 1970 | 8 |
Termote Albert † | 1970 | |
Terruwe Anna A.A. | 1972 | 10 |
Thiel Urbain † | 1967 | |
Thuysbaert Prosper † | 1962 | |
Tinbergen Jan | 1976 | 13 |
Torfs Jos | 1978 | |
Vaerten Jan † | 1974 | 12 |
Van Acker Achiel † | 1964 | 3 |
Van Aken Piet (2) | 1978 | 15 |
Vanaudenhove Omer | 1977 | 14 |
Vanbeselaere Walth. | 1970 | 18 |
Van Cauwelaert Emiel | 1976 | 17 |
Van Cauwelaert Frans † | 1960 | 2 |
Vandekerckhove Michiel | 1973 | 18 |
Van den Abeele Hugo † | 1967 | |
Vandendriessche Ern. | 1969 | |
Vandeputte Robert | 1971 | 16 |
Van der Essen Leo † | 1960 | |
(Van der Goes Hugo) | 1968 | |
Vanderlick Armand | 1969 | 7 |
Van der Meer Frits | 1973 | 11 |
Van der Meer de Walcheren Pieter † | 1966 | 4 |
Vandermeulen Lambertus † | 1974 | 12 |
Van der Mueren Floris † | 1960 | |
Van der Plaetse Antoon † | 1968 | |
Vanderpoorten Herman | 1978 | 15 |
Vandersteen Willy | 1976 | 13 |
Van de Velde Anton | 1964 | |
Van de Voorde Urbain † | 1964 | 7 |
Van Duinkerken Anton † | 1960 | 1 |
Van Eynde Jos | 1975 | 14 |
Van Hemeldonck Em. † | 1958 | 1 |
Van Hool Bernard † | 1970 | |
Van Hulse Camil | 1967 | |
Van Isacker Karel | 1977 | 14 |
Van Istendael August | 1975 | 16 |
Van Oorschot Geert (2) | 1977 | |
Van Overstraeten Jozef | 1966 | 5 |
Van Overstraeten War | 1960 | 10 |
Van Oye Paul † | 1965 | |
Van Reeth Flor † | 1959 | 14 |
Vansina Dirk † | 1965 | 4 |
Van Straaten Werenfried | 1972 | 12 |
Van Vlaenderen Michel † | 1964 | 3 |
Van Waeyenbergh Honoré † | 1961 | 2 |
Van Werveke Hans † | 1969 | 6 |
Van Wilderode Anton | 1976 | 14 |
Vercammen Jan | 1973 | 11 |
Veremans Renaat † | 1959 | 2 |
(Verlooy Jan Baptist) | 1973 | |
Victor René | 1964 | 17 |
Vinck Joseph † | 1970 | 18 |
Vranckx Alfons † | 1973 | 16 |
Walschap Gerard | 1957 | 1 |
Wasserman Ida † | 1968 | 6 |
Westerlinck Albert | – | 15 |
Wijnants Ernest † | 1960 | |
Wildiers Max | 1969 | 7 |
Yoors Eugène † | 1959 | 1 |
Other seasons can be found in the VRT archives
Title: Belpop: de eerste vijftig jaar
Author: Jan Delvaux
Publisher: Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, Ghent, 2011
ISBN: 9789089312495
Belpop is a TV program about the Belgian pop scene on Canvas. It refers to belpop, a collective term for music by Belgian groups. Since 2008, each episode deals with one artist, sometimes several artists get the floor. They talk about the past of belpop. Between 2008 and 2020, Luc Janssen did the interviews and voice-over. As of 2023, Bent van Looy took over this task. Also see a review of this last season here.
Jan Delvaux, contributor to the program, also published a book in 2011 entitled Belpop: de eerste vijftig jaar, in which he describes the history of Belgian pop music, from Kili Watch of The Cousins to the present.
Also see the following video on belgian music history: Belpop Bonanza #1000 – Een duik in 40 jaar AB geschiedenis
The interviews can be found under the numbers AC015-AC045 within the collection C.J. Heeren. The following can be found here within roo – 0260 Geluidsopnamen Roosendaal, 1936-heden
Title: De Trommelaeren van Roesendaele: een sociaal-cultureel beeld van de jaren vijftig en zestig
Author: Cees Heeren
Publisher: Gemeentearchief Roosendaal, Roosendaal, 1990
ISBN: 9789073080041
Between 1983-1988, Cees Heeren interviewed several people from Roosendaal for the purpose of his book De Trommelaeren van Roesendaele: een sociaal-cultureel beeld van de jaren vijftig en 60. The interviews covered the 1950s and 1960s. These 31 interviews are stored in the West Brabant Archives.
To celebrate the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Zuiderzee Museum in Enkhuizen, the Netherlands, in 2023. This was accompanied by a special exhibition, which was celebrated both by employees as well as former employees and volunteers. A start was made the year before to speak with former employees. Femke van Drongelen had tracked down several people who had helped build the outdoor museum, and ten former employees were also interviewed. Here you may find a video about the importance of these former employees.
Their stories illuminated the history of the museum and the history of Enkhuizen. All kinds of beautiful stories emerged as a result. These were incorporated into the exhibit.
The following people were interviewed:
The collection has not yet been digitized and therefore cannot be viewed directly at Sound & Vision. Digitization can, however, be requested from Sound & Vision via: zakelijk@beeldengeluid.nl
In DAAN, the digital archive of Sound & Vision the following item can be found: Oral History 19-11-1987 VPRO, an interview with Lichtveld concerning his work as a member of the purification commission for broadcasting
Also see a four hour long interview with Lichtveld from the VPRO
Annemieke Kaan interviewed Lou Lichtveld (1903-1996) for her doctoral thesis on history (RUU) on Suriname. Helman speaks about the government of the former Dutch colony and about his literary work.
Lichtveld came to the Netherlands at the age of 18, did journalistic work, studied music and developed into a (film) composer and film critic. He went back to Suriname in 1949 and held several public positions in the country. For example, he served as Minister of Education from 1949-51 and as Minister Plenipotentiary of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the 1960s. He also emerged as an inspiring figure in Surinamese cultural life. For his books he often chose the country as a subject, although he mainly addressed a Dutch audience. Later he settled in the Netherlands again.
The collection has not yet been digitized and therefore cannot be viewed directly at Sound & Vision. Digitization can, however, be requested from Sound & Vision via: zakelijk@beeldengeluid.nl
Schmelzer (born 1911) recounts how he and his cabaret group joined the regiment of shock troops during the period in question. Songs are sung during the interview, accompanied by Schmelzer on the piano. Furthermore, he lists what the various members of the cabaret group of the time went on to do later. Among other things, Schmelzer himself was Foreign Minister in the Biesheuvel Cabinet from July 1971 to May 11, 1973.
Parts of the interview were incorporated by Jaap van der Merwe into his VARA radio series on the period 1940-45, broadcast during 1973.
Type interview: scientific
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Ernst Radius talks with Bob Bertina (1914-2012) about Dutch Catholics’ attitudes toward film after 1945. The relationship between Christians and film has never been unequivocal. Bertina was a film critic for the Volkskrant for many years, a member of the editorial board of several (Catholic) film magazines and involved in Katholieke Film Actie (KFA). In particular, it discusses the Catholic film censorship, organized in the Katholieke Film Centrale (KFC), in which leading film critics – besides Bertina Charles Boost and Janus van Domburg – played a role. Between 1945 and 1979, Bertina wrote about films in the Volkskrant. In his early days, film was still considered immoral by the Catholic Church. When the Volkskrant became a progressive newspaper in the late 1960s, Bertina welcomed it. He always sided with art.
Bertina explains the not unproblematic relationship between film criticism and film censorship. The premise endorsed by both ‘camps’, ‘work for good film’, was given different interpretations because the former reasoned primarily from an aesthetic point of view and the latter took a primarily moralistic stance. Bertina refers with approval to the brochure Film en moraal [Film and morality], which the progressive ‘filmpater’ Jac. Dirkse once wrote and in which he advocated, among other things, an independent relationship between Catholic film critics and the Catholic film censors.
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
The interview discusses the relationship between the Dutch Reformed Church and film. Reverend Willem Overbosch was involved in the realization of the Report on the Cinema Issue, which was commissioned by the Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church in 1946 and which advocated a critical but positive attitude toward film.
Also discussed are film censorship and, more specifically, the activities of the Centrale Commissie voor de Filmkeuring and the Film Center Foundation. This organization was founded in 1947 (initially under the name Stichting Kerk en Film) in order to give shape to the conclusions of the aforementioned report by providing information about film in Protestant Christian circles. Finally, the Prof. Dr. G. van der Leeuw Foundation, meeting center of church and art, is discussed. Persons discussed are: L. Eker, Dr. A. Dronkers, P.J. van Mullem, Prof. Dr. G. van der Leeuw and D. van Staveren.
Type interview: journalism
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In DAAN, the digital archive of Beeld & Geluid the following item can be found: Radio Doc: de zoektocht van Philo Bregstein. In this interview Bregstein discusses Klemperer.
The interviews were conducted on behalf of Philo Bregstein’s film Otto Klemperer’s journey through his times (1973, 95 min). Bregstein made this film about the German conductor and composer Otto Klemperer (1885-1973) on assignment for R.M. Productions. In these interviews, Bregstein paid attention not only to Klemperer’s life but also to the broader musical climate in Germany in the 20th century. Here, attention is paid to the influence of Mahler, Bruckner, Schoenberg and Strawinsky. The interviews are therefore useful for broader music history.
In the early 20th century, Klemperer’s unusual, modern opera staging attracted attention. Klemperer came from a Jewish family and consequently left Germany for the United States in 1933. After World War II, he settled in Zurich. The commentary accompanying the film is largely spoken by the conductor himself, compiled from the interviews. His daughter Lotte also appears in it. The production was later, on May 19, broadcast on German television (ARD) under the title Otto Klemperers lange Reise, which is in the Sound & Vision archives.
The following individuals were interviewed:
Bregstein also made a separate film in 1971 about the rehearsals leading up to the last concert Klemperer conducted in September 1971. This appeared under the title Otto Klemperer in rehearsal and concert (54 min).
Type interview: journalism
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The interviews with the Swiss farmer and painter Schäublin (1895-1978) were made for Bregstein’s television portrait of his life and work, entitled Boer and Schilder (farmer and painter) and broadcast by the NCRV on September 1, 1976. Bregstein conducted the interviews together with his wife, the painter Marline Fritzius.
Early on, the former bank employee Schäublin from Basel retired to the mountain village of Klosters to live as a farmer. In his spare time, he painted a total of about 15 works. However, except for a single exhibition, he kept them for himself. In the interview he talks, among other things, about the painter Grünewald, whom he admired, the writers Lev Tolstoi, Jeremias Gotthelf and Thomas Mann, and the influence he underwent from Buddhism and the writings of Lao-tse. He also talks about his view of hectic modern life and about his own work, in which magical-realist, expressionist and symbolist traits can be recognized.