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Drs. P. Heinz Hermann Polzer (German pronunciation: [haɪnts ˈhɛrman ˈpɔltsər]; 24 August 1919 – 13 June 2015), better known under his pseudonym Drs. P (Dutch pronunciation: [dɔktoːˈrɑndɵs peː]), was a Swiss singer-songwriter, poet, and prose writer in the Dutch language.[2] Other pseudonyms were Geo Staad, Coos Neetebeem (a variant of the name of Dutch writer Cees Nooteboom)[3] and drandus P.[4] He had a characteristic, cracking, voice.
Drs. P. Heinz Hermann Polzer was born on 24 August 1919 in Thun in Switzerland.[2] He had a Dutch mother and an Austrian father who had been naturalized into a Dutchman. However, being born in Switzerland, Polzer was of Swiss nationality, which he never changed.[5]
After his parents divorced, when he was 3 years old, he and his mother moved to the Netherlands, where he grew up.[1] His mother tongue was Dutch. He obtained a master’s degree in economics at the Economische Hogeschool Rotterdam (currently Erasmus University Rotterdam). Thus, he was entitled to use the academic title of doctorandus (drs.).[2]
Drs. P. Heinz Hermann Polzer In 1942, during the German occupation of the Netherlands, he wrote a children’s story about Dolf & Ben (Hitler & Mussolini) who were punished by Uncle Sam (the USA). He was imprisoned in the Oranjehotel for four months, which were extended by two months after he had drawn a card game featuring Hitler and Mussolini as jokers.[5] Upon his release from prison, he fled to Switzerland, where he served in the military from 1942–44. In 1945, he went to Paris to serve the Red Cross. After the German capitulation, he returned to the Netherlands.[6]
In 1954, Polzer went to Indonesia, where he worked for an advertising company.[7] He started to write songs. From 1965, he became known to a wide audience after a TV appearance in Willem Duys’ programme. Duys styled him Drs. P, which he continued to use as his pseudonym.[5]Source Wikipedia
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