{"id":136437,"date":"2026-08-31T11:28:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?p=136437"},"modified":"2026-08-31T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:28:47","slug":"leve-de-lsd-van-het-groningse-klaphek-janine-abbring-bij-het-einde-van-zomergasten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/en\/2026\/08\/leve-de-lsd-van-het-groningse-klaphek-janine-abbring-bij-het-einde-van-zomergasten\/","title":{"rendered":"Long live the LSD by Klaphek from Groningen, Janine Abbring (At the end of # Zomergasten)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhy would you get up in the morning and not commit suicide?\u2018 A good question for a psychiatrist, and it was just one of the countless remarkable moments during the very last episode of *Zomergasten*, on 30 August 2026. Perhaps by not becoming a \u201dquarterly drinker\u2018 and sticking to a couple of light IPAs a day? For the sake of mental health? Jim van Os, a famous \u2013 and, to some, notorious \u2013 psychiatrist, ensured that this final episode will be talked about for a long time to come. He owes a great deal of that to his interviewee: Janine Abbring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her boyfriend, *Nieuwsuur* presenter Jeroen Wollaars, calls her \u2018The Groningen Sliding Gate\u2019, because she\u2019s so good at shutting people out, even though she\u2019s usually as open as can be. She admitted this quite early on in her conversation with Jim van Os, a psychiatrist with an intriguing demeanour. Slightly uncertain, but with a strong focus on his table companion, he seems to be struggling against the natural charm that appears to radiate from him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Father<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Freud, now widely disparaged as an interpreter of the human psyche, would surely have had some interesting things to say on the matter. For, as Jim explained, his father made full use of his charm. Something that was apparently common practice amongst gynaecologists in the 1970s. According to Jim, back then you became a gynaecologist so you could womanise. Or to plant a bit of seed here and there if things \u2018didn\u2019t materialise\u2019 during standard infertility treatment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that he has a half-brother and half-sister, he has little praise for his father, who coped with the trauma of his Indonesian past by being a \u2018quarterly drinker\u2019 \u2013 which meant that every three months he would transform from a sober doctor into a drunken alcoholic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Talent<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But enough about his father, and actually enough about Jim van Os too. Let\u2019s talk about Janine. Because this latest episode was yet another showcase of her talent. It was in our <a href=\"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?s=zomergasten\">'Zomergasten' reviews<\/a> I often heard about interviewers who were more concerned with their own performance than with the interview itself. These weren\u2019t just men, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?s=zomergasten%20theo%20maassen\">Theo Maassen<\/a>, but also a woman such as <a href=\"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?s=zomergasten%20griet%20\">Griet Op de Beeck<\/a> It failed right from the start: listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so Janine really knows how to listen. She listens intently, with a face that speaks volumes, and very often conveys the surprise or wonder that you, as a viewer, also feel. That alone made the programme featuring the blessed orator <a href=\"https:\/\/cultureelpersbureau.nl\/?s=zomergasten%20wieringa\">Tommy Wieringa<\/a> to get through it. Now in conversation with Jim van Os \u2013 a man who did his best not to come across as too know-it-all, but who was still full of jargon \u2013 Abbring did what a good interviewer should do: summarise what her interviewee was saying in plain language, and then ask follow-up questions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Theatre<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In interview coaching jargon, this is known as LSD: Listening, Summarising and Asking Follow-up Questions. When applied consistently, as on Abbring\u2019s *Zomergasten*, it has a hallucinatory and mind-expanding effect. In doing so, she also makes it clear just how much of a loss the end of *Zomergasten* will be for national television. Of course, 250,000 viewers is a drop in the ocean for broadcasting executives, but even a small theatre would struggle to attract that many people in a whole year. Nothing to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For almost forty years, on six Sunday evenings a year, part of the Netherlands would wind down. That tranquillity was disrupted for about 15 years because a certain social network wanted to be a \u2018second screen\u2019, but in the last few years that has become completely irrelevant again. We\u2019ve chosen once again to simply listen and watch, rather than making a fuss after every quote. It\u2019s much more enjoyable on the following Monday, with visitor figures for this modest website approaching those of the programme itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Little dog<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of course, the data centres of the big tech companies are full of <a href=\"https:\/\/nieuwsbrief.cultuurpers.nl\/podcast\">podcasts and video casts<\/a> where people have the most interesting conversations with one another \u2013 sometimes lasting far longer than the three hours we set aside for *Zomergasten* \u2013 but on the internet, you miss out on that sense of community. You listen on your own, whilst ignoring your dog and passers-by who wave as you take him for a walk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re going to miss Janine and her little dog terribly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><div class=\"su-note\"  style=\"border-color:#e5e54c;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-note-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"background-color:#FFFF66;border-color:#ffffff;color:#333333;border-radius:3px;-moz-border-radius:3px;-webkit-border-radius:3px;\">We said goodbye to *Zomergasten* on 30 August 2026. <a href=\"https:\/\/npo.nl\/start\/serie\/vpro-zomergasten\/afleveringen\/seizoen-39\">Three weeks left to watch<\/a>.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Waarom zou je \u2018s morgens opstaan en je niet su\u00efcideren?&#8221; Goeie vraag voor een psychiater en het was maar \u00e9\u00e9n van de talloze opmerkelijke momenten tijdens de allerlaatste uitzending van Zomergasten, op 30 augustus 2026. Misschien door geen &#8216;kwartaaldrinker&#8217; te worden en het te houden bij een paar light-ipa&#8217;s per dag? Voor de geestelijke gezondheid? 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