Maria Antoinette "Mies" Bouwman (31 December 1929 – 26 February 2018) was a Dutch television presenter.
Career
Born in
Amsterdam
Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the Capital of the Netherlands, capital and Municipalities of the Netherlands, most populous city of the Netherlands, with The Hague being the seat of government. It has a population ...
, she started her career on the very first broadcasting evening of the Dutch broadcasting association
KRO
KRO, or (Catholic Radio Broadcasting), was a Dutch public broadcasting organization founded on 23 April 1925.
Broadly Catholic in its spiritual outlook, KRO broadcast the bulk of its television output on the NPO 1 channel. KRO was also responsi ...
(Catholic Radio Broadcaster) on 16 October 1951.
Bouwman made her name as the host of the first large fund-raising programme on Dutch TV,''
Open Het Dorp
''Open Het Dorp'' ("Open The Village") was the first big fundraising TV show in the Netherlands. It aired on Dutch TV on 26 and 27 November 1962.
''Het Dorp'' is a special village or community for disabled people. To raise the required funds to ...
''. In this show viewers were asked to donate money for charity, in order to open a special village for people with a handicap. This show was broadcast live on 26 and 27 November 1962 and lasted 23 hours. Bouwman presented the entire show. Bouwman developed and hosted ', known in the UK as ''
The Generation Game
''The Generation Game'' is a British game show produced by the BBC in which four teams of two people from the same family, but different generations, compete to win prizes.
The game
There are eight competitors, hence the catchphrase "Let's m ...
''. She hosted numerous talk shows, as well as the Dutch version of ''
This Is Your Life'' known as '. She stopped her regular work after falling sick, but has occasionally returned for special programs.
Bouwman definitively ended her career in 1993 due to health restrictions, and was invested as a Knight of the
Order of Orange-Nassau
The Order of Orange-Nassau ( nl, Orde van Oranje-Nassau, links=no) is a civil and military Dutch order of chivalry founded on 4 April 1892 by the queen regent, Emma of the Netherlands.
The order is a chivalric order open to "everyone who has ...
. She later appeared on TV for interviews, but never as host, only as a guest.
Death
Bouwman died on 26 February 2018 in
Elst, Netherlands at the age of 88.
Mies Bouwman (88) overleden
See also
*Netherlands Public Broadcasting
(; abbreviated to NPO ; literally "Dutch Public Broadcaster") or Dutch Foundation for Public Broadcasting () is a Dutch public broadcasting organisation that administers public broadcasting services in the Netherlands. The NPO is also the owner ...
Sources and references
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1929 births
2018 deaths
Mass media people from Amsterdam
Dutch television presenters
Dutch women television presenters
Dutch television talk show hosts
Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau
20th-century Dutch women