Janine Abbring turns out to be one of the victims of the bizarre misconduct of Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and his tyrannical TV assistant Dieuwke Wynia. “I resigned from DWDD.”
The Matthijs van Nieuwkerkcesspool is open and is already being advocated for TV farewell. The number of victims of his misconduct is enormous, but his TV assistant Dieuwke Wynia also appears to have contributed a lot. “Some editors say they have been damaged more by Wynia than by Van Nieuwkerk,” writes de Volkskrant.
Dieuwke’s Expedition
Dieuwke started in 2008 as editor-in-chief of DWDD. Before that time she was ‘nice, involved and sensitive’, but in her new position she underwent a ‘bizarre transformation’, former employees state in de Volkskrant. She could perhaps shout even louder than Matthijs. “If Matthijs didn’t like something, she came screaming to the editors.”
The way she led the editorial office appears to have been extremely unhealthy. “Dieuwke had two editors compete for a place in the next season,” says an editor. “Sometimes it seemed like a kind of Expedition Robinson.”
False secretion
All those years at DWDD, Dieuwke appears to have behaved like a false secret. De Volkskrant cites an example in which Dieuwke approves a video by an editor. A little later, Matthijs thinks differently: “He said: ‘This is so badly made. How is this possible?'”
Then Dieuwke pretended to see it for the first time, put her hand over her mouth and said: “Oh, no, no.”
Janine’s resignation
Janine Abbring, known from Zomergasten, also appears to be a victim of Dieuwke’s false behaviour. She was one of the reporters of the program in 2011, a Jackal, and had a ‘hard clash’ with Dieuwke at the editorial office. He thought that Janine had not informed her well enough about something.
Dieuwke sent an e-mail to the entire editorial staff in which she embarrassed Janine. “Dieuwke was furious,” says a colleague in the newspaper. “She said she would make sure that Janine would never get a job in Hilversum again.”
It was not taken by Janine, who left a day later after a spicy email to Dieuwke, who is also in the Volkskrant. She confirms: “It is true that I once resigned from DWDD because of the, in my opinion, unacceptable way in which people were treated by the editor-in-chief of that program.”
Victim role
Dieuwke says in a comment that she herself was also a victim of Matthijs: “He could get very angry, including at me. His tantrums were fierce, he seemed like a different person at such moments. I have also sat sadly, crying in front of him. He reacted insensitively to that and walked away.”
She says that it was always a trade-off between the interests of the editors and the wishes of Matthijs. “When we talk about perpetrators and victims, I’m in a gray area. At the end of my editor-in-chief, I often went home sad. I left DWDD mainly because of Matthijs.”
Horrible woman
Angela de Jong notices that Dieuwke emphatically chooses to play the victim role. “She now also calls herself a kind of victim,” she says at Jinek.
Ozcan Akyol, bestie van Matthijs, then: “Yes, I do have a problem with that. We have all seen that she still worked with Matthijs in that book program afterwards. Then I think: you are clearing your own street, because you have collectively failed, so don’t blame it all on one person.”
Omroep MAX boss Jan Slagter in Op1: “She now dives and says that it was Matthijs’s fault. I do not like that.”
The bouncer comes from Johan Derksen: “I think that’s a terrible woman. That is a creep of a woman.”
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