“That did what to do when I was on stage there, with my family in the room,” says Jeroen Krabbé afterwards. “I had to tear away a tear. It was special that I received this prize from René Mioch, a real film connoisseur I have known for about forty years.”
Jeroen Krabbé (80) married Herma for sixty years: ‘A marriage is not a prison, you have to trust each other that it will be fine’
Laughing: “I still asked him:” At the age of 80 you give me this award, just before I am no longer there? ” That was of course meant as a joke, because I am really surprised by it.
‘Enjoyed every minute’
René Mioch told Jeroen Krabbé that he should regard the oeuvre prize as ‘the crown on his work’. “But honestly: I never saw this as a work. It is great that I was able to enter this beautiful profession for sixty years, as a playwright, film star and director. All those years I never thought I had to go to work, never enjoyed every minute.”
Jeroen Krabbé with his wife Herma and their son Jacob. © Wesley de Wit
After the presentation, Krabbé joined his visibly proud woman Herma and their sons Jakob and Jasper. Absent was the seriously ill Martijn, who hardly appears in public. “He was not physically present in the room, but I felt his warmth around me. Somehow he was there anyway.”