De Geer’s death was reported by NRC on Tuesday. The television maker died on Monday in his hometown of Amsterdam. De Geer is mainly known among the general public for the program ‘t is here Fantasties, which he presented from 1995 to 2001. In that program, De Geer portrayed various groups of Dutch people abroad.
“I myself was on holiday in the South of France and happened to eat with very decent people,” De Geer said in 2019 in the AD. “A few guys from the Dutch kickboxing scene entered that restaurant. I thought that was so beautiful, that confrontation, that I thought: there is a program in it and RTL thought that too. But I had to give up my own talk show Ursul, and I regretted it later. ”
At the beginning of this century, De Geer exchanged his role as a television maker for that of a stage director – a profession that he also performed for his television work. “It was like this: I was done with ‘fantasies’ and didn’t want to leave all kinds of discos in Southern Europe anymore,” he explained in the same interview. “And then I read Glow, by the Hungarian writer Sándor Márai. I knew: I am going to perform this play and no one else. And there were indeed theater directors who said: should that floppy turd from television direct that? They didn’t know I used to do that before. I had to do this, it was my mission. ”
Besides presenter and director, De Geer was also an actor. After high school in Zeist, De Geer went to drama school in Amsterdam, where he later also studied theater science. De Geer was part of the theater group De Nieuwe Komedie and was seen on the silver screen, with roles in films such as Spetters and Ademloos.
