Drs. P

Heinz Hermann Polzer (; 24 August 1919 – 13 June 2015), better known under his pseudonym Drs. P , was a Swiss singer-songwriter, poet, and prose writer in the Dutch language. His lyrics and poems used dry humour and surprising twists, enabled by his vast vocabulary.

After his parents divorced, when he was 3 years old, he and his mother moved to the Netherlands, where he grew up. His mother tongue was Dutch. He obtained a master's degree in economics at the Economische Hogeschool Rotterdam (currently Erasmus University Rotterdam). Thus, he was entitled to use the academic title of doctorandus (drs.). (Hitler & Mussolini) who were punished by Uncle Sam (the USA). He was imprisoned in the Oranjehotel for four months, which were extended by two months after he had drawn a card game featuring Hitler and Mussolini as jokers.

In 1954, Polzer went to Indonesia, where he worked for an advertising company. He started to write songs. From 1965, he became known to a wide audience after a TV appearance in Willem Duys' programme. Duys styled him Drs. P, which he continued to use as his pseudonym. Drs. P in 2011 He also wrote the scripts for the comic strip Dan Teal by Johnn Bakker under the pseudonym "Geo Staad".

In 1998, he gave his last concert. A book with the texts of all his songs appeared on that day. During his lifetime he wrote hundreds of songs, thousands of poems, and a lot of prose under the pseudonym Drs. P. Other poetry forms he invented were the balladet and the triolet.

Discography His discography consist of (at least) 40 titles of LP's, EP's and singles.

Death Drs. P. smoked cigars throughout his life, but as an old man wrote a poem that he regretted that he never dared to smoke a cigarette or marihuana. Drs. P. died of old age on 13 June 2015, aged 95, in Amsterdam. A new double CD, Drs. P Retrouvé, was released in November 2016, featuring 31 songs recorded in 1972 and 1973 for the weekly radio show Poptater. Of the 31 songs, 12 had never been released before.

Prizes De Nieuwe Clercke-Pico Bello-prijs (1979) Cestoda-prijs (1986) Kees Stip-prijs (1986) Golden Harp (1991) Edison Award (1992) Tollens Prize (2000) Special charter of the Dutch Language Union (2009)