Hanneke Groenteman is a Dutch journalist, radio broadcaster and television presenter who tends to focus on culture-related topics.

Her longest wartime placement was also the last: for eighteen months between 1943 and 1945 she lived with the Van Starkenburgs, a loving family of committed Christians, in the village of Rijnsburg, close to the coastal resort of Katwijk.

The child pined for "Aunt Cor and Uncle Kees" while finding her relationship with her birth-parents difficult ("moeizaam").

[1] Groenteman then took a job with Het Parool, a mass circulation Amsterdam daily newspaper.

For four years during the mid-1970s she was employed on an innovative education related project by the psychologist Co van Calcar [nl].

Although the riots were instigated as a protest against the housing shortage under the slogan "No homes, no coronation" ("Geen woning, geen kroning"), their scale and the accompanying violence led to suggestions that many of the participants had arrived with a larger agenda, and there was a public backlash against the protestors.

She subsequently moved across to the VPRO (public television operator): for seven years she presented the arts programme "De Plantage".

The Jamin (Retail chain) [nl] reacted adversely to her title choice, demanding that it be changed.

"), described her experience as an overweight woman who had lost 45 kg (more than 100 pounds) following a surgical procedure in 2006 to reduce the size of her stomach.