Bart FM Droog

In 2002, the city council of Groningen appointed Droog as the first stadsdichter (city poet), for a three year period. In that period he developed the concept of 'De eenzame uitvaart' (The Lonely Funeral): the city poet writes a poem for the deceased without relatives and reads the poem at the funeral. Poets in other cities in the Netherlands and Flanders adopted this idea. Droog was, from 2008 to 2010, also the city poet of his town of birth. He established the Stichting Nederlandse Poëzie Encyclopedie (Foundation Dutch Poetry Encyclopedia), of which the main goals are to spread Dutch poetry and the knowledge of Dutch language poetry, including through the online Poetry Encyclopedia, the Nederlandse Poëzie Encyclopedie. From 2013 onwards, Droog also works as an investigative journalist. Subjects he has published about include: • An unsolved murder case in Groningen's squatters scene in 1990 • Forged poems by Adolf Hitler • The probably wrong attribution of a painting to Adolf Hitler by the Dutch Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies (NIOD), a study that was widely cited internationally • Hendrik de Jong ('the Dutch Jack the Ripper') • The controversy surrounding the admittance of Ad van Liempt to the degree of doctor of philosophy (Ph.D.) at the State University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen) in May 2019.

The recorded working language is Dutch. The field of work recorded is poetry, journalism and publishing and bookselling. Places of work recorded in the authority are Groningen.