Career
In his way of telling a story the moral should never be in the way of a good joke or pun. Wilfried Finkers co-wrote material and occasionally appeared in his brother"s shows. Herman Finkers temporarily stopped performing in 2000, and soon afterwards he was diagnosed with a form of leukemia.
He was given an estimate of 10 to 15 years of life left.
On August 5, 2006 a Fuchsia was named after him. In 2007 he started playing in theatres again, with a new show called "Na de Pauze" (After the Break).
On 31 December 2015 he gave the traditional New Year"s Eve conference on Dutch television, in which he remarked that the chance that he would become 90 years old was statistically larger than the chance that he died three years ago. Finkers is a devout Catholic.
Finkers has a strong love for the dialect.
He has translated a number of his shows into Low Saxon, which is his mother tongue. He also wrote and directed two short animation films, which were completely in: Kroamschudd"n in Mariaparochie (which tells the story of the birth of Christ in a setting) and his comic interpretation of William Shakespeare"s MacBeth, the former of which is shown annually around christmas on regional television After his retirement from theatre, Finkers played a role in the first Soap series in: "Van Jonge Leu en Oale Groond" (Of Young People and Old Ground).
Op Zwart Zangzaad ("On Black Birdseed") (1979)
De terugkeer van Joop Huizinga ("Joop Huizinga"s Return") 1982
De Diana Ros Show ("The Diana Ros Show") 1983
EHBO is mijn lust en mijn leven ("First aid is the love of my life") 1985
Het Meisje van de Slijterij ("The liquor store girl") 1987
De zon gaat zinloos onder, morgen moet zij toch weer op ("The sun sets pointlessly, it has got to rise again tomorrow anyway") (1990)
Dat heeft zo"n jongen toch niet nodig ("A guy like him doesn"t need that") (1992)
Geen spatader veranderd ("Not changed one bit") (1995) (also in ch: "General spatoader aans")
Kalm aan en rap een beetje ("Take it easy, on the double") (1998) (also in ch: "Heanig an en rap wat")
Na de pauze ("After the break") (2007)
Een uur Herman Finkers ("An hour of Herman Finkers") (2015).