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Herman Finkers, despite being ill, is brimming with ideas: ‘I’m on the move’.

Things are going well for Herman Finkers, given the circumstances. The 68-year-old comedian, who has leukemia, is satisfied with how things are going. “I’m still walking around. I feel good”, he said Friday evening in André van Duin’s program, With van Duin in the backseat.

More than 20 years ago, Finkers was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a form with the longest life expectancy. In 2023, he is still full of ambitions. That’s what success tastes like The legs of Sint-Hildegard (in which he played the leading role), to more. “I would like to make a movie. Or a theater program. But when should you do it all? For the time being I am still very busy with the things that no one is interested in, except me”, he confided to Van Duin.

,,Although”, he continued with a smile, his glasses in his hands, ,,two more CDs will be released in April.” Finkers rewrote the Jorismis (which he himself composed on the occasion of his marriage) and made a album ‘with songs he wrote outside the theaters’. ,,And I am The little Prince translating into Twente. The holy princess. I enjoy that very much.”

Finkers also discussed the usefulness of cabaret on the red plush of the old-timer, which drove through the streets of his hometown of Almelo on Friday evening and was jokingly driven by writer Özcan Akyol. “I sometimes say: A cabaret artist is a comedian with a defect. A comedian can make people laugh. Timed just right, with a good look. A comedian always needs an excuse, a quasi-intellectual thing.”

Finkers, on his show After the Intermission, talked about when he was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia:

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