Program maker Harry de Winter passed away on Tuesday evening at the age of 73. His family reported this on Wednesday. He had been suffering from asbestos cancer for a long time.
De Winter was diagnosed with asbestos cancer in 2020. In 2019, he received complaints during a trip to New Zealand, after which he had himself examined.
In addition to being a presenter, De Winter was also active as a producer and founded the production house IDTV, which produces successful programs such as Lingo, Who is the mole? in Old money made. He was also active as an artist together with his partner, actress Yvonne van den Hurk.
The presenter made the interview program for Omroep MAX, among other things Winter time, in which he interviewed well-known Dutch people. After it became known that he was terminally ill, he was asked to make one more series of the program. In the last episode of the season he was interviewed once by Jeroen Pauw.
Omroep MAX broadcasts the episode of TV Monument with Harry de Winter out early due to the death of the television maker. The broadcast can be seen in the night from Wednesday to Thursday instead of March 26. The EO is also adjusting its broadcast schedule. The broadcaster broadcasts the documentary on Thursday evening Baby brother about De Winter.
‘I’ve done what I wanted all my life’
“It’s a strange life,” De Winter told it last year AD. “There is a sword of Damocles hanging over my head, but I don’t really want to know anything about it yet.” He didn’t feel sick and his practitioner said he was trying to make it “something chronic.”
“I still want to live”, De Winter also said a year ago in conversation with Eva Jinek. “Carpe diem. With Yvonne, family, friends. When I told my son that I’m sick a year and a half ago, he asked: ‘Do you have a bucket list?’ But I’ve done what I wanted all my life.”
Omroep MAX director Jan Slagter praises De Winter as an “optimistic, pure, passionate man”. Slagter remembers him as “someone who was always busy with music, with his profession: I knew few people who were more passionate than Harry.”
Harry was stubborn in a good way
“Harry was someone who never hid what he thought,” says Slagter. “He was amiable and could listen and talk very well. He never used an autocue in his programs. He had a few leaves in front of him and saw where the conversation was going.”
Slagter also calls De Winter “stubborn, but in a good way. When we made the plans for Omroep MAX, I discussed with him very often. He did not see the added value of the broadcaster. But later he was also the first to acknowledge that he was wrong.”
The broadcaster had been in contact with De Winter via app in recent days. “Each time he found another straw to cling to: a new therapy, a new idea. He had that optimism that characterized him until the end.”
De Winter is buried in a private circle.
