Hermenegildus Felix Victor Maria (Herman) Finkers (Almelo, 9 December 1954)… Read Full Bio ↴Hermenegildus Felix Victor Maria (Herman) Finkers (Almelo, 9 December 1954) is a comedian from the Dutch region of Twente, who became famous because of his dry-witted humor and his ambiguous style of storytelling. He temporarily stopped performing in 2000 when he had been diagnosed with leukemia. On August 5, 2006 a Fuchsia was named after him. He speaks with a fairly strong Twents (low saxon) accent for comic effect and is able to speak the low saxon dialect itself fluently if his audience is able to understand this. He is also perfectly capable of non-regionally accented Dutch, however. Most recently he announced to go on with his career in theatre, now that he has "found renewed inspiration".

Theater performances
Op Zwart Zangzaad (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 all the world for me") 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 to no avail, tomorrow it has to rise again") (1990)
Dat heeft zo'n jongen toch niet nodig ("Such a boy shouldn't need that") (1992)
Geen spatader veranderd ("Not changed one varicose vein") (1995) (also in Twents: "Gen spatoader aans")
Kalm aan en rap een beetje ("Take it easy, quickly") (1998) (also in Twents: "Hoanig an en rap wat")
Na de pauze ("After the break") (2007)

Discography
EHBO is mijn lust en mijn leven
De zon gaat zinloos onder, morgen moet zij toch weer op
Carnaval der Dieren / Sint Joris Mis
Kroamschudd'n in Mariaparochie / MacBeth (animatiefilms)
Dat heeft zo'n jongen toch niet nodig
Geen spatader veranderd
Kalm aan en rap een beetje
Een engelhart in Rome (Een diepzinnige Herman Finkers in het Vaticaan op audiëntie)
Na de pauze

Official Website

NANA
Herman Finkers Lyrics

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Ik had vannacht een natte droom
Van Nana Mouskouri die zonder schroom
In minirok
Langzaam haar bril uittrok
Ze keek me daarna glazig aan en opende haar mond
Ze zei dat zij me zonder bril veel kanpper vond
Liefdebrieven schreef ik haar, o zo vele malen
Ik kreeg 'are ook nog een terug, ze wou de strafport niet betalen

Dus tijd dat ik nuchter raak
Dat ik uit die droom ontwaak

Hoor eens hoe ik dapper roep
Acht, uit die Mouskouri komt ook gewoon poep

Overall Meaning

The lyrics of the song "Nana" by Herman Finkers tell a rather amusing dream sequence where he saw the famous Greek singer Nana Mouskouri in a mini skirt and slowly taking off her glasses. She then looked at him with a blank expression and said that he looked better without her glasses, to which he had been writing love letters to her for a long time. He even received one back but had to pay the postage. The lyrics were meant to be interpreted in a humorous way, with the dream being a form of wishful thinking on Finkers' part.

The song is a tongue-in-cheek approach to unrequited love or obsession, where the persona in the song pines for someone who may not reciprocate or be unattainable. The notion of the dream as a form of wish fulfillment is played on here, where the dream sequence is over-the-top and absurd in nature, with the singer's feelings being a misplaced adoration towards a public figure he can't have a relationship with, but longs for nonetheless.

Line by Line Meaning

Ik had vannacht een natte droom
Last night I had a dream that turned me on

Van Nana Mouskouri die zonder schroom
Nana Mouskouri appeared in my dream without any hesitation

In minirok
She was wearing a short skirt

Langzaam haar bril uittrok
She slowly took off her glasses

Ze keek me daarna glazig aan en opende haar mond
She then looked at me blankly and opened her mouth

Ze zei dat zij me zonder bril veel kanpper vond
She told me that she found me more attractive without her glasses on

Liefdebrieven schreef ik haar, o zo vele malen
I wrote her countless love letters

Ik kreeg 'are ook nog een terug, ze wou de strafport niet betalen
I even received a reply, but she didn't want to pay the postage

Dus tijd dat ik nuchter raak
So it's time that I come to my senses

Dat ik uit die droom ontwaak
That I wake up from that dream

Hoor eens hoe ik dapper roep
Listen to me shouting bravely