VPRO figurehead Wim T. Schippers (1942-2026): iconic voice of Ernie with a talent for disruption

Elusive, versatile and undeniably contradictory: Wim T. Schippers is just as difficult to describe as his oeuvre. The artist, (voice) actor and program maker who died on June 10 lived to mislead his audience: “Weird ideas take shape. It means nothing and it is about nothing, and it is something.”

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