Han Peekel

Han Peekel
Born	(1947-10-06)6 October 1947 Rotterdam, Netherlands
Died	14 December 2022(2022-12-14) (aged 75) Sanur, Indonesia
Nationality	Dutch
Occupation(s)	television producer and television presenter

Han Peekel (6 October 1947 – 14 December 2022) was a Dutch television producer, writer, radio- and television presenter. He was best known as presenter of television programs as Wordt Vervolgd [nl] and TV Monument [nl]. Peekel also produced television shows and wrote books.

Biography

Peekel started in the 1960s as a singer of Dutch songs and was presenter at Radio Veronica. He became known for his television appearenaces. The television program Wordt Vervolgd [nl] about comics and cartoons started in 1983 and Peekel presented the program for seventeen years. Since 2009 he was the presenter of TV Monument [nl].

In 2012 he became Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau for his services to television, radio and cabaret. He received the award from the mayor of Hilversum Pieter Broertjes.

Peekel died during a holiday in Sanur at the Indonesian island Bali on 14 December 2022, at the age of 75.

Comic cameo appearances

Peekel had a cameo appearance in the comics

• As a colleague of Jan Tromp [nl] in album 12 of Jack, Jacky and the Juniors.
• As a courtier at the court of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor in the Spike and Suzy album De kleine postruiter [nl]