[1] After graduating from high school, Finkelde studied philosophy, theology and literature in Berlin, Munich and Paris.
Dominik Finkelde was ordained as a Catholic priest by the Freiburg Bishop Bernd Uhl in June 2009 in the Cathedral of St. Blaise [de].
In 1996, he received the Gerhart Hauptmann Prize (together with Jens Roselt) for his first play, "Abendgruß", which premiered in 1998 at the Theater Magdeburg, depicting the fictitious biography of a former East German border guard.
In the award of the jury, Klaus Völker wrote: "Here we have a small, very sensitive and cautiously depicted family drama ... in the tradition of Ibsen".
[2] His dystopia Berlin Underground is about the breakup of the two-class society in the near future and was premiered in 1999 by the Landesbühne Niedersachsen Nord in Wilhelmshaven.