Hape Kerkeling doubts that his figure Horst Schlämmer would still be accepted today

Hape Kerkeling doubts that his figure Horst Schlämmer would still be accepted today

Hape Kerkeling doubts that his best -known figure Horst Schlämmer would still be accepted today. The 58-year-old comedian, actor and author commented on the program "Maybrit Illner" on ZDF. Horst Schlämmer, a newspaper reporter with overbite and snapping, is called the "prototype of white old man" by Kerkeling.

Kerkeling doubts that Horst Schlämmer's character concept would still be successful today. "I think people would get stuck in the throat. You couldn't bring it anymore," said Kerkeling. However, he emphasizes that it is important that a heterosexual man can play a homosexual man or a man a woman. For him, this is one of the tasks of an actor. Kerkeling also criticizes that alive foreigners in Germany should only be presented without accentations in order to avoid allegations of discrimination. He is of the opinion that this suffers art and pleads for carefully making changes in this area and taking as many people as possible.

Kerkeling also reported in the show that he had moved from Berlin to Cologne with his husband. He cited an increasing homophobia in the German capital as the reason for this. The move to Cologne has so far proven to be a good decision.

HAPE KERKELING, which has achieved great popularity with numerous sketches and figures in the past decades, thus comments on current social issues and gives insights into his private life.