Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Favorite Import of the Day: Harald Kempe


I had never heard of German actor Harald Kempe until last week.  After seeing a few caps of his beautiful naked body, I had to find out more....  The caps were from the 1989 German film Wedding and Kempe had that sort of 70's/80's vibe, especially with his hair. 

I tried to find Wedding on-line to buy or download, but didn't have much luck.  I did however, know just where (and who) to go to about clips.  Thanks to xyzpdq from dearly departed site Scenes from Male Skin, I found clips both from Wedding, and from Kempe's other nude scene from the German television show. Tatort. 

Tatort - Blood Sausage Waltz (1991)

Tatort is an anthology series that follows the work of police officers in Germany.  Tatort is the 'Law & Order' of Germany, airing for 20 years from 1991-2011.  Kempe appeared in episodes in both the first, and last seasons of the series.. 




Wedding (1989)

'Three former school friends, all grown up in Wedding, the blue collar district of West Berlin, have not seen each other for a decade, meet in their old teenage hide-out, a storage depot close to the East Berlin Wall in the summer of 1989.'


The scene from Wedding is really great, but the clips were too large to add to the blog.  I uploaded it to SendSpace in two parts.  Download Part 1 HERE: & Part 2 HERE:


The German actor and singer (tenor) is probably most known to German television audiences from his role as petty criminal Juan Carlos Kleemann on the German police drama Die liebe Verwalten. Although he still pops on television from time to time, Kempe also spent a lot of time as a stuntman and on the stage in musical theatre productions.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

I have bad news for you: Harald Kempe died earlier this year.
Then a side note on Tatort. That show can not be compared to "Law and Order" and it still airs today. And the first episode is from back in 1970.

Tye said...

That is bad news, especially for Kempe and his family. I did see something about his possible death in 2022, but could not find anything, not an obituary or notice, to confirm it.