David Hasselhoff has complained to museum curators after finding his photo absent in a collection of memorabilia about the fall of the Berlin Wall. The actor and producer, who says he is working on a film version of TV series Knight Rider, claims he is partly responsible for the fall of the concrete divide. Speaking to German magazine TV Spielfilm, Hasselhoff said in 1989, the year the wall fell, he had helped reunite the country by singing his song ’Looking for Freedom’ among millions of German fans at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. He said he felt he had moved people on both sides of the wall, although he admitted hardly any of the East Germans could speak English. He said: "I find it a bit sad that there is no photo of me hanging on the walls in the Berlin Museum at Check-Point Charlie. "After my appearance I hacked away at pieces of the wall that had the black, red and yellow colours of the German flag on it. I kept the big piece for myself and gave the smaller pieces to colleagues at Baywatch." Hasselhoff said he doesn’t mind that Americans make fun of his popularity in Germany and says he feels it is his second homeland.
What happens when your career is over in Hollywood? It dies and goes to Europe.
He said: "Many Americans joke about my popularity in Germany. But they have no idea how beautiful Europe is and how rich it is in culture and fun and warmth and children.
He has peered into the minds of Americans and determined their contents, yet another example of the widespread belief in clairvoyance among the Hollywood pseudo-elite.
In Germany children have brought me thousands of flowers.
Delusions of Grandeur, anyone? Unlike many Hollywoodists, Hasselhoff at least seems to think that the collapse of Communism was a good thing. |