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Comedy actor injects humor into German election campaign

August 20, 2009

Hape Kerkeling's fictitious character, Horst Schlämmer, a scruffy print journalist turned Chancellor candidate, is a big hit with Germans, weary of a real-life lackluster election campaign.

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