'Klaus Kinski sexually abused daughter for 14 years'

[DaveCinzano]

he eldest daughter of the German actor Klaus Kinski has claimed she was sexually abused him when she was a child.

In an interview, Pola Kinski said her father, best known as the lead actor in films by the director Werner Herzog, repeatedly raped her over a 14-year period.

"He [Klaus Kinski] started touching me and kissing me with an open mouth when I was quite small, around five or six years old," she told Stern magazine in an interview published on Thursday, ahead of the publication of her autobiography in Germany next week.

Twenty years after his death the self-taught actor who became something of a German legend, is unable to answer the claims. But his daughter said that having spent years living in fear that no one would believe her she had finally decided to break her silence.
Pola Kinski, 60, lives in Germany and is also an actor. She said she suffered years of physical and verbal abuse at the hands of her father whose behaviour she said was often threatening.

"As a child I always had to keep my mouth shut because he was always threatening me. And I was dependent on him, on his affection."

She added that her father had told her his behaviour was quite natural. "[He said] all over the world fathers do the same thing with their daughters." [...]

Cripes.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jan/10/klaus-kinski-rape-claims-daughter

 

[DexterTCN]

Surely not?

 

[Yetman]

What? No! Fucking hell

 

[Reno]

Discusson here already:

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/werner-herzog-appriciation-thread.204849/

No great surprise to anyone who knows what a prime cunt he was in his private life.

 

[belboid]

Wasn't this already known about? Or was it just widely rumoured, I'm sure I'd heard the tales years ago.

 

[billy_bob]

Wasn't this already known about? Or was it just widely rumoured, I'm sure I'd heard the tales years ago.

Yes it's one of those widely known secrets. IIRC Nastassia Kinski hasn't exactly been shy of calling him a weirdo in the past.

 

[danny la rouge]

Wasn't this already known about? Or was it just widely rumoured, I'm sure I'd heard the tales years ago.

yup.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Yes it's one of those widely known secrets. IIRC Nastassia Kinski hasn't exactly been shy of calling him a weirdo in the past.

Heard speculation back in the '80s that it was one of the reasons Nastassja was easy prey for Polanski, but the source (an entertainment journo) was a bit dubious credibility-wise, so I wasn't sure whether he was just tying Kinski and Polanski together in order to conflate their predelictions with their output.

 

[Reno]

Not that Nastassja Kinski ever saw herself as prey of Polanski, who she is still good friends with. She also never made any allegations against her father who she didn't see for much of her childhood, though she has spoken out in support of Pola Kinski.

 

[billy_bob]

She also never made any allegations against her father who she did see much of for much of her childhood, though she has spoken out in support of Pola Kinski.

Fair enough - I should perhaps have been less ambiguous on that point in the circumstances.