The cinema rebel and resident of Munich, who became known with the milieu portrait “Rocker”, turned once morest conservative “state cinema” all his life.
It was above all the TV film “Rocker” that Klaus Lemke made a name for himself with: the unbridled portrait of a disreputable to feared Hamburg subculture, whose members today would probably be described as “bikers”, seemed no less wild than its leather-jacketed protagonists . The public success also stood out thanks to its authenticity: Lemke cast people from the scene, gave a damn regarding any screenplay morality and created a genre piece that was saturated with local color. Also linguistically: Some suspect that the popularization of the casual form of address “Digger” goes back to “Rocker”. Regarding the film costume, the director later said: “They ask, what do I get to wear for the scene? And I say: why, are you naked?”