At Sunday's memorial service, actor and author Hape Kerkeling spoke about his grandfather, Hermann Kerkeling, a survivor of the Holocaust . "He was not a man of many words, but a man of action. A carpenter from Recklinghausen who knew how to get things done," Kerkeling recalled. On the roll‑call square of the former Buchenwald concentration camp on the Ettersberg near Weimar, in the heart of Thuringia , he was speaking "not as a public figure, but as the grandson of a survivor." Hape Kerkeling is widely known in Germany. At 61, he is a comedian, author, television host, and actor. His 2006 book "Ich bin dann mal weg" ("I'm Off Then: Losing and Finding Myself on the Camino de Santiago") recounts his journey along the Camino de Santiago to Santiago de Compostela. It has been translated into English, Spanish, Polish, Japanese and other languages.…