Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling In Depth

With grey-blended hair and wearing a white t-shirt and black leather pants with braces, he takes the place at his desk and introduces himself to all participants. Excited people from many different countries are there.

People from Sweden, Holland, Belgium, Germany and as far away as New Zealand and Australia sit together in the newly renovated building, which had previously been a school here in Moborg in Jyllland, Denmark. Most are here just over the weekend to see what this master has to offer.

A local news program is also here to make a small tv story for the news and a full film crew from the United States to film a documentary film. It is his first seminar here at his newly purchased place that houses dormitories, kitchen, dining room, meeting room and on the outside a small stable, a picadero and a larger training track with sand and iron fences.

He explains that he is not really a horseman and if it had been possible he would not have been working with horses at all. He has no horses of his own anymore where he lives on his farm in another part of Denmark.

Klaus, who is German but for many years living in Denmark, lived a long time ago with wild horses in the Spanish Pyrenees. He has since been active for thirty years helping people with often very aggressive and dangerous stallions, who only after a few minutes meeting with Klaus, are totally transformed and do not want to leave his side.

The horse you see here,” he says, pointing to the video on the TV screen. I only had him for a few months. This black stallion was only 1.47, a pony, but it was impossible to return him to the owner. He would have killed her.

“A lot of people come with problems,” he continues. Like this Icelandic horse who kicked the owner. She had fallen off and got 27 nails in her shoulder. Fortunately, she didn’t break her neck. Many are stallions and they are always a challenge. They always ask , “Are you ready? What kind of energy do you give me? Are you weak?” First of all, I let the horse express itself. What I really do is give the soul back to the horse and lead it to its destiny. It’s not training. You can’t train the horse.

Klaus tells us that we have well-born horses but often the stomach stands out but you can still see the ribs. At that time when you really worked with horses and depended on them, the horse was like a Rolls Roys. Very few people could afford them, and it was a full-time job.

-If you’re not rich, you can’t have a horse because you won’t be able to afford to take care of it properly. Klaus says he doesn’t understand how today you have time for more than one horse. He is totally against the modern horse keeping now to have them on free stall for the horses are fighting like hell. He thinks they should be both inside and out but in much larger stalls and less time than is the usual.

He explains that he is not really a horseman and if it had been possible he would not have been working with horses at all. He has no horses of his own anymore where he lives on his farm in another part of Denmark.

Klaus, who is German but for many years living in Denmark, lived a long time ago with wild horses in the Spanish Pyrenees. He has since been active for thirty years helping people with often very aggressive and dangerous stallions, who only after a few minutes meeting with Klaus, are totally transformed and do not want to leave his side.

The horse you see here,” he says, pointing to the video on the TV screen. I only had him for a few months. This black stallion was only 1.47, a pony, but it was impossible to return him to the owner. He would have killed her.

“A lot of people come with problems,” he continues. Like this Icelandic horse who kicked the owner. She had fallen off and got 27 nails in her shoulder. Fortunately, she didn’t break her neck. Many are stallions and they are always a challenge. They always ask , “Are you ready? What kind of energy do you give me? Are you weak?” First of all, I let the horse express itself. What I really do is give the soul back to the horse and lead it to its destiny. It’s not training. You can’t train the horse.

Klaus tells us that we have well-born horses but often the stomach stands out but you can still see the ribs. At that time when you really worked with horses and depended on them, the horse was like a Rolls Roys. Very few people could afford them, and it was a full-time job.

-If you’re not rich, you can’t have a horse because you won’t be able to afford to take care of it properly. Klaus says he doesn’t understand how today you have time for more than one horse. He is totally against the modern horse keeping now to have them on free stall for the horses are fighting like hell. He thinks they should be both inside and out but in much larger stalls and less time than is the usual.

Many have horses in uneven numbers but that’s not good, he says, because they often create friendships two and two. When you take out a horse, it creates a lot of stress. You should only have them in small groups like four.

Wild horses live in small family groups. Movies like Cloud have nothing to do with reality, he explains. In reality, they do nothing, they just stand and don’t want to move that much. The quality of the hooves is terrible. The grass that horses eat like wild is completely different from what we offer and they need cereals like oats and straw for digestion. Sugar is poison, he stresses.

The Chestnut who didn´t let himself be groomed

Eventually we move outdoors to the small picadero which is a square with iron fence of about 11 x 11 meters. We’re going to see Klaus working with a horse. It is a perfectly normal horse, a large chestnut gelding of 13 years and the owner Lulu has trouble grooming the horse that bites and kicks.

The owner, an older woman, takes in the horse that looks stressed and she has some trouble leading it. She’ll let it loose. Immediately it starts to run around. Klaus stands on the outside and explains the situation to the participants.

“The horse is in a completely different world than the woman and the fact that she survives is just a coincidence,” he begins. A big horse like this with a weight of 600 kilos, a wrong movement… one wrong movement… the horse has nothing to do with the woman. No! She doesn’t exist. We have two creatures that exist in two completely different worlds.