Heinz Hoenig’s health suddenly deteriorated over the weekend. His wife gave an update in a TV interview.
Worrying news from Heinz Hoenig (72): The actor, who has been in a Berlin hospital for 13 weeks, is getting worse. His wife Annika Kärsten-Hoenig (39) said this on July 21 in the show “stern TV am Sonntag”. She actually wanted to be a guest in the studio, but had to cancel due to her suddenly deteriorating health. Instead, she was only connected via video.
“Lost a lot of muscle mass”
She spends six hours a day at his bedside. During this time, she helps the actor to mobilize his body again. “That’s very important, he’s lost a lot of muscle mass from lying down for so long. We’re trying to build that back up now.” The star of “Das Boot” has been in the clinic since April 30th, where a stent was put in his heart in an emergency operation. A second, life-saving operation to replace the aorta can only take place when Hoenig is stable enough for it.
“Breathing is the focus at the moment. He has to be weaned off the artificial respiration, which is not easy,” said the 39-year-old, who nevertheless does not give up hope for improvement. It is a constant “up and down,” but “he fights through it every day.” She is impressed by how Hoenig manages it all: “Well, to be honest, what this man – my husband – does every day, I take all my hats off to him. And Heinz is the strongest man on the planet, next to my 81-year-old grandmother. I am simply proud to be his wife.”
“Then something comes along that throws you backwards”
It is not an easy time for her either. In order to be close to her husband, Kärsten-Hoenig temporarily moved from Blankenburg to a small apartment in Berlin with her sons (3 and 1) and her best friend. For weeks she has been taking turns looking after her sick husband and their two small children. “The last thing I think about is Heinz and the first thing I think about in the morning is always Heinz,” she reported. The constant worry leaves its mark. Physically she is fine, but: “Mentally, sometimes it’s this way, sometimes it’s that way. It’s difficult.” The constant ups and downs of emotions are particularly difficult to deal with: “When you have a few days where you have the impression that things are moving forward. Then something comes along that sets you back. You have to swallow that mentally and come to terms with it again. But it is “important that it doesn’t set us back mentally.”
Source: Stern
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