Driving in old age
NDR presenter Carlo von Tiedemann gives up his driving license at 81
Carlo von Tiedemann no longer wants to get behind the wheel. At the age of 81, he no longer has any business being on the streets, the presenter explains frankly.
A few weeks after his 81st birthday, Carlo von Tiedemann gave up his driving license – voluntarily. “I have no business being on the road anymore, I’m sure of that now. The driver’s license is going back to the office. That’s it for driving!”, he told the . It’s not easy, “but I can handle it.”
Carlo von Tiedemann no longer wants to drive after an accident
According to the report, the decisive factor for the decision was an accident that Carlo von Tiedemann caused last year. The presenter drove into another car without braking and suffered bruised ribs. At that time he began to think about whether he should still take part in traffic. “Now I think this is the best decision,” explains the radio and TV star in the “Bild” interview. His wife Julia is now driving him to the recordings, he continued. The couple has been married since 2012.
In the summer, Carlo von Tiedemann returned to the microphone five months after being absent due to illness and celebrated his comeback on the radio station NDR Schlager. The popular presenter started his career in the 1970s.
In the clinic for weeks because of a serious illness
The 81-year-old had recently been through a difficult time: At the beginning of the year, Carlo von Tiedemann had to go to a clinic due to a bacterial infection in his coronary arteries. In the hospital he also broke a vertebra and caught pneumonia, he explained at the time. According to his own statement, he “just escaped death again.”
After an eight-week hospital stay, von Tiedemann was then transferred to a rehabilitation facility for four weeks before the presenter was sent to short-term inpatient care and was finally able to return home.
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Source: Stern
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