Rare disease
“Tatort” actress Isolde Barth blind
In an interview, actress Isolde Barth spoke about her rare illness, which leads to blindness.
Isolde Barth (76) opened openly about her rare eye disease. According to this, the actress suffers from the Charles-Bonnet syndrome, which is usually associated with an advanced visual restriction.
After she had to deal with the eye disease green star, Barth could see less and less what the doctors could not explain. “Now you know the diagnosis, but you don’t know what you can do about it,” explains the actress. The disease has probably not been particularly widespread so far and is therefore still largely unexplored.
Isolde Barth hopes for “still suitable roles”
Without her blind tasting, she no longer left the house. With the support of friends and her agent, she still provides herself. “I have to be careful when climbing stairs, especially down,” she says of her everyday life. “It takes time to get used to not being able to see anymore.” When crossing the street there are always friendly passers -by who help her. Barth also reveals that she is already a member of the Bavarian Association of Blind and Visually Impairment, which also shows her that there are “so many brave blind or severely visually impaired people who make their lives wonderfully”.
Isolde Barth, who worked in the 1970s and 1980s, among others with Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945-1982) and was later seen in several “crime scene” films, remains confident and hopes that she can continue to do her job . “Maybe there are still suitable roles for me,” she told the newspaper.
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Source: Stern
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