“Everything will be fine” Heinz Hoenig reports for the first time via video
02.08.2024, 16:07 Listen to article
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Heinz Hoenig has been in hospital for months, waiting for a life-saving operation. Now the actor is personally contacting his fans for the first time via video message. He is still in hospital, but everything will be “repaired,” he assures them.
Heinz Hoenig and his family have had nerve-wracking weeks. The actor, who has been in hospital since April awaiting a life-saving operation on his aorta, had to be resuscitated in mid-July, as his wife Annika Kärsten-Hoenig revealed just a few days ago. Now the 72-year-old is personally contacting his supporters for the first time since his admission via video message.
“Hello fans, dear colleagues,” Hoenig greets from his sickbed. The ex-boxer has become noticeably thinner and paler, and speaking and breathing are visibly difficult for him. “I would just like to sincerely thank you for helping me so much.”
Although he is still in the hospital and everything is being “repaired”, he obviously knows what he has to concentrate on – on his family, who recently moved from Blankenburg in the Harz to Berlin to be closer to him: “I have a good wife who cares, I still have two small children and I want to go back to them. Everything will be fine, that’s all I want to say. Thank you, thank you.”
Still too weak for the next operation
Heinz Hoenig was hospitalized in April for a bacterial infection, underwent operations on his heart and esophagus, and was subsequently placed in an artificial coma. The operation on his aorta will have to wait until he is back to full strength. In mid-July, his wife Annika experienced a moment of shock when she drove to the Charité in the morning and discovered a defibrillator pad on Heinz’s chest. “The doctors then told me that they had to resuscitate my husband during the night,” she recently told “Bunte”.
Nevertheless, she was also able to report positive news: her husband is “no longer being ventilated orally, but can breathe independently through the tracheostomy,” and he can also walk a few meters with a walker. The doctors have now indicated that he will be able to spend the time before the upcoming operation at home, she continued. With his video message, the actor himself is now showing that, despite all the hardships, he is positive and has not given up hope. Hopefully, this will bring him closer to his dream of finally being with his family again.
