Almost daily, Teresa Enke comes over to the street that bears the name of her husband. The Robert-Enke-Strasse in Hannover is located on the way to school her daughter Leila. It leads directly to the HDI-Arena, the former lower Saxony stadium.
In the stadium, care was taken to Teresa Enke man as the Goalie of the football League, Hannover 96 by the Fans, celebrated and revered. And there almost 40’000 people attended an autumn Sunday ten years ago, in a funeral farewell to him. Five days earlier, Robert Enke had on 10. November 2009 his life at a railway crossing in Eilvese at the age of 32 put an end to.
Teresa Enke is a forecourt to the stadium. Two years ago, she returned to Hannover, after having lived for six years in Cologne. “The first time was hard, because the memories were very painful and I have such places, therefore, avoided,” says the 43-Year-old in an Interview with the German press Agency. “But man is a creature of habit, and at some point one of the no longer Bouncing around like that.”
“We thought also, with love”
Like a shock wave, the message of Robert recorded Enke’s suicide ten years ago, almost an entire Nation. His death has shocked and upset people. Two days earlier he had stood at 2:2 Hannover 96 against Hamburger SV in the gate.
The pressing question as to the Why of his suicide Teresa Enke answered in less than 24 hours after the tragedy. In a press conference, she reported on the depression of her husband, his anguish, his Fears of discovery, prior to the failure. She speaks of his fear that because of his illness, the nine-month-old adopted daughter Leila could be taken away. “We thought also, with love that goes. But man creates it, but not always,” she says in front of the cameras – and stirred the people.
“He’s not a miserable person”
was to take part In a devotional a day after Enke’s death, in front of the market Church in Hannover over 3500 people. Then 35’000 Mourners in a March through Hannover. The former DFB President Theo Zwanziger holds a much acclaimed speech. His warning is clear: “ soccer is not everything.”
Robert Enke is transfigured to be a hero. There is a persistent image of the man, the merciless System professional, holds to this day football is based on. Against this myth, Teresa Enke sets from the beginning, a counter-proposal. It was not the football, “has broken it,” she says and emphasizes, even today: “He was not a unhappy person. He had his illness, his depressive phases. And maybe he was not an extrovert. But he was a funny guy and someone who could have a lot of Fun.”
your attitude is Enke Teresa then, as now, a woman whose husband dies tragically, and have suffered three years earlier with the death of her two-year-old daughter Lara on a first stroke of fate admired. “I was put on a Pedestal, I would not have allocated me even,” she says, looking back. It had not even been so strong.
Sometime after the funeral and the media storm, the roaring silence is coming for Teresa Enke. “You were a family and once alone. I’ve gone to the grave, and there are two names on it were,” she says. Before moving two years later to Cologne, she takes with her daughter a break. In Cologne, she begins, slowly, to the buttons.
Virtual Reality experience is designed to help with reconnaissance
An important step in your personal grief work is the Foundation of the Robert-Enke-Foundation, 2010. The carrier of the DFB, the German football League and Hannover 96. She is the Executive chef and is the face of the Foundation. She gives Interviews, is trying to raise awareness of the long as a people’s disease is classified Depression. They want the abolishment of all taboos.
In the run-up to the tenth anniversary of the death of you and the Foundation do more on the disease. Together with the Federal Minister of health, Jens Spahn Teresa Enke presents a project in the depression for the Non-Diseased, at least implicitly, is palpable: a Virtual Reality experience using VR glasses, headphones and a lead vest.
The football I believe not
Teresa Enke changed that after the death of her husband, of the public dealing with the disease in General has changed. “This is a big and, now, public issue has become.” The football has not changed and will not change, she acknowledges. “But There are now networks. There are 70 sports psychiatrist in the whole of Germany. If an athlete is ill, then there are everywhere starting points.”
Valentin Markser, who treated Robert Enke psychotherapist and at the press conference after his death, in addition to Teresa Enke sass, is more sceptical of the Situation in professional sports is concerned in General. “The System is unfortunately still at the level of 2009,” said the former Handball goalkeeper the editorial network Germany a few weeks ago. “Overall, there is a big miss understanding: health is not the goal of competitive sports – it requires you easily throughout the career.” No one wanted a loser.
VfL Wolfsburg’s Manager Jörg Schmadtke, ten years ago, sports Director at Hannover 96, looks in General, no Changes in Pro-football. “Not the media, not the people that are in the Public domain. The pressure is still large,” said the 55-Year-old in an Interview with the “Welt am Sonntag”. “I can’t notice any big changes in the football business. But also not in the society itself.”
Bayern chief Hoeness does not believe that Lessons have been learned for each other from the tragedy of Robert Enke: “I think that we are right now in our society, and this is true not only for football, relatively disrespectful in many areas to deal with each other.”
With “Pure”
For Teresa Enke, the death of her husband and their first daughter, have become the themes of your life. On her right forearm she has a great the name Robbi, on the upper arm with the name Lara tattooing.
Still, she remains not trapped in the past. You will be with the “in the clear”. “I’m fine,” she reveals. “I think back now with gratitude and joy, Lara, Robbi, and at the common time.” There is, of course, moments where she was sad. “But if someone had told me ten years ago that I can be happy – then I wouldn’t have believed it.” (dpa)
Created: 10.11.2019, 14:18 PM
