Overview
- He addressed fans in a Facebook video posted in early December after a period of silence.
- He said he had to let his wife go after 62 years together, calling her “my heart, my home, my love.”
- The couple married in 1964 and recently marked their diamond wedding anniversary in August of the previous year.
- He noted the coming Christmas will not be joyful for him, saying Helga will remain a “brightest star” in memory.
- Hill, 85, is known for the 1979 hit “Ruf Teddybär Eins-Vier”; the couple had two sons, and Andreas died in 2021 after lifelong epilepsy.