Overview
- The 80-year-old composer was flown from Spain to Munich and admitted to Harlaching hospital after a severe lung infection, and his family confirmed on Monday that doctors put him into an induced/artificial coma.
- Family members posted a joint Instagram statement, confirmed to dpa, saying Siegel is already able to breathe on his own and that relatives are gathered at his bedside while asking the public for privacy.
- Local reporting from tz says Siegel remains intubated and that clinicians plan to attempt to wake him in about two days, but that operational detail is described as a developing report and has not been widely corroborated.
- Siegel is medically vulnerable because of his age and a history of polyneuropathy and repeated cancer recurrences, and he had recently been living part-time in Spain where he opened a restaurant before his condition worsened.
- Fans and fellow artists have sent public messages of support and the next credible updates are likely to come from the family or dpa; Siegel’s long career — more than 2,000 songs and the 1982 Eurovision-winning hit 'Ein bisschen Frieden' — frames why his condition draws major attention.