Overview
- Berger was injured in mid-January during a soundcheck for a Loriot reading in Hamburg, suffering a complicated thigh fracture that required lengthy surgery.
- She spent several days in intensive care, with her son Simon Verhoeven describing the period as very hard and saying he had been deeply worried.
- After discharge from a Hamburg hospital, she was transferred to a rehabilitation clinic in Munich, a move her son said was painful despite her refusal of special treatment.
- Berger expressed gratitude for the many well-wishes and said she was very touched by the responses to her new film.
- The injury kept her from the film’s late-January premiere, and the family hopes to watch it together in a cinema once she is stronger, with reported first-week attendance of about 220,000 viewers in Germany.