The actor Fritz Wepper (82) gives the all-clear after his blood poisoning. In a conversation with the “Bild” newspaper from the hospital, he said: “I’m doing well under the circumstances. I had sepsis again. But I’ve survived the worst.” The illness “seemed to come out of nowhere” and he “felt very good” beforehand. The death of his brother Elmar Wepper (1944-2023) at the end of October was of course a shock for him: “This absolute finality is the worst. For as long as I can remember, Elmar has always been there and a part of my life.”
He now has to stay in the clinic for some time, but he can go home for a few hours on Christmas Eve, says Wepper. He spent December 24th with his daughter Sophie (42) and the daughters and grandchildren of his first wife Angela (1942-2019), who died in 2019.
On Christmas Day he will be with his current wife Susanne Kellermann (49) and his younger daughter Filippa (12), who will come to see him in the hospital. “It gives me strength when my loved ones visit me,” says Wepper. No medicine can replace this boost of energy, but he is still looking forward to the festival.
His wife also spoke to the newspaper and described how difficult the loss of her brother was for her husband. Her husband is actually a master at accepting things as they are and making the best of them. But now he has reached his limits: “It has already scarred him. I would have liked to have comforted him more.”
Fritz Wepper’s health was “very serious at first”: “I don’t know how many times I’ve said goodbye to Fritz in the past few years. Hoping and fearing also takes a lot of energy.” She is always extremely tense, restless, and cannot sleep: “When the all-clear comes, the tension drops and you are so exhausted that you could just fall asleep in a second.” You can’t prepare for that either, it hits you “full side” every time.
Fritz Wepper’s medical records have been full to the brim for years. At the beginning of 2021 it was announced that the actor had skin cancer that had already metastasized. In the spring, a tumor in his abdomen was surgically removed. After a corona infection, he then had to spend around 15 months in the hospital.
