Fritz Wepper
This is how he feels after the tumor operation
Fritz Wepper (r.) With his brother Elmar at the Bavarian TV Prize 2019 in the Prinzregententheater in Munich.
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Actor Fritz Wepper reports from rehab with a health update. He would like to regain his strength after the tumor operation.
Actor Fritz Wepper (80, “For Heaven’s Sake”) is recovering from the effects of a tumor operation in a rehabilitation clinic on Tegernsee. “I feel good here and am glad that I was able to leave the hospital,” he told the magazine “Bunte”. The tumor disease is currently stable and does not have to be treated for the time being.
He will have to spend Christmas without his family because visits are not allowed in the rehabilitation clinic, but: “If everything goes well, I can go home at the beginning of the year,” he says confidently. “I look forward to every day that I can spend with my family,” he adds. Until then he works on his fitness. “Now, after a long period in rehab, I want to strengthen my heart, lungs and muscles. I want to be as independent and mobile as possible again,” says Wepper.
Susanne Kellermann: “This is a disaster”
At the end of November, his wife Susanne Kellermann (47) vented her grief over the ban on visits: “It is sad that it has come to the point again that sick and old people cannot see their relatives. This is a disaster that can be prevented could have, “said the director of the” Bild “newspaper.
At the beginning of the year he had to undergo a tumor operation, followed by five months in an intensive care unit. In the summer he came to the rehabilitation clinic.
Fritz Wepper and Susanne Keller have been married since 2020, but have been on / off together for much longer. The two have a daughter who was born in 2011. Daughter Sophie Wepper (40) comes from his first marriage (1979-2019) to Angela von Morgen (1942-2019).