Inge Brings
“AWZ” veteran suffered from breast cancer
Inge Brings has been there since the start of “Alles was zählt” 18 years ago.
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Inge Brings has been on “Alles was zählt” since the very beginning 18 years ago. Most recently, she was absent for a year for sad reasons.
Inge Brings (61) is returning to the set of “Alles was zählt”. Most recently, without explanation, she took almost a year off from her role as housekeeper Renate Scholz, which she has played since the series began 18 years ago. The reason for this was breast cancer, as she now explains in an RTL press release.
“I am grateful every day that I still exist. I look forward to work. And generally to having a normal everyday life again,” she told the broadcaster. She and those in the know about the series deliberately did not communicate the illness to fans in order to give Brings unlimited time to recover. The “AWZ” actress first “concerned herself with getting healthy, because with a diagnosis like that, work is initially secondary.”
Experiences of loss due to cancer
The diagnosis shocked the 61-year-old and those around her – not everyone handled the situation correctly. In addition to battling her health problems, she also had to say goodbye to supposed friends during this difficult time. Some “didn’t get in touch at all or reacted so strangely that I had to keep them at bay,” recalls Inge Brings. During chemotherapy, however, she made new friends who she still meets up with, “but now there’s cake instead of an infusion.”
Thanks to treatment at the breast cancer center, the cancer is now considered defeated. Inge Brings now wants to use her experiences to encourage other sufferers. “The therapies [sind] not always as dramatic as you might expect from films,” she stresses in the statement.
Return to filming
After the difficult time, the actress is now very happy to be able to start working on “Alles was zählt” again. The first new episode with her will be broadcast on August 7th. However, “Mrs. Scholz” does not want to reveal too much about her development yet.
But Inge Brings can strongly identify with her character’s love of figure skating. The sport is “an apt symbol for life in general: how fairly do you treat others? Are you a lone fighter or a team player? How do victories feel, how do defeats feel? Falling down, getting up, carrying on skating.”