TV journalist Anna Kraft
Terminally ill sports presenter talks about her private life
Updated on January 7, 2026 – 1:45 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
Almost eleven years ago, sports presenter Anna Kraft fell ill with the incurable nerve disease multiple sclerosis (MS). In an interview she talks about dealing with it.
While football and sport play a big role in the life of Anna Kraft and Wolff-Christoph Fuss’ family, the 40-year-old is “proud that I don’t give MS so much space in our lives.” In 2021 she made her illness, multiple sclerosis, public.
Her partner Fuss explained in “Sport Bild” that after such a long time he had developed a feeling for the right way to deal with things. “On the one hand, I respect everything she does and the fact that her personality is someone who just wants to be very active, and on the other hand, sometimes you have to use your gentle pressure to massage in the concerns that a plan with four appointments in 30 minutes might be too much,” said Fuss in the interview.
Fatigue syndrome – a state of long-lasting and deep exhaustion – is a particularly problematic symptom for the former track and field athlete. “It’s my biggest demon that won’t go away even with 20 liters of coffee. Sometimes I need a longer run-up.”
For Sky and RTL, presenter Anna Kraft and commentator Wolff-Christoph Fuss regularly appear in front of the camera during football broadcasts in Germany and Europe. “But we see working couples more often than other people,” they both claim. The only time they spend together is rather limited on weekends. “We’ll meet at the airport for ten minutes.”
Meanwhile, their two children have “cool grandma time” and also see their parents on television. Because Kraft’s mother tunes in “to see what I’m wearing. Wolff’s mother because she wants to know if he’s arrived safely.”
Her two daughters have also already noticed the disease. Kraft therefore announced that he wanted to write a children’s book about the disease. In 2024, she published a book called “Strength of Strength: My Life with Multiple Sclerosis.”