By Mark Pittelkau
She was the love of his life, only death could separate them now. Folk singer Heino (84) cries for his wife Hannelore. BILD learned: She died a few days ago at the age of 82 in the house they shared in Kitzbühel (Austria).
Heino was in Berlin recording a TV show at the time when he got the sad news. He is devastated.
According to BILD information, Hannelore’s health deteriorated surprisingly quickly a few days ago. Heino therefore stopped filming for the Sat.1 show “Kiwi’s Big Party Night” and rushed to her.
Now what the folk music singer has always feared has happened: the person he loved has left him. A few years ago he said to BILD: “I would like to leave this world before my Hannelore.” Now things have turned out differently.
Half a life for two…
Heino and Hannelore met in 1972 while filming the film “Blue Blooms the Gentian”. Back then, Hannelore was a real princess, at home in the jet set: She was married to the noble Prince Alfred von Auersperg († 55) from 1968 to 1979.
Heino and Hannelore: Together for 46 years, they got married 44 years ago. The couple moved their residence from Bad Münstereifel to Kitzbühel (Austria) a few years ago.
Hannelore, a native Austrian, loved the house with the view of the Wilder Kaiser. She was last treated at the Kitzbühel clinic in August. BECAUSE: Recently she could barely walk properly and was quite limited.
In the 70s she survived a serious car accident. The broken bones she suffered back then began to affect her as she got older. She needed a walker and could no longer accompany her husband to his performances.
Her heart also caused problems. In 2004 she had a serious heart attack. She then received stents in a Bonn clinic, then three bypasses.
Heino at the time: “If she had been brought in half an hour later, she would have died of the heart attack. I thank God that she survived.” Hannelore had to take medication to this day.
“I can’t and don’t want to imagine a life without Hannelore”
In October, Heino told BILD: “When I’m home, I look after Hannelore. And when I’m out and about, employees take care of it. She doesn’t lack anything. We also talk to each other on the phone several times a day. Hannelore is my first call in the morning and my last in the evening.”
The two met for the first time in 1972 while filming the film “Blue Blooms the Gentian”. Heino and Hannelore had been a couple since 1977. They married on April 4, 1979 in Bad Münstereifel. It was her second marriage and his third. And for both of them it was the great love of life.
“I can’t and don’t want to imagine a life without Hannelore,” the folk musician always told BILD when people talked to him about the meaning of this love of life. Now he has to find his way in this new reality.