Overview
- The 84-year-old fell about half a meter during a soundcheck at Hamburg's Laeiszhalle on Friday.
- She had been scheduled for a Loriot reading with Friedrich von Thun, and that event as well as a planned date in Kiel was canceled.
- Paramedics persuaded her to go to the hospital after she initially resisted transport despite the injury.
- Doctors operated early Sunday in a Hamburg clinic, and her son Simon Verhoeven said she is in good hands.
- All near-term appearances and film promotion, including premieres for Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke due in cinemas on January 29, have been called off with no recovery timeline given.