Robert Enke

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Robert Enke
Robert Enke 3.JPG
Robert Enke (2008)
Personnel
birthday August 24, 1977
place of birth Jena ,  GDR
date of death November 10, 2009
Place of death Neustadt am Rübenberge ,  Germany
size 187 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1984-1985 BSG Jenapharm Jena
1985-1995 FC Carl Zeiss Jena
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1994-1996 FC Carl Zeiss Jena amateurs 9 (0)
1995-1996 FC Carl Zeiss Jena 3 (0)
1996-1997 Borussia Mönchengladbach amateurs
1996-1999 Borussia Monchengladbach 32 (0)
1999-2002 Benfica Lisbon 77 (0)
2002-2004 FC Barcelona 1 (0)
2003 →  Fenerbahçe Istanbul  (loan) 1 (0)
2004 →  CD Tenerife  (loan) 9 (0)
2004-2009 Hannover 96 164 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1992-1993 Germany U15 4 (0)
1993-1994 Germany U16 8 (0)
1994-1995 Germany U17 4 (0)
1995-1996 Germany U18 9 (0)
1997-1999 Germany U21 15 (0)
1998 Germany Olympia 4 (0)
2000 Germany A2 1 (0)
2004 Team 2006 1 (0)
2007-2009 Germany 8 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Robert Enke (born August 24, 1977 in Jena ; † November 10, 2009 in Neustadt am Rübenberge ) was a German football goalkeeper .

Life

Robert Enke came from a sports-loving family. His father Dirk, a doctor of psychotherapist , was a 400 meter hurdler , his mother played handball . Enke passed his Abitur at the Jena sports high school . At first he planned to study , but then decided on a career in professional football .

Enke was married to Teresa Enke . Her biological daughter Lara died of a congenital heart defect in 2006 at the age of two . In May 2009, the couple adopted a two-month-old girl.

Enke and his wife were committed to animal welfare and lived with numerous pets on a farm. He made himself available for a poster for the organization PETA , which was directed against the processing and use of fur . In particular, he protested against the now banned importation of cat and dog fur from the People's Republic of China . Another campaign had the motto “Animals are not Christmas presents”.

Career

societies

Enke played as a teenager - at times also as a field player - first for Jenapharm Jena , from 1985 for FC Carl Zeiss Jena . In 1995 he was in the squad of the second division and came as a substitute goalkeeper under coach Eberhard Vogel to three missions. In his first game as a professional in November 1995, he was against his future club Hannover 96 between the posts. For the 1996/97 season Enke moved to Borussia Mönchengladbach in the Bundesliga . There he sat on the bench for two years until he became a regular goalkeeper under Friedel Rausch in 1998/99 . He kept this position under his successor Rainer Bonhof . Enke performed consistently well, but could not prevent Borussia from relegating to the 2nd Bundesliga .

In the summer of 1999 Enke moved to Portugal to Benfica Lisbon . Under the German coach Jupp Heynckes , he became a top performer and team captain . Lisbon's traditional club, however, only achieved mediocre results in the following three seasons. Therefore, Enke moved to the Primera División for FC Barcelona in 2002 . Under coach Louis van Gaal , however, there was a career break: Enke was used in a cup game , in two Champions League games and only once in a league game.

A loan deal in the summer of 2003 with the Turkish club Fenerbahçe Istanbul under coach Christoph Daum turned into a disaster. The first game with Enke was lost, whereupon his own fans threw objects at him. He then terminated his contract and was temporarily without a club. Although he was formally still under contract with Barcelona, ​​he was loaned to the Spanish second division in January 2004 . At the CD Tenerife he was able to convince again in terms of sport.

In the summer of 2004, Enke returned to the Bundesliga, he moved to Hannover 96 . Right from the start he was one of the team's top performers. In 2006 and 2009 he was voted Kicker goalkeeper of the year by the Bundesliga players in surveys by the specialist magazine Kicker . From 2007 he was captain of the Hannover 96 team. For the first time in his career he extended a professional contract there (until 2010).

  • Robert Enke warming up

  • Robert Enke during a Bundesliga game in 2009

  • Robert Enke during training with teammates from Hannover 96

National team

From 1997 to 1999 Enke played 15 games for the German U21 national team . In 1999 he was appointed to the senior national team for the first time by coach Erich Ribbeck and traveled to the Confederations Cup in Mexico , where he was not used. After moving abroad in the same year, he lost sight of the national team. It was not until 2006, when he had already played two years for Hannover 96, he was before the 2006 World Cup of Jurgen Klinsmann recalled to the extended squad of the national team. However, he did not take part in the tournament.

After the World Cup, Enke initially returned to the national team and went to international matches as a substitute goalkeeper. In March 2007 he made his international debut in a friendly against Denmark (0-1) under national coach Joachim Loew . In the hierarchy of the national team he was behind Jens Lehmann and tied with Timo Hildebrand the following year . At the EM 2008 he took part behind Lehmann and before René Adler as the official number two in the German goal.

After the European Championships and Lehmann's resignation, Enke was one of the contenders for his successor as a regular goalkeeper. However, he was not explicitly named as the new number one goal of the national team, so that he had to face competition from René Adler, Tim Wiese and Manuel Neuer . He played his first competitive game on September 6, 2008 in the World Cup qualification against Liechtenstein . The qualifying game against Russia in October 2008 he had to cancel due to a hand injury; only at the end of March 2009 did he return to the national team for the second leg against Liechtenstein - now after an injury to Adler. Overall, he guarded the gate in five of eleven national team games in the 2008/09 season. His last international match was the World Cup qualifier against Azerbaijan on August 12, 2009, which was won 2-0 in Baku .

The second legs against Azerbaijan (September 9, 2009) and against Russia and Finland (October 10 and 14, 2009) Enke could not deny. Its failure was justified with a bacterial infection ; In retrospect, however, his father announced that the real reason was Enke's depression . Enke, who had recently made his comeback in the Bundesliga, was not nominated for the friendly matches against Chile and Ivory Coast planned for mid-November 2009 .

As part of the national team, for which he appeared eight times, Enke was also involved as a DFB integration ambassador.

death

In the early evening of November 10, 2009, Enke took at a railway crossing in Lower Saxony Neustadt am Rübenberge - Eilvese near his residence, Kingdom of Heaven , by rail suicidal life. Two days earlier, he had guarded the goal for Hannover 96 on the 12th Bundesliga matchday at 2-2 in front of a home crowd against Hamburger SV . At a press conference it was announced that he had received psychiatric treatment for depression several times since 2003 . In his suicide note, he asked relatives and doctors for forgiveness.

His suicide caused consternation. A mourning service took place in the Marktkirche in Hanover on November 11th. The main address was given by Margot Käßmann , then Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and Hanoverian regional bishop . A memorial ceremony took place on November 15th in the AWD-Arena in Hanover. Martin Kind , Christian Wulff , Theo Zwanziger , Stephan Weil and the Catholic pastor Heinrich Plochg addressed the around 40,000 mourners. Enke's coffin was laid out in the center circle of the stadium. The funeral took place in close family circle.

On the first anniversary of his death in 2010, around 1,800 people met at the Kröpcke in Hanover for a funeral march.

Shortly after Enke's death, on November 20, 2009, professional soccer player Andreas Biermann announced at a press conference that he had attempted suicide and was in inpatient treatment because of depression. The death of the national goalkeeper Enke then moved him to go public. On July 18, 2014, Biermann also died by suicide.

  • Memorial service in the stadium in Hanover

  • In memory of Robert Enke, Hannover Stadium

successes

National team

Honors

Location of Robert-Enke-Strasse
  • 2006: Lower Saxony's athlete of the year
  • 2006, 2009: Kicker goalkeeper of the year
  • 2007: Lower Saxony's footballer of the year
  • 2008/09 : Member of the VDV 11
  • 2011: Fourteen months after Enke's death, the city of Hanover renamed a section of the Arthur-Menge- Ufer to Robert-Enke-Straße . On January 17, 2011, the then Mayor of Hanover, Stephan Weil, unveiled the new street sign. Since then, both the HDI-Arena and the Hannover 96 branch can be found on Robert-Enke-Straße, which runs between Beuermannstraße and the bridge at the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel .

Robert Enke Foundation

The German Football Association , Hannover 96 and the DFL founded the Robert Enke Foundation named after Enke and provided it with a capital of 150,000 euros. The purpose of the foundation is to promote measures and institutions that serve to educate people about depression or children's heart disease and / or to research or treat these diseases. Robert Enke's widow, Teresa Enke , has taken over the chairmanship of the foundation.

Others

The Berlin Maxim-Gorki-Theater dealt with death and life with Depression von Enke in the play Dementia Depression and Revolution . Since this happened without the consent of Robert Enke's widow Teresa, she sued against any further performance of the play , as she had the rights to perform and film.

literature

  • Heiko Rehberg, Carina Peitsch: Robert Enke. The goalkeeper. The star. The boyfriend. Madsack Supplement, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-940308-44-3 .
  • Ronald Reng: Robert Enke. Too short a life. Piper, Zurich / Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05428-7 .
  • Ralf Steckert: Standardized feeling. Robert Enke and Lena Meyer-Landrut in the crisis. In: P. Villa, J. Jäckel, Z. Pfeiffer, N. Sanitter, R. Steckert (Eds.): Banale Fights? Perspectives on Popular Culture and Gender. Springer VS, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-531-18213-1 , pp. 175-193.
  • Teresa Enke , Jan Baßler (responsible), Peter Borchers, Manfred Finger, Ronald Reng (editor), Mirko Dismer, Elke Jörn: November 10, 2009. The year after. A balance sheet of the Robert Enke Foundation, 30 illustrated pages in hard cover, with a CD Annual Review 2010 (From the foundation - November 2010) (with contributions from the broadcasters WDR and Sat.1 , among others ), Ed .: Robert Enke Foundation, Barsinghausen, (undated, 2011?)

Web links

Commons : Robert Enke  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry by Robert Enke at national-football-teams.com .
  2. ↑ a b cf. Robert Enke. In: International Sports Archive. 20/2008 from May 13, 2008 (right), supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 38/2009 (accessed on November 10, 2009 via Munzinger Online )
  3. ↑ The day Enkes Lara (2) died. tz , November 9, 2014, accessed May 9, 2017 .
  4. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Robert Enke - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF . December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ Statistics on the game against Denmark. German Football Association V. (DFB), accessed on November 12, 2009 .
  6. ↑ Enke suffers a broken hand. Spiegel Online , October 9, 2008, accessed November 12, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Enke plays against Liechtenstein. sueddeutsche.de, March 26, 2009, archived from the original on November 26, 2009 ; Retrieved November 14, 2009 .
  8. ↑ Statistics: All games. German Football Association V. (DFB), accessed on November 13, 2009 .
  9. ↑ Goalkeeper Enke is out against Azerbaijan. Spiegel Online, September 7, 2009, accessed November 14, 2009 .
  10. ↑ Bacterial infection: Enke fails. Spiegel Online, September 18, 2009, accessed November 12, 2009 .
  11. ↑ He couldn't stand it any longer. Der Spiegel 47/2009, November 16, 2009, p. 158 , accessed on February 8, 2010 .
  12. ↑ Enke not nominated - coach Bergmann “does not agree”. RP Online November 6, 2009, archived from the original on November 18, 2009 ; Retrieved November 14, 2009 .
  13. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Robert Enke - International Appearances . RSSSF . December 7, 2017. Retrieved December 15, 2017.
  14. ↑ POL-H: man fatally injured at level crossing Neustadt-Eilvese. news aktuell, November 10, 2009, accessed on November 13, 2009 .
  15. ↑ Veronika Hackenbroch, Kerstin Kullmann: Under water . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 2018, p. 100-107 ( online ).
  16. ↑ Stuttgarter Zeitung : A life without a way out ( memento from January 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) from November 12, 2009
  17. ^ Death of Robert Enke. Spiegel Online, November 11, 2009, accessed November 11, 2009 .
  18. ^ "You'll never walk alone". Margot Käßmann ( Memento from March 16, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), EKD homepage, November 12, 2009: In her address, Käßmann said that Robert Enke unfortunately went the last way alone. Nevertheless, the following applies: "You will never be on your own - that is the great promise in life that God gives us".
  19. ^ Memorial service in the Hanover stadium. Emotional farewell to Robert Enke. www.sportschau.de, November 15, 2009, archived from the original on August 21, 2010 ; Retrieved February 7, 2013 .
  20. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Robert Enke
  21. ↑ Felix Harbart: Memory of Enke attracts thousands to the stadium in Hanover. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of November 10, 2010.
  22. ^ Ball des Sports Lower Saxony ( Memento from November 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), October 26, 2009.
  23. ↑ Robert-Enke-Strasse inaugurated
  24. ↑ Purpose of the foundation. Robert Enke Foundation, archived from the original on August 21, 2010 ; Retrieved July 12, 2010 .
  25. ↑ Board of Directors. Robert Enke Foundation, archived from the original ; Retrieved May 10, 2010 .
  26. ↑ Robert Enke's widow defends herself against a Berlin play. Retrieved January 7, 2013 .
  27. ^ Goalkeeper widow Teresa Enke: With the lawyer against the Gorki Theater. Retrieved January 7, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Enke, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soccer goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH August 24, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Jena
DATE OF DEATH November 10, 2009
Place of death Neustadt am Rübenberge