Teresa Enke

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Teresa Enke in the NDR Talk Show (2019)

Teresa Enke (born February 18, 1976 ) is the CEO of the Robert Enke Foundation , a non-profit organization that aims to research and treat depression and heart disease in children. She is the widow of the German national soccer goalkeeper Robert Enke , who died of suicide in November 2009 .

Life

Teresa and Robert Enke met at the sports high school in Jena . They married in 2000. Teresa Enke accompanied her husband to his goalkeeping stations in Mönchengladbach, Lisbon, Barcelona, ​​Istanbul, Tenerife and Hanover.

After Robert Enke had established himself permanently as the goalkeeper of Hannover 96 , the Enkes moved into a farmhouse in Empede near Hannover . You got involved with the animal welfare organization PETA . They had already advocated street dogs at the previous goalkeeper stations in Enkes in southern Europe and took several of these animals into their household, which they continued in Empede.

Enke's first child was born on August 31, 2004. The daughter had to undergo several operations because of a serious heart defect. She died on September 17, 2006 after an ear operation. In May 2009, Teresa Enke and her husband adopted a two-month-old girl.

Robert Enke was absent from Hannover 96 and the national team in autumn 2009 due to an illness that was officially referred to as an unidentifiable infection and was only announced as a depressive episode after his death. Enke returned to team training in October and played his first Bundesliga home game after his return two days before his death. On November 10, 2009, he committed suicide in the urban area of Neustadt am Rübenberge not far from his house.

Immediately after the death of her husband, Teresa Enke turned to the public at a press conference and reported on the circumstances of his illness. For the public clarification of these circumstances she received thanks and high recognition from the club environment, politics, medical circles and the media. In the days and weeks that followed, it was the focus of all mass media. The Berlin soccer player Andreas Biermann told the Berliner Zeitung in November 2010 that, thanks to Teresa Enke's press conference, he became aware of his own illness and had therefore started therapy in good time. Biermann committed suicide in 2014. Enke also offered the footballer Markus Miller her help with his illness.

In January 2010, Teresa Enke founded the Robert Enke Foundation. In December 2015, she wrote an open letter to Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg , who in turn published an open letter to her on the occasion of the birth of his daughter, in which he announced, among other things, that 99% of his assets would be donated to charity.

literature

  • Veronika Hackenbroch, Kerstin Kullmann: Under water . In: Der Spiegel . No. 11 , 2018, p. 100-107 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Teresa Enke - an impressive woman. N 24 , November 12, 2009.
  2. ↑ Dirk Tietenberg: Big Interview: Teresa Enke: "Robert is always there". In: Neue Presse , November 9, 2015.
  3. ↑ Teresa Enke is allowed to keep her adopted daughter Leila. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung , November 2, 2010.
  4. ↑ Teresa Enke is fine today. N 24, July 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ Biermann: Teresa Enke saved my life. In: Berliner Zeitung, November 10, 2010.
  6. ↑ Teresa Enke wants to support Markus Miller. In: Augsburger Allgemeine , September 6, 2011.
  7. ^ "Most valuable in the world": Teresa Enke writes a moving letter to Mark Zuckerberg. In: OK! , December 4, 2015.
  8. ↑ Teresa Enke writes a moving Facebook letter to Mark Zuckerberg. In: Stern , December 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Enke, Teresa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chairwoman of the Robert Enke Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH 18th February 1976