"I could spare the three centimetres": Ottfried Fischer loses fingers in a wheelchair accident
Created: 2022-11-17 13:44
By: Tanja Kipke
Since the wheelchair accident, Ottfried Fischer has been missing part of his little finger.
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Ottfried Fischer (69) is struggling with Parkinson's and has been in a wheelchair for some time.
An accident cost him his little finger – but he didn't lose his sense of humor.
Passau – The TV star from "Der Bulle von Tölz", Ottfried Fischer, has been fighting Parkinson's disease for years.
In 2008 he went public with it for the first time.
The actor and cabaret artist did not lose his sense of humor as a result, he even mockingly calls his illness "Mr. Parkinson", as he reveals in the BR film "Lebenslinien".
He is now more dependent on a wheelchair than ever.
In an interview with the
Bild newspaper
, he gives an insight into his most recent accidents - despite everything with humor.
In an interview, Ottfried Fischer talks about the wheelchair accident: "Fingers were only hanging on scraps"
One of the topics in the interview is life with a wheelchair.
Fischer describes it as a blessing.
"If you can't walk properly, like me, there's no other way." He is bulky, but he can handle it well.
However, the vehicle also “cost him his little finger”.
He thundered up an alley in Passau and got stuck on a wall.
"Bad luck: the little finger was in between," he tells the
picture
.
"Only hanging by a rag.
It didn't bleed, didn't hurt.”
They then amputated it in the hospital instead of sewing it back on "cumbersomely".
Fischer takes it with humor.
"I could spare the three centimetres!" During the operation he asked for a wheat beer.
The best thing was that there were finger noodles in the clinic in the evening.
"I laughed then."
Cabaret artist Ottfried Fischer does not let tragedy get him down
In the middle of the year, Fischer was injured again.
He tore his thigh tendon when he fell down the stairs, which is why he has hardly been able to leave the apartment since then.
"Now I'm a prisoner of the booth." Fischer lives with his wife alternately in Gauting near Starnberg and in Passau.
Just a few weeks ago he was looking for a new home for his mother.
Just sitting at home shouldn't stop there.
In a rehabilitation center he is already working on getting fit again.
Getting upset about his strokes of fate is out of the question for the 69-year-old.
(tkip)
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