Devid Striesow
“Like in a badly shot science fiction film”
Devid Striesow at the premiere of the movie “NahUSS” in Hamburg in July.
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Even 20 years later, actor Devid Striesow and other artists still know exactly how they found out about the terrorist attacks.
Twenty years ago the news of the terrorist attacks in New York City, in which 3,000 people lost their lives, spread rapidly around the world. Anyone who experienced it back then usually remembers the horrific images of the collapsing twin towers of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 in Lower Manhattan.
“Like in a badly shot science fiction film”
Actor Devid Striesow (47, “Forever Parents”, “Close Shot”) tells spot on news how he found out about it. “I was out and about when someone called me who had graduated from high school in New York and is closely connected to the city – I had never been there myself. He was excited to report what had happened. Then I also saw the events piece for And was completely paralyzed by the images I saw, “he says, adding:” It all looked so unreal, like in a badly shot science fiction film, so that for a moment I couldn’t believe that it really happened. It took me a long time to understand. “
All-rounder Annabelle Mandeng (50, “Detours are also ways: from being black and other adventures”, “Berlin Alexanderplatz”) got a call at the time. A friend told her to turn on the TV, the Twin Towers would be attacked. “That’s how I saw them collapse live. Terrible,” she remembers the terrible moment.
“This day has become traumatized”
Musician Axel Stosberg (54) from the award-winning band Santiano (since 2011, “Mit den Gezeiten”) also remembers the fateful day: “I was preparing for my first role in the Ohnsorg Theater in Hamburg in a fitness studio in Flensburg when I looked at one of the televisions while checking out and saw the impact in the first tower. I was paralyzed, went home and could not take my eyes off the television and these terrible pictures for the rest of the day, “he told the news agency . “This attack has had a lasting impact on our entire worldview and continues to do so today,” Stosberg continued.
And musician colleague Axel “Aki” Bosse (41, “Kraniche”) describes the trauma as follows: “I lived in a shared apartment at the time and the television was on. Then came the attack and with it the shock. I have friends in New York who I couldn’t reach it by phone. It’s just terrible. This day has become so traumatized. You just don’t forget that, “said the singer.