Jochen Busse
Migraine attacks are “self-torture”
Jochen Busse became known with an RTL Friday evening show.
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Jochen Busse spoke about the reasons for his recent blackout on the theater stage and a possible career end.
Jochen Busse, 83, has in an interview with the “Bild” newspaper talked about an incident on the theater stage. At the premiere of the play “White Sneakers” last Thursday in Munich, the actor had a blackout that lasted around 20 minutes. He has been suffering for about ten years “from an insidious disorder that there is nothing to cure,” says Busse, explaining the text failure. This is a painless migraine. “Sometimes it’s gone for a long time, then it comes suddenly,” says the 83-year-old, adding about the symptoms: “It shows up with slight squiggles in front of my eyes, and I’m paralyzed, no longer feeling right.”
Jochen Busse has to “seriously discuss” the future
For the actor, this was “a terrible catastrophe.” During the time of the failure, “I can’t think of the words. I want to say tanks, but I say ladder to heaven. It’s unparalleled self-torture.” Busse is therefore thinking about his professional future. “If it no longer works because the brain doesn’t cooperate, it’s torture,” he emphasizes in the “Bild” interview. Then you have to stop what he’s currently thinking about.” However, Busse “definitely wants to finish the guest performance in Munich, which runs until April 7th.” The Hamburg comedy Winterhuder Fährhaus continues from May to July, after that he had to “discuss the future very seriously.”
Busse made his debut as a theater actor in Munich at the age of 19 and also gained his first experiences as a cabaret artist. He later went on tour with stage programs. From the 1960s onwards, he was seen in film and TV, including in the ZDF series “Murder Commission” and the RTL series “Das Amt”. From 1996 to 2005 he hosted the popular RTL Friday evening show “7 Days, 7 Heads”, in which mainly comedians in a panel reviewed the events of the last week.