Margot Eskens
The “Cindy, oh Cindy” singer suffers from severe dementia
Margot Eskens with the Golden Tuning Fork in 2005.
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Pop singer Margot Eskens suffers from dementia and has lived in a retirement home for years. This has now been confirmed by her brother.
With hits like “Cindy, oh Cindy” or “Himmelblaue Serenade”, Margot Eskens (84) became a celebrated hit star in the 1950s and 1960s. In 1966, she even represented Germany at the Eurovision Song Contest with her song “Die Zeiger der Uhr”, where she was 10th. It has now been announced that Eskens has dementia and lives in a retirement home that specializes in heavy care cases.
Her brother Karl Hermann Eskens (83) told “Bild am Sonntag”: “My sister Margot has been living in a different world among like-minded people for five years because of her severe dementia.” The report goes on to say that she was diagnosed in 2013 and moved into the home two years later.
“She lived her life!”
His sister is organically healthy and she has no pain whatsoever, reports Karl Hermann Eskens, but Margot would have to be taken for a walk in a wheelchair by the nurses because her head no longer provides any impulses to run: “The here and now no longer exists for her . She lived her life! “