Senta Berger on living with grief "Sometimes I start to cry"
Senta Berger and Michael Verhoeven were a couple for over 60 years. The director died in April 2024. Now the actress talks about her great love and how she is dealing with her grief.
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- Actress Senta Berger and filmmaker Michael Verhoeven were a couple for 62 years - and married for 58 of them. The director died on April 22, 2024.
- The Austrian actress has still not gotten over the death of her great love.
- "Music is something that comforts. And encourages. I need that right now," says Berger.
"My husband was a people catcher. He could break open hearts that were already frozen."
Actress Senta Berger spoke about the death of the love of her life, director Michael Verhoeven, at the salon evening "The Power of Music" in Munich's Künstlerhaus.
The couple went through life together for 62 years. In April last year, the German filmmaker and producer died at the age of 85 after a short, serious illness.
Senta Berger is comforted by music
A loss that still troubles the widow to this day. In her speech, Senta Berger spoke with tears in her eyes, according to Bild.
At home, she played classical music at full volume all day. "Music is something that comforts. And encourages. I need that right now," says the Vienna native. She still feels music physically.
She continues: "I give myself over to it completely and let it have its effect. Sometimes I start to cry." Strauss, Mahler, Bruckner and Dvořák are her gods, says the actress.
The 84-year-old is aware that the pain of her great loss will probably not go away for the rest of her life.
"Why should I get over the loss of my husband? The pain is part of my life," she revealed in "Spiegel für die Frau" last January.
"A long-term relationship is not a matter of course"
Senta Berger and Michael Verhoeven have a whole life behind them. "We got to know each other very early on," says the actress.
She continues: "We developed together. We discovered each other more and more. And knew more and more that we belonged together. And we were able to stay together."
Over the years, the actress has always been aware that a long-term relationship cannot be taken for granted.
In September 2023, Senta Berger said in an interview with blue News: "I'm grateful every day that we've grown old together."
