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PerryPeabody
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 9:54 am |
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A bit of news about the other children
Josef Fritzl's daughter Kerstin woke to Robbie Williams
By Nick Allen
telegraph.co.uk
Last Updated: 11:17AM BST 12/06/2008
The teenage daughter of Josef Fritzl, who was kept in a cellar her whole life, woke from a coma after doctors played her Robbie Williams songs.
Kerstin Fritzl, 19, was "almost dancing" as medics played the star's albums and withdrew drugs that were keeping her unconscious.
After she woke up in an Austrian clinic Kerstin would stay up late listening to the former Take That singer and told doctors she wants to see him in concert.
Chief doctor Albert Reiter said: "She still had the breathing tubes inside her but she was sitting up in bed waving her arms and dancing in bed.
"One night I had to order her to finally go to sleep at 3am as she kept listening to Robbie Williams CDs. She wants very much to go to a Robbie Williams concert."
Before she woke from her coma the songs, including the hit Angels, were played to Kerstin through headphones for three days.
She is thought to have listened to them during her long imprisonment under her father's house in the Austrian town of Amstetten.
Dr Reiter said: "I knew when I saw her singing and dancing in bed to Robbie Williams that she was ready to be taken off the machine which was helping her breathe.
"We smiled at her and she opened her eyes and smiled back at us. I said `Hello Kirsten' and she said `Hello' back.
"Soon she was saying hello to all the doctors on their morning rounds. We're delighted with her progress."
Kerstin has been reunited with her mother Elisabeth, 42, who is Fritzl's daughter by his wife Rosemarie, 68.
Elisabeth was kept as a sex slave in the cellar for 24 years.
As well as Kerstin two sons she had by Fritzl - Stefan, 18 and Felix, five - were also kept in the cramped cellar.
Kerstin, who had never seen sunlight, became ill and Fritzl eventually took her to hospital where doctors induced a coma to allow her body to recover.
Berthold Kepplinger, director of the clinic in Mauer near Amstetten, said: "For all of us Kerstin's surprising recovery is a great relief.
"We are going to give her a special diet with extra vitamins and an exercise regime to help her."
Three other children Fritzl fathered by Elisabeth - Lisa, 15, Monika, 14, and Alexander, 12 - were allowed to to live above ground with him and Rosemarie.
Dr Kepplinger said: "The tempo of the lives of the children who lived above ground is very different to those who were confined to the cellar.
"To them the simple movement of a cloud in the sky can be quite exciting. The others are more active and are being taught by teachers at the clinic.
"Those who lived below ground are discovering the world for the first time."
Family lawyer Cristoph Herbst said: "They all love to pay together and get along really well.
"They want to make a life together and now we are looking for a place they can start again. To be together is something very precious indeed.""
The family have been given a spacial area within the clinic where they are expected to stay for several months.
Dr Reiter said: "It was an extraordinary moment when Kerstin, holding my arm, and I were able to walk through the door into a new home, crossing the threshold into a new life.
"The entire family is happy that they are all together for the first time."
Felix is enjoying playing outside but has to wear sunglasses to protect his eyes from sunlight.
He also loves climbing stairs, having not been able to in the cellar.
But his brother Stefan is having more trouble adapting to the outside world.
A source at the clinic said: "Stefan is thin as a rake and very pale. For the first few weeks after he came out he only moved very slowly but his motor functions are getting better."
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| Myra Manes
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:26 am |
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Thank you so much again, perry! This truly is an absolute wonderful report!  I hope stephan continues to improve also ....
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| Hannie
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 10:39 am |
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Thanks Perry! This gives me goosebumps...
I hope Robbie Williams himself will read this and maybe he can visit her in the near future,
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| PerryPeabody
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:34 am |
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| Hannie wrote: | Thanks Perry! This gives me goosebumps...
I hope Robbie Williams himself will read this and maybe he can visit her in the near future, |
Me, too.
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| SavannahStar
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 11:52 am |
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Who is Robbie Williams anyway? 
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| PerryPeabody
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:15 pm |
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| SavannahStar wrote: | | Who is Robbie Williams anyway? |
I'd never heard of him either.
http://www.robbiewilliams.com/
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| PerryPeabody
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:30 pm |
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From another article:
"Elisabeth is guarded like the crown jewels," she said. "She often visited Kerstin in hospital. Since Kerstin woke up, Elisabeth appears to be relaxed, almost merry."
The fear of the paparazzi remains, although the Fritzls are taking their walks in the hospital grounds one at a time and accompanied by three bodyguards in plain clothes.
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| Myra Manes
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Thu Jun 12, 2008 12:34 pm |
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| Hannie wrote: | Thanks Perry! This gives me goosebumps...
I hope Robbie Williams himself will read this and maybe he can visit her in the near future, |
That would be great and wouldn't surprise me!
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