42 min

A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng Sportspages

    • Sports

In episode one of Sportspages, Simon Clancy talks to Ronald Reng about his international bestseller which won the 2011 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Robert Enke was the former Benfica, Barcelona, Hannover and Germany goalkeeper who hid his depression for many years before stepping in front of a passenger train in a small suburb of Hannover in 2009. Together they dig into Enke’s death and life, the responsibility of writing a book based on someones private diaries, and the burden Reng felt immersing into Enke’s life, or “living with a dead friend” as he describes it. 

In episode one of Sportspages, Simon Clancy talks to Ronald Reng about his international bestseller which won the 2011 William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Robert Enke was the former Benfica, Barcelona, Hannover and Germany goalkeeper who hid his depression for many years before stepping in front of a passenger train in a small suburb of Hannover in 2009. Together they dig into Enke’s death and life, the responsibility of writing a book based on someones private diaries, and the burden Reng felt immersing into Enke’s life, or “living with a dead friend” as he describes it. 

42 min

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