When I Fell From the Sky by Juliane Diller (koepcke) & Ross Benjamin

Author:Juliane Diller (koepcke) & Ross Benjamin [Diller, Juliane & Benjamin, Ross]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B005Y0OH96
Publisher: Titletown Publishing, LLC
Published: 2011-11-01T04:00:00+00:00

I don’t know what people were expecting—whether they thought that I would burst into tears or undergo a powerful emotional eruption. I’ve never been the type for that. On top of that, some survival instinct must have formed a protective shield around me over the years, allowing me to lead a so-called normal life. Today I also think: The shock I undoubtedly suffered during my plunge from a height of ten thousand feet lasted until during the filming. To this day it has not yet completely dissipated. And probably that’s all right. It’s a mechanism that allows us to live with a monstrous experience, to deal with it as if it were a birthmark that belongs to us, a scar, an affliction. Or sometimes even a blessing. Who can decide?

But today, as I look out over the Yarinacocha Lagoon, I sense that the time when I have to keep those memories at a distance is now over. Now the time has come to speak about it. All those years it wasn’t possible. The work with Werner Herzog, which I really enjoyed and for which I am still extraordinarily grateful to him, helped me a great stretch of the way to working through my past. For me, someone who has never gone to a therapist, Herzog’s film work, his empathetic questions and his ability to truly listen, as well as the chance to return with him to the site of terror, were the best therapy. Since then, I have found peace and inner stability. And yet another thirteen years had to pass before it would become possible for me to tell my story more fully than I had done ever before. Werner Herzog’s careful documentation had set the course for that, making it possible for me to write this book today. I’ve put it off for a long time. Today I am ready for it.

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