There is a word for a child who loses their parents, and one for people whose spouse has died. But there is no word for people whose sibling has died. They often grieve in private. Stefanie Weber was eight when her brother Sascha died. More than two decades later, she is breaking the silence.
Sascha would have turned 40 on 19 June. Instead, a song is being released on that day featuring his laughter from an old VHS recording. "It was incredibly difficult for me to write a song about my grief. To do so, I had to let the pain in. All that came out were tears, " says Sascha's younger sister, Stefanie Weber, as we sit opposite each other on a terrace in the capital on a sunny day. Through the song, she wants to put into words just how much she still misses her brother, even 21 years after his death – and she wants to challenge the societal stigma. Because she was always made to feel that she ought to be feeling better after six months, let alone after 21 years. "My love for my brother runs so deep. It will hurt until I'm six feet under, myself."
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