ABSTRACT
In October 2006, German news reported that actress Iris Berben had been injured in a riding accident while shooting on location close to Mount Kilimanjaro in Kenya. The Bild Zeitung, Germany’s most widely read tabloid, provided a detailed description of the accident, while the tabloid’s online edition added the information that Mrs. Berben had gotten away with relatively minor injuries only because the producers did not trust the hospital in Nairobi, but instead fl ew in a team of German physicians. Both reports also offered an illustration, a drawing of the dramatic moment when the actress hit the ground while one foot was still caught in the stirrup (see Figure 13.1).
