Angelika Gemkow - That´s How She Rolls

What makes other people actually happy in life? If you ever wondered, you have come to the right place. In regular intervals REHACARE.de asks a varity of people always the same questions. What results from that? Read for yourself!

08/12/2010

 
Angelika Gemkow; © private

Name: Angelika Gemkow
Age: 60
City: Bielefeld, Germany
Occupation: Federal State Commissioner for the Disabled in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) until May 2010
Handicap: Intervertebral discs and knee surgery

REHACARE.de talked to the politician Angelika Gemkow about happiness, her desires and Paris Hilton.


REHACARE.de: What makes you get up in the morning?
Angelika Gemkow: Because I am satisfied and thankful. I am looking forward to the new day.

REHACARE.de: What is your favorite place and why?
Angelika Gemkow: My Nordic Walking tour in a fragrant colourful autumn forest.

REHACARE.de: Who or what impresses you?
Angelika Gemkow: People who do and tackle something. This includes many people with disabilities, who can be a role model for many unsatisfied people because of their contagious happiness, their courage and their will to achieve something.

REHACARE.de: What is your most valuable possession?
Angelika Gemkow: My harmonic family life with my husband and my two children.

REHACARE.de: What are you fed up with?
Angelika Gemkow: With a working week of 60 to 70 hours and with people who only nag around.

REHACARE.de: What makes you relax the most?
Angelika Gemkow: Walking and swimming.

REHACARE.de: What makes you happy?
Angelika Gemkow: When I get along well with people and we implement aims. My new signet „NRW without barriers“ belongs to this, for example.

REHACARE.de: Is there something you should throw away, but won’t?
Angelika Gemkow: Trousers that have become too tight.

 
Nordic Walking keeps your fit and helps to calm down and relax; © Falk Bartels / panthermedia.net

REHACARE.de: Name three things that make for a fulfilled life!
Angelika Gemkow: Family and friends, meaningful tasks, enjoyment of life.

REHACARE.de: When was the last time you felt blown away by something?
Angelika Gemkow: After the latest state election in NRW, I had to hand off my great charge as the Federal State Commissioner for the Disabled. After that I received a lot of personal thank-you letters and emails.

REHACARE.de: What questions would you like to know the answer to?
Angelika Gemkow: I want a NRW without barriers. When will the responsible players do more for this aim than they have been doing until now?

REHACARE.de: When was the last time you felt like hiding from something?
Angelika Gemkow: Every time when I hear or read superficial and needless stuff from meaningless clotheshorses like Paris Hilton in the media.

REHACARE.de: What makes a person rich?
Angelika Gemkow: To take responsibility for oneself and others, to live after Christian values and to adhere to ones basic beliefs.

REHACARE.de: What is your philosophy of life?
Angelika Gemkow: Human beings are more important than material things.

REHACARE.de: Who else should we be asking these questions of?
Angelika Gemkow: Chancellor Angela Merkel.