Susanne Hoffmann - 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!

05/10/2011

 
Susanne Hoffmann; © privat

Name: Susanne Hoffmann
Age: 33
City: Bornheim/Germany
Occupation: Mother
Handicap: Single parent with two children, a child with disabilities (deaf - Care Level I)

Susanne Hoffmann is fed up about the legal injustice over disabilities. But she stands her ground and fights like a lioness - not only when concerning her daughter. REHACARE.de talked to the strong woman about the wondrous “Oelsehoelse” and the building of social soup kitchens.

REHACARE.de: When did you last laugh heartily and what about?
Susanne Hoffmann: My daughter called a squirrel "Oelsehoelse" due to her pronounciation!

REHACARE.de: What is your favourite place? And why?
Susanne Hoffmann: In the countryside, on the water, relaxing and breathing out!

REHACARE.de: The last meal in my life would be…
Susanne Hoffmann: Potato cake with bacon and pork or tea sausage with fresh applesauce

REHACARE.de: Which person has influenced you most?
Susanne Hoffmann: My grandpa Mick - he taught me a lot about nature in the garden and its occupants along until I was five years old, and the joy of music and folklore; also growing up with a deaf boy; my children, the Indians and Helen Keller!

REHACARE.de: Is there something you should throw away, but won’t?
Susanne Hoffmann: Yes. The symbol of my oath before the Almighty - the virtues.

REHACARE.de: If you were to win one million in the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Susanne Hoffmann: Long-term support for social institutions, inclusion and equality; build soup kitchens, farm for integrative purposes and to show children where we come from.

REHACARE.de: Which moment of your life would you like to relive?
Susanne Hoffmann: When my daughter began to walk. Action equals reaction!

 
She woulds like to be a lake house - Susanne Hoffmann feels most comfortable in the great outdoors; © panthermedia.net/Elke Krone

REHACARE.de: I would like to be…
Susanne Hoffmann: With my back in warm sand beside the sea or a lake house.

REHACARE.de: What are you fed up about?
Susanne Hoffmann: That there is no legal protection for children with disabilities. There is a lack of social courage; Being misunderstood though using sign language, since only few people know it.

REHACARE.de: How can you relax the best?
Susanne Hoffmann: Silence, clear air, feet in water, trees.

REHACARE.de: I enjoy listening to music by…
Susanne Hoffmann: Shakira (Spanish), Rod Stewart, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, Whitney Houston; Pointe: Tim Bendzko: “Nur noch kurz die Welt retten”

REHACARE.de: Which questions would you like answered the most?
Susanne Hoffmann: The answer is in our hearts. Listen to it!

REHACARE.de: What are you most afraid of?
Susanne Hoffmann: Fear? No! The hope, that my children are well prepared and preserved!

REHACARE.de: What else would you like to accomplish in life?
Susanne Hoffmann: Meet my target (above answers) and “His tasks for me”! To be satisfied, happy and healthy with all my loved ones – to enjoy!