Birgit Kober - 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!

19/10/2011

 
Birgit Kober; © privat

Name: Birgit Kober
Age: 40
City: Munich/Germany
Occupation: Prospective teacher of children with special needs; sportswoman
Handicap: Ataxia (in a wheelchair), epilepsy and hearing impairment

She is a reigning world champion and breaks all records in shot putting and jawelin throwing: First, the German Birgit Kober ended up in the wheelchair after a medical error and later on the winner's podium. To REHACARE.de she talked about her impellent, her cats and London 2012.

REHACARE.de: When did you last laugh heartily and what about?
Birgit Kober: When I was reading a book of Herbert Knebel.

REHACARE.de: What is your favourite place? And why?
Birgit Kober: The sports field, because there I feel like doing my best. Sports are my motor of life. Throwing makes me happy.

REHACARE.de: The last meal in my life would be…
Birgit Kober: Sushi

REHACARE.de: Which person has influenced you most?
Birgit Kober: My deceased mother. And through the past years my coach Joachim Lipske who supported me in matters of sports and my fight against the ataxia.

REHACARE.de: Is there something you should throw away, but won’t?
Birgit Kober: A lot of odds and ends which remind me of many things in such a way that I cannot throw them away.

REHACARE.de: If you were to win one million in the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Birgit Kober: I would buy a flat, travel the world and save the rest of the money.

REHACARE.de: Which moment of your life would you like to relive?
Birgit Kober: There were many happy moments – but it is okay that they are over. However, I would rather go back to the point before physicians made the mistake that brought me to the wheelchair – so I could avert it.

 
World champion Birgit Kober is already preparing for the Paralympics in London 2012; © privat

REHACARE.de: I would like to be…
Birgit Kober: Sailing on the Gorch Fock.

REHACARE.de: What are you fed up about?
Birgit Kober: About people whose aim seems to be making other’s lives miserable.

REHACARE.de: How can you relax the best?
Birgit Kober: Lying on the sofa at home, my cats around me with a good book or film and nice food.

REHACARE.de: I enjoy listening to music by…
Birgit Kober: Herbert Grönemeyer, Christina Stürmer, Josh Groban and a lot of classic music.

REHACARE.de: Which questions would you like answered the most?
Birgit Kober: “Which kind of hindrances or catastrophes will occur during the next years?” So I could find a way to circumvent them.

REHACARE.de: What are you most afraid of?
Birgit Kober: Of the day when my cats will die.

REHACARE.de: What else would you like to accomplish in life?
Birgit Kober: Among other things: winning a gold medal at the Paralympics; finishing my training as a remedial teacher and “leaving memories”.