Claudia Krüger - That´s How She Rolls

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16/11/2011

 
Claudia Krüger; © Silvia Bins

Name: Claudia Krüger
Age: 43
City: Cologne, Germany
Occupation: Head of Tomatis Institute in Cologne
Handicap: Fortunately I feel really good.

She helps many people to find their own way with soothing music and sounds. However she would like to do much more good for the world. REHACARE.de talked with the music therapist Claudia Krüger about her fear of big dogs and the inimitable silence of Cologne’s City Garden.

REHACARE.de: When did you last laugh heartily and what about?
Claudia Krüger: When a child with Down's syndrome cheerfully announced that he thinks that our tomatoes Institute was "totally cool".

REHACARE.de: What is your favourite place? And why?
Claudia Krüger: On the sea – there I can regenerate the best. Or in the City Garden in Cologne – the atmosphere there is inimitable.

REHACARE.de: The last meal in my life would be…
Claudia Krüger: Lentil soup

REHACARE.de: Which person has influenced you most?
Claudia Krüger: They are many. But a key idea for me was called out by a beggar on the street: remain true to yourself! – I do not know his name.

REHACARE.de: Is there something you should throw away, but won’t?
Claudia Krüger: No. What does not fit into my life any more, is thrown away - even if it takes some time to understand it.

REHACARE.de: If you were to win one million in the lottery, what would you do with the money?
Claudia Krüger: I would buy a large mobile Tomatis-system and I would drive to schools, kindergartens, nursing homes, businesses ... and work on site.

REHACARE.de: Which moment of your life would you like to relive?
Claudia Krüger: It is over. I am looking forward to upcoming moments and I begin with the present day.

 
Claudia Krüger can relax best on the sea because the sound of water is a soothing sound of the nature; © Krüger

REHACARE.de: I would like to be…
Claudia Krüger: I would like to be able to provide the experience of silence and of invigorating music to all school children.

REHACARE.de: What are you fed up about?
Claudia Krüger: About this that soft - successful! - methods are kept small, although they could be good for so many people. And - measured by the expenditures for expensive drugs – for relatively low cost.

REHACARE.de: How can you relax the best?
Claudia Krüger: On the sea or when I can rest and hear well-sung Gregorian songs. Sometimes a coffee with milk in the sunshine or half an hour in Cologne’s City Garden can be enough.

REHACARE.de: I enjoy listening to music by…
Claudia Krüger: Schein, Scheidt, Schütz, Bach, Vivaldi, or performed by Thomas Quasthoff, Peter Schreier, Marta Laurito and children

REHACARE.de: Which questions would you like answered the most?
Claudia Krüger: What are the lottery numbers for Saturday - see above.

REHACARE.de: What are you most afraid of?
Claudia Krüger: Of big dogs and inconsiderate owners.

REHACARE.de: What else would you like to accomplish in life?
Claudia Krüger: Over again the courage to change things I can change, the serenity to accept the things I cannot change and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.