About incredible love that carries through time

Created: 09/22/2022, 16:04

By: Joerg Domke

Susanne Ospelkaus from Zorneding deals with the topic of dementia in her new novel "Die Gewand Nadel" on the basis of her own professional experiences.

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Susanne Ospelkaus summarized her own professional experiences as an employee in geriatric care in a novel.

It will be officially presented at the end of October.

Zorneding/district

– Susanne Ospelkaus has a text by her author colleague Uli Zeller with her when she visits the editorial office in Ebersberg.

The pastor from Singen am Bodensee, with whom she has exchanged views on many occasions, works with people suffering from dementia and publishes for relatives and nursing staff on the subject of dementia.

The Zornedingen author also recently dealt with the topic of dementia in a literary way in the broadest sense, but more in the form of fiction.

Her current novel is called "The Cloth Needle" and was only released at the beginning of September (ISBN/EAN: 9783765536649).

On Saturday, October 22nd, she will officially present the novel with music, stories and Mediterranean cuisine from 7.30 p.m. in the Limone restaurant in Pöring, Burgstraße 21.

She says it's about memories of an incredible love that carries through time.

And that's what the story is about: A robe pin reminds Josefine of the love of her life: Harun, the Berber, gave it to her.

During World War II she served as a young Red Cross nurse on the African front in Libya.

Today she is 94 years old, confused, scared and hardly remembers her past.

Until Yakob shows up, a young orderly with Libyan roots.

When he discovers an old Arabic dialect that he knows from his childhood in the incomprehensible sounds that Josefine makes, he becomes curious...

The robe pin provides memories

Susanne Ospelkaus grew up in Frankfurt (Oder) and even as a child she liked to make up stories, as she says.

She became an occupational therapist in paediatrics and acted in the world of children with all their fantasies and joys, big and small sorrows.

In order not only to think up stories, but also to tell them well, she also completed a distance learning course.

Since then, the Zorneding native has worked as an author for publishers and magazines.

The 45-year-old also worked in geriatrics, but that was a long time ago.

There, as a specialist in a retirement home near Munich, she got to know several of these former BRK sisters, such as the fictitious Josefine, as residents.

Older women who cared for other people in need throughout their lives, but never got the chance to mentally process their sometimes traumatic professional experiences in old age.

Some of them became demented.

By the way: Susanne Ospelkaus wrote a previous novel.

"My Journey Through the Land of Sorrows" is an autobiographical story in which she came to terms with the loss of her first husband 15 years ago.

She now lives with her second husband and their two sons in the municipality of Zorneding.

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