32-year-old Martina Roth from Löffingen is the winner of a literary competition. Your contribution was one of more than 750 submissions from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Martina Roth’s joy will certainly last for a long time: The 32-year-old from Löffinger is the winner of the twelfth literary competition of the association “Die Wortfinder”, which promotes literature and creative writing by special people and people in special situations. More than 750 authors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland contributed around 1,250 contributions.
Martina Roth is the only prize winner from the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district whose contribution to the given topic “Emotional rollercoaster & thought carousel – about feeling and thinking” was published in a literary wall calendar for 2024.
She was made aware of the competition by Annette Aly. The award winner is in constant contact with the integration consultant at the integration specialist service of Neue Caritas in Freiburg, whose funding focus is on intellectual development. Since attending the special school in Titisee-Neustadt and then successfully completing her training as a kitchen assistant at the Himmelreich Inclusion Academy, she has received support from her once a month in all situations.
The meetings are important to her because she also learns a lot about her rights and obligations as an employee. She has been working as a kitchen assistant at the Kurhaus in Hinterzarten for several years. She really enjoys the work. “Hectic in the kitchen is not a problem for me,” she says. She won’t let herself be disturbed. When asked about her favorite dish, she smiles. Actually she doesn’t have any, she likes everything.
Monday and Tuesday are rest days, so she gets her own apartment in shape or visits the “Club Orange” in the outdoor living group of the Lebensheimat house in Löffingen. People with and without disabilities aged 16 and over regularly meet there for topic-related activities, games and film evenings. Sometimes excursions are also organized. The fact that she can live independently in her apartment in her parents’ house after the death of her parents makes her proud. Because of her reading, writing and arithmetic deficits, she only needs support from her supervisor, Gotti Elisabeth Kuttruff, when shopping or banking. Even if, for example, rail replacement services are suddenly announced instead of trains, Elisabeth Kuttruff travels along the route.
She always looks forward to the daily phone call with her Gotti and when she announces – like on Wednesday morning – that the long-awaited literary calendar with her contribution has arrived, she could jump for joy, says Roth.
Which post about feelings and thoughts helped her win? She answers the question with a piece of paper on which she quickly draws a frame with a ballpoint pen and several tulips in it. She says “spring,” she loves it, especially when she can go for a walk without being slippery, when the sun is shining, the flowers bloom and it smells great.
She also described these feelings to Annette Aly from Caritas, who put the whole thing down on paper. “I then copied that out and put it under my tulip picture,” she says. She didn’t receive a gift for her text, but the publication in the calendar was gift enough for her.
The calendar: The 80-page literary calendar entitled “The wind also blows into happiness” can be sent by email ([email protected]) or can be ordered by phone at 05215/6095030.
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