(Excerpts from IMPULSE,
3/99;
published by Landeskrankenhaus Tulln)
Portrait: Gerlinde Zickler, born 27.9.1944
married with one daughter 2 granddaughters resident of Tulln since
1978 .
Every
Monday at 3 pm little patients wait excitedly for Clown Tschitscho
at the children's ward of Tulln Hospital. "Look, a clown, a real
clown! Can you do magic? What have you got in your bag?" More and
more children are joining the crowd.
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Tschitscho
is so small and has got enormous feet.
Her nose is nearly bigger than his face. She
can blow bubbles as big as a football. |
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As
a child, Tschitscho was very ill as well. At the age of 1 ½ she
was taken to Stolzalpe and had to spend 29 months in a plaster cast
bed. Since then she has had to live with a physical handicap.
But a clown can be big or small, ugly or beautiful,
straight or hunchbacked. There's nothing more rewarding than to
cheer up sick children.
Painting is Mrs Zickler's favourite hobby. Many of her pictures
can soon be studied in a book.
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Extract
from:
> "Tritt ein - fühl Dich wie daheim" < (Magazine published
by: NÖ Landes- Pensionisten- und Pflegeheim Tulln/Donau).
<Mastering one's life. >
It
is not the perfect body that makes people great. It is the actions
of our heart that make us grow. Tulln artist Gerlinde Zickler knows
how to tackle life. She was born in 1944 at Zams (Tyrol). Hardly
a year later, she was struck by tuberculosis of the bone.
A long way of suffering with numerous stays
at hospitals and sanatoria did not render that poor girl desperate,
and neither did the wearing of a corset made of leather and metal.
Soon she discovered her artistic talent.
After secondary school she attended a three-year
Business School and moved to Zwentendorf in 1962, a year in which
she also embarked on an office career |
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October 1999 she has been making our residents laugh by her weekly
appearance as Clown Tschitscho. |
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She
got married, had a daughter and moved to Tulln in 1978. For six
years Gerlinde Zickler has been chairperson of an association called
'Miteinander Leben' (Living
Together).
She devotes herself to the construction of
a home for mentally and physically handicapped people.
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