Freedom is the ability to move around on two legs without pain.
Juliana
Klaus Schöffler - the author
I'm glad you're visiting me here on this page. I'm the storyteller. Specifically, when I'm not working as a copywriter and specialist journalist handling corporate press relations. Although, I... Of course, I also write stories, just different ones. Writing, but above all, my curiosity about interesting people who tell me about their lives, never lets me go. On my website, I want to take you along to meet the people I've had the pleasure of getting to know.
I write books about people. These can be short stories that recount a specific experience in their lives and are embedded in a particular context – for example, on topics such as refugees or homelessness.it.
These can also be entire biographies. My clear goal is to write authentic stories in which the protagonist can recognize themselves with a positive feeling and which captivate readers. For this, I draw on over 20 years of professional experience as a journalist. I work primarily for trade publications, and in the past also for daily and weekly newspapers, online magazines, and general-interest magazines. As a journalist, I learned to listen, ask the right questions, and read between the lines. While working on my books, I often met people who had experienced traumatic events and severe blows of fate. For me, these were invaluable experiences. Recently, I have been writing biographies—not exclusively, but primarily—for seniors who want their stories immortalized in a book. In biographical interviews, they tell me about the important stages of their lives.
Five percent that changed everything
At 14, Juliana received a diagnosis that divided her life in two: before and after. Her survival rate was five percent. Chemotherapy, surgeries, and the loss of a leg followed. What remained was a body that was never the same and a future that suddenly seemed uncertain.
But Juliana doesn't give up.
She's fighting her way back to life, step by step: with a prosthesis, with pain, with doubt. She's learning to cope with stares, with exclusion, with a healthcare system that often lets her down. And she's asking herself questions bigger than anything she's ever known: Who am I now? Will I be loved? Can I lead a normal life?
She writes the answer herself.
The "terminally ill girl" becomes a woman who finds her own path. She marries and becomes a mother of four children. She fights her way through life and learns to trust herself and stand up for herself.
This biography tells of loss and strength, of setbacks and new beginnings – and of how even five percent can create an entire life.