Dadja Altenburg-Kohl
Drahoslava " Dadja " Altenburg- Kohl ( born 30 May 1949 Prague, Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech doctor and entrepreneur who lived in the 1970s to the 1990s in Germany and worked. It is philanthropist, collector and patron of the arts. Upon her return to the Czech Republic in Prague, she founded the Foundation DrAK and the Museum Montanelli.
Life
Altenburg -Kohl graduated from the Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and emigrated in 1972 for political reasons abroad.
In Germany she worked from 1973 as a doctor at the University Hospital in Frankfurt am Main, where she specialized in oral surgery. In 1980, she opened a private medical practice with the same specialization.
In addition to her work as a doctor, she built with her then-husband Edwin Kohl from 1986, the company kohlpharma on a drug importer in Germany. Kohlpharma later became a subsidiary of Kohl Medical AG, at the Altenburg- Kohl since 1993 Teilhaberin and board member.
In the Czech Republic, she founded the drug trade and distribution company Pragofarm shortly after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. One of her other projects in Germany in 1995 was the establishment of the company Assist, which focuses on enteral nutrition and aids for chronically ill patients.
Since 1995 she is also co-owner of game publisher Amigo, which develops children's and family games. In collaboration with Michael Melkonian from the Botanical Institute of the University of Cologne in 2004, she built on the company Algenion that deals with the use of microalgae.
From 2004, she was alternately operating in the Czech Republic and Germany. In 2006, she finally returned to Prague and lives here with her husband Daniel Pešta. She has four grown children. Since 2010 she is member of the Women's Advisory Board of UniCredit Group XX Munich.
Cultural Activities
In Prague ( Neruda 13) she founded in 2003 the gallery Montanelli, at the six-year exhibitions the Museum Montanelli anknüpfte. Patron of the Museum Montanelli was the former Czech president Václav Havel, who opened it in 2009 solemnly.
In 2005, she was elected to the board of the European Art Forum Berlin. In addition, she has worked as a curator at several joint projects of the Saarland Gallery Berlin and the Czech Republic.
Since 2006, operates in Prague DrAK her foundation, which focuses on the areas of culture and medical prevention. The Art Collection of DrAK Foundation is managed by the Museum Montanelli. Altenburg- Kohl was involved as a curator at monographic and thematic exhibitions and organized an international project exchange with museums and galleries in Europe.
The Foundation also promotes DrAK Theatre ( Prague National Theatre, Divadlo Ungelt ), Cinematography (film Citizen Havel ) and cancer prevention (manual breast examination with the MammaCare method).
In Prague, Altenburg -Kohl supported since 2005, the Czech National Theatre, she is a member of the Council of the National Theatre, and founded his patron Club (Club mecenášů ND), which currently has 120 members.
She has the staging of Mozart's Don Giovanni, the jazz opera Dobře placená procházka directed by Miloš Forman, the ballet idea Causa Carmen supported financially. She donated the ballet ensemble of the National Theatre a larger amount and acquired for the orchestra a concert violin made by Mihály Reményi of 1909. In 2009, she was restored to Hynais curtain and donated to the National Theatre with her husband, a bronze bust of Václav Havel.
In 2013 her family funded the first phase of the restoration of the lunettes of Mikuláš Aleš and František Ženíšek. The restoration work is expected to last until 2015. In the show since 2012, it occurs in the ballet ensemble of the National Theatre on Sleeping Beauty.
She was twice awarded the prize "Cena Ď " the Director of the National Theatre.
She is also the winner of the international European Awards Trebbia Foundation for Cultural Promotion - Personality of the Year in 2012.