Cecily Corti

Cecily Corti (2016 at the theater festival Steudltenn Uderns)

Cecily Corti (born April 17, 1940 in Vienna as Agnes Cäcilia Herberstein ) is known for her work for the homeless in Vienna.

Life

Cecily Corti comes from an old Styrian family. She grew up in Slovenia and had to flee to Austria with her mother and four siblings in 1945. At the end of the war, her father was abducted and murdered by partisans passing through; his fate could never be determined in detail.

After years of fleeing, she came to Salzburg , where she graduated from the Wirtschaftskundliches Realgymnasium (WRG) in Salzburg in 1959 . She then completed several stays abroad in Europe.

As an employee of the Alpbach University Weeks , she met Axel Corti (1933–1993), who worked in radio, television and film , whom she married in 1964 and with whom she has three sons.

In the later years of their marriage she was trained in initiatic therapy by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim and learned ZEN meditation , after which she worked therapeutically with groups and individuals for years.

Cecily Corti is chairwoman of the " Vinzenzgemeinschaft St. Stephan" association founded in 2003 and director of the VinziRast-CortiHaus, which opened in 2004 in the 12th district, a low-threshold emergency shelter for the homeless, expanded in 2008 by 29 places for formerly homeless people (VinziRast-CortiHaus). Corti is also the manager of the other VinziRast facilities for the homeless (VinziRast-Wohngemeinschaft, VinziRast-mittendrin, VinziChance and VinziRast-Home). In May 2013, operations began in the "VinziRast mittendrin", a Biedermeier house bought by Hans Peter Haselsteiner for the association in the 9th district , Währinger Straße 19, where homeless people live with students. In spring 2018 she will hand over the management of the association to the new chairwoman Veronika Kerres.

Awards

Cecily Corti was awarded the Viktor Frankl Prize of Honor in 2006 for her social commitment , the Knight's Cross (Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur) of the Legion of Honor in 2008 and a Leopold Kunschak Recognition Prize, and in 2010 the Golden Merit Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria excellent. In 2013 she received the Bruno Kreisky Prize for services to human rights .

Publications

• 2015: You must have been on the ground (recorded by Jacqueline Kornmüller). Brandstätter-Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-85033-908-7

Web links

Commons : Cecily Corti  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• ORF religion: "What do you think?" - Cecily Corti
• The press : Cecily Corti

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petra Stuiber: The Eternal Bad Making of Others , Interview with Cecily Corti, in: Daily newspaper Der Standard , Vienna, June 8/9, 2013, p. 12, electronically on the newspaper's website
2. ↑ List of graduates on the WRG Salzburg website ( memento of the original from August 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b} Viktor Frankl Institute: Honorary Award 2006: Cecily Corti ( Memento of the original from December 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Retrieved April 16, 2012 
4. ↑ site VinziRast: Cecily Corti and the VinziRast electronically on the website [1]
5. ↑ Uni Graz: Leopold Kunschak Prizes 2008 - Three awards to Uni Graz graduates ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 16, 2012 
6. ↑ List of winners of the Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria . Retrieved May 7, 2015.
7. ↑ Cecily Corti and the VinziRast ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 7, 2015.