Dadja Altenburg-Kohl

Dadja Altenburg-Kohl, 2017

Drahoslava "Dadja" Altenburg-Kohl (born May 30, 1949 , Prague , Czechoslovakia ) is a Czech doctor and entrepreneur who lived and worked in Germany from the 1970s to the 1990s. She is a philanthropist , collector and art patron. After returning to the Czech Republic, she founded the DrAK Foundation and the Montanelli Museum in Prague.

Life

Altenburg-Kohl studied at the Medical Faculty of Charles University in Prague and emigrated abroad in 1972 for political reasons.

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 and her then husband Edwin Kohl set up the company kohlpharma from 1986, a pharmaceutical importer in Germany. Kohlpharma later became a subsidiary of Kohl Medical AG, of which Altenburg-Kohl has been a partner and board member since 1993.

In the Czech Republic, shortly after the Velvet Revolution in 1989 , she founded the pharmaceutical trading and distribution company Pragofarm. One of her other projects in Germany in 1995 was the founding of the Assist company, which focuses on enteral nutrition and aids for chronically ill patients.

Since 1995 she has also been the co-owner of the games publisher Amigo, which develops children's and family games. In collaboration with Michael Melkonian from the Botanical Institute of the University of Cologne, she set up the company Algenion in 2004, which deals with the use of microalgae.

From 2004 she worked alternately 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 has been a member of the Women's Council of UniCredit Group XX Munich.

Cultural activities

In 2003, she founded the Montanelli Gallery in Prague (Nerudova 13), and the Montanelli Museum followed up on its six-year exhibition. The patron of the Montanelli Museum was the former Czech President Václav Havel , who inaugurated it in 2009.

In 2005 she was elected to the board of the European Art Forum Berlin . She is also active as a curator on several joint projects between the Saarländische Galerie Berlin and the Czech Republic.

Her foundation DrAK, which focuses on the areas of culture and medical prevention, has been operating in Prague since 2006. The DrAK Foundation's art collection is managed by the Montanelli Museum. Altenburg-Kohl was involved as a curator in monographic and thematic exhibitions and organized an international project exchange with museums and galleries in Europe.

The DrAK Foundation also supports theater (Prague National Theater, Divadlo Ungelt ), cinematography (film Citizen Havel) and cancer prevention (manual breast examination using the MammaCare method).

Altenburg-Kohl has been supporting the Czech National Theater in Prague since 2005, she is a member of the National Theater Council and founded its patronage club (Klub mecenášů ND), which currently has 120 members.

She financially supported the production of Mozart's Don Giovanni , the jazz opera Dobře placená procházka directed by Miloš Forman and the ballet performance Causa Carmen. She donated a large amount to the ballet ensemble of the National Theater and bought a 1909 concert violin by Mihály Reményi for the orchestra. In 2009 she had the Hynais curtain restored and together with her husband donated a bronze bust of Václav Havel to the National Theater.

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. Since 2012 she has appeared in the National Theater's ballet ensemble in the performance of Sleeping Beauty.

She was twice awarded the “Cena Ď” prize by the director of the National Theater.

She is also the winner of the international European Award of the Trebbia Foundation for the promotion of culture - Personality of the Year 2012.

literature

Hynaisova opona pro Národní divadlo. Restaurování a technologický průzkum opony v historické budově Národního divadla v Praze, Berger T, Straková P, Záhoř T, in: Staletá Praha. Praha: Národní památkový ústav, územní odborné pracoviště v hlavním měste Praze, 2011 140 + 124 p. 27, č. 1, (2011), pp. 4-26

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personal data
SURNAME	Altenburg-Kohl, Dadja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Altenburg-Kohl, Drahoslava
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech doctor and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH	May 30, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH	Prague , Czechoslovakia