Peter Coreth

Peter Coreth (2013)

Reinhold Messner and Peter Coreth in the Museum Humanum (2014)

Peter Emmerich Coreth (born May 9, 1948 in Linz ) is an Austrian journalist, writer, translator, art collector and museum founder.

Coreth studied political science in Salzburg and Nairobi . From 1971 to 1975 he was editor of the Salzburger Nachrichten . During this time, his novel Arbeitshaft and literary works appeared, for which he was awarded the Georg Trakl Prize for Poetry in 1972.

In the following years he began to collect artistic works from different times and cultures, which were to find a museum presentation at some point. After the fall of the “Iron Curtain”, Coreth bought an old manor in 1992, which is located in Fratres in the northern Waldviertel , close to the border with the Czech Republic. There he founded the Fratres Cultural Bridge in 1995 , a cultural initiative aimed at promoting Austrian-Czech understanding. Since 1996 the “International Carl Orff Week of Encounters” has been held there and in the small town of Slavonice on the Czech side . The “Verein Kulturbrücke” is also the sponsor of the Humanum Museum , which endeavors to present Peter Coreth's art collection in a synopsis of times, cultures and mythologies in the lavishly restored manor.

Appreciations

• 1972 Georg Trakl Award for Poetry
• 2004 Comenius Medal from the Comenius Museum in Prague
• 2004 Prize for “Cross-Border Cultural Work” of the Republic of Austria for the Fratres Cultural Bridge
• 2007 Recognition award of the Lower Austrian Science and Adult Education Award in the adult education category
• 2009 Recognition Prize of the Austrian Museum Prize for Museum Humanum
• 2010 1st prize in the competition "Boundaries Flow" of the Johanna von Pfirt Society, Sankt Blasien

Fonts

• Günter Eich. Text + Criticism Heft 5. Edition Text + Criticism, München 1974.
• Imprisonment. Novel. Winter, Salzburg 1975.
• Worldviews in the mirror of art - the Peter Coreth Collection. Museum Humanum, Waldkirchen ad Thaya 2009, ISBN 978-3-200-01434-3 .

Editor:

• Botho Coreth: Growing up in late autumn. A youth in old Austria . From the biogr. Estate ed. by Peter Coreth. Styria, Graz a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-222-12290-3 .

Web links

• Website of the Museum Humanum
• Kulturbrücke in Fratres , Austria-Forum
• "Borderline experiences with art" , lecture by Peter Coreth (PDF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.museumhumanum.com/web/Museum_6.htm
2. ↑ Federal Chancellery / Information from Austria / 2004 ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2014 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. 
3. ↑ Lower Austria Science and Adult Education Awards 2007
4. ↑ Johanna-von-Pfirt-Gesellschaft / News ( Memento of the original from January 26, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.