Red nosed clown doctors
| Red nosed clown doctors | |
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| legal form |
Association ( ZVR : 599371232) |
| founding | 1994 |
| founder | Max Friedrich , Monica Culen , Giora Seeliger |
| Seat | Vienna 17 , Wattgasse |
| main emphasis | Association to support sick or suffering people through humor and zest for life |
| Action space | Austria |
| Website | www.rotenasen.at |
Rote Nasen Clowndoctors ( red noses clowndoctors ) is an Austrian association that has set itself the task of giving sick people hope and courage to live in hospitals and care institutions by means of specially trained clowns.
The Union
The association was founded on November 10, 1994 by Max Friedrich , Monica Culen and Giora Seeliger . The first visits were made to the Mautner Markhof'schen Children's Hospital and the SMZ Ost in Vienna in the same year. Originally, the association's work focused exclusively on looking after sick children. However, this was extended to geriatric patients in 1999, to rehab patients in 2003 and to visits to mentally and multiply disabled children and adolescents in 2012.
“The clown is able in a special way to weaken and resolve depression, operation shocks or desperate resistance to painful therapies. It breaks through the patient's closeness to the environment and awakens the will to live where its absence can become an immediate danger. "
Rote Nasen Clowndoctors are recruited from artists from various fields of the performing arts , e.g. B. Acting, magic, pantomime , acrobatics, etc. These are only accepted into the clowndoctors team after an audition and a subsequent trial period with extensive training, including in clown techniques , magic, music, basic medical and psychological knowledge and awareness training.
Visits to hospitals are usually carried out in teams of two, who always work closely with the nursing staff and try to bring the patient some joy into the dreary everyday hospital routine.
Since March 13, 2006 the association is entitled to use the Austrian seal of approval for donations .
In an interview from July 2020, Martin Kotal, artistic director of the Rote Nasen Clowndoctors, explained that clowning is less about the red nose and more about the daily failure and tragedy of the clown . According to Kotal, it's about real emotional reactions, being human and laughing together. The day-to-day failure and dying on the stage evokes salvation for the audience.
Red Noses Clowndoctors International
The Red Nose Organization Piros Orr was founded in Hungary in 1996, followed by the successive establishment of professional Red Nose clowndoctor programs in the Czech Republic , Slovakia , Slovenia , Poland , Lithuania , Germany , Croatia and Palestine .
In order to create an organizational structure that administers this artistically and scientifically superior care program for over 500,000 patients, the non-profit private foundation Rote Nasen Clowndoctors International was founded in March 2003 .
The purposes of this foundation include:
- Establishment and coaching of red nose organizations in other countries; These are bound by partnership contracts to Rote Nasen International and their artistic and organizational guidelines, and must adhere to the joint management and quality standards.
- International knowledge management of clown work and joint research on the subject of "Humor and Health"
- Operation of the International School of Humor "ISH Vienna", which was founded by the foundation.
The documentary For a Smile ... by the German filmmakers Pirmin Styrnol and Till Mayer , which premiered at the Bamberg Short Film Festival in January 2019 , accompanied a group of international clown doctors on their mission to Kiev.
Awards
- 1997: 2nd place Austrian Fundraising Prize
- 1998: 1st place Austrian Fundraising Prize
- 1999: Prize of the Leopold Gratz Foundation for social commitment
- 1999: 2nd place Austrian Fundraising Prize
- 2001: Golden Award of Excellence for Humanity from the World Association of Private Schools and Universities for Complementary Healing Practices
- 2001: Prize of the Leopold Gratz Foundation for social commitment
- 2001: Styrian of the month September
- 2002: 1st place Austrian Fundraising Prize
- 2004: Print Oscar
- 2005: Josef Krainer Prize
- 2008: Award of the Silver Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria to Red Nose Clowndoctors co-founder Monica Culen
- 2010: Giora Seeliger, co-founder and artistic director of Rote Nasen Clowndoctors was awarded the Silver Medal of Honor for services to the Republic of Austria.
- 2010: WOMAN Award: Monica Culen received an award in the Social / International category.
- 2011: Magazine Award from NEWS Verlag: Gold in the “Online Advertising” category with red nose banners
- 2011: Fundraising Award; Winner in the "Best Fundraising Spot of the Year" category
- 2011: Monica Culen was nominated Austrian of the Year by the daily newspaper Die Presse
- 2012: Magazine Award from News Verlag
- 2015: Centrope Prize for the “Red Nose Clowndoctors” with its founder, Monica Culen
- 2015: Viennese pension award for the Rote Nasen project Varieté
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RED NOSES Clowndoctors: Annual Report 2015 (PDF). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 21, 2016 ; accessed on November 21, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ RED NOSES Clowndoctors: The Contributors. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Austrian Spendengütesiegel: RED NOSES. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Interview with clown doctor Martin Kotal. Retrieved August 8, 2020 .
- ↑ Current map on Rotenaseninternational.com (accessed October 26, 2016).
- ↑ RED NOSES International: History. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 22, 2016 ; accessed on November 21, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ RED NOSES Clowndoctors: International School of Humor (ISH). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 21, 2016 ; accessed on November 21, 2016 . 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.
- ↑ For a smile | Documentary | Clowndoctors Ukraine. Accessed May 31, 2019 .
- ↑ Stubenvoll presented awards to three NGO employees. In: www.wien.gv.at. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Culen Monica. In: diepresse.com. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Centrope Prize for Red Noses. In: www.wien.gv.at. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Vienna Health Prize 2015: Excellent ideas for a healthy Vienna. In: www.wien.gv.at. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
