Welcome at the homepage of
Kunst-ohne-Barrieren
(Art without barriers)!
Our goal is to offer a platform to people of all ages, with or without
handicap, to share ideas, experiences and offer the possibility of self-
fulfilment by the means of various events.
We consider us as a helping hand for integration of people with a handicap
and a mean to bring forward tolerance towards them.
About the founder:
Since the 2nd July 2010 Brigitte is paralysed by an yet undefined reason.
Since her childhood she has a very strong relationship to horses, with her last one, a
Thoroughbread-mare named SISSI (who unfortunately died in February 2010) she has
spent 20 years together and she owned two Fjord-horses, too. With one of them, TROLL,
she even has been places 6th (of 16 starters) in a 40 km distance-race in Hungary.
Brigitte is a citizen of the world, originating from Germany, she lived for 9 years in
France between two terms in Hungary and now came to settle in Austria.
In Hungary, she organized in 2008 and 2009 a cultural event with the goal of the
integration of people with a handicap (www.historica-hungaria.gportal.hu,
www.kez-a-kezben.gportal.hu), and now wishes to help them in and from her new
chosen homecountry by the means of art, culture and sport.
In early summer of 2011 she got in contact with the Reit- und Therapiezentrum
Kottingbrunn (Riding- and Therapycenter of Kottingbrunn), during a horsemanship-
conversation with Gabriele Orac an idea was born to stage a free-program with music as
Show-Interlude on the Fjord-horse Sissy. Brigitte has tailored her costume of her own
and is riding to the solo of Elisabeth from the musical Elisabeth sung by her Hungarian
friend Kata Janza.
Other Show-Interludes are planned or in preparation, a horse-theater and further
sport/art/cultural events with and for people with or without a handicap.
In her free time Brigitte writes novels and theater-plays (www.okelly-
regenyek.gportal.hu), has worked at theaters for some time as artistic assistant, visits
performances of her friends and offers her language-knowledge to the representation of
interest of people with handicap in Hungary.
Brigitte Welcker / Maureen O'Kelly
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