Horst Markus Horvath
grew up in Neudörfl and has lived and worked in Oberwart since 1986. After his apprenticeship as a toolmaker, civilian service, then educator in the Pöttsching children's village and labor market supervisor for the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs with the task of work and social projects for the long-term unemployed - first women's counseling, renovation courses - Schlaining Castle, Güssing Castle, Cselley Mill Osilip, Wiesen festival grounds, Oberwart Youth Center - Open House Oberwart, first Roma association, women's counseling center, etc. Co-founder and chairman of Offenes Haus Oberwart, the R.E.F.U.G.I.U.S. association, of the edition lex liszt 12, the first Austrian Roma association in Oberwart, the children's festival Burg Forchtenstein Fantastisch, the Roma adult education center Burgenland, the eu-art-network as well as active and co-initiator of peace, environmental and third world movements, anti-nuclear movement, day of action against fascism, Roma Oberwart association, SOS-Mitmensch - in the main coordination team for the “Lichtermeer” and much more.
Awards:
- 1997 “OSMAN” for social and youth workers especially for Roma
- 2002 Award for adult education from the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Culture for the digital documentation on Roma “ROMA 2000”
- 2003 Decoration of Honor of the Province of Burgenland
- 2012 Regionality Prize of the Burgenland district newspapers for publishing activities
- 2013 “Martini Prize” from the Burgenland weekly newspaper BVZ in the culture category
- 2017 “Oberwarter Wächter” for 25 years of voluntary work at edition lex liszt 12