ÖVP politician from Linz

“Contract was a loss-making business for my husband”

Doris Lang-Mayerhofer (ÖVP) defends herself against compliance accusations.(Bild: Krone KREATIV/Horst Einöder/Markus Wenzel)

A real political bombshell in the Linz sub-cosmos went off on Tuesday in the supervisory board of the Linzer Veranstaltungsgesellschaft (LIVA for short): an audit report accuses ÖVP city politician Doris Lang-Mayerhofer (she is also a member of the LIVA supervisory board) of a conflict of interest. The reason is her husband's company, which was awarded a carpentry contract for the Brucknerhaus. She explains to the "Krone" why the bill didn't work out. 

For the first time since March, not only the now dismissed artistic director and artistic director of the Brucknerhaus, Dietmar Kerschbaum, has become the focus of possible conflicts of interest, but also a political office holder: Doris Lang-Mayerhofer, ÖVP city councillor for culture and deputy chairwoman of the LIVA supervisory board. According to a report presented on Tuesday by the auditing company KPMG, her husband's company, Interior Design Maylan, in which the ÖVP politician also appears in the company register as a 50 percent shareholder, is said to have received an order for carpentry work for the new entrance area in the Brucknerhaus. Cost: 67,608 euros - "Krone" has the invoice.