522,800 euros donated

Pharmaceutical heiress with a huge heart for sick children

(Bild: Arche Herzensbrücken)

The "Arche Herzensbrücken" offers families with sick children a time-out. Now the Tyrolean association can look forward to half a million euros from BASF descendant Marlene Engelhorn.

The call reached Horst Szeli completely unprepared. "I didn't really understand what it was all about at first," smiles the Tyrolean by choice, who founded the "Herzensbrücken Ark" around twelve years ago. A woman on the other end of the line tried to make him believe that his association, which had also won first place at the Krone's Herzensmensch Gala the previous year, was receiving more than half a million euros in donations from pharmaceutical heiress Marlene Engelhorn.