Since january 2017 Alexandra Eichenauer-Knoll is the chairperson of Herzverstand, the Association for the promotion, organization and operation of the Comedor del Arte. She taught German in the Comedor and liked to play games, with both children and adults. She ist also responsible for the website and wrote nice storys about our work. Since  Franz Witzmann passed away in July 2023 she alone is responsible for the distribution of the money for people in need of help. Furthermore Alexandra is an active member of #zusammenHaltNÖ

Email: alexandra@comedordelarte.at

From the beginning, Renate Hoefler was a student learning Arabic led by Ghazi Hares at Comedor del Arte. Therefore she knows first hand how difficult it can be to learn a language that is very different from the native language. For quite a while she has been supporting our afternoon German language classes and for many years she helped children doing their homework in the Comedor del Arte-house. In addition, the very talented Salesperson with the big heart is a great support at various Comedor initiatives. And from the beginning till now Renate is member of the Herverstand-board.

Josef Matscheko is a very active and reliable member of our association since 2025. Joschi, as he is called by his friends, is working as a music teacher at the Private University of Education, Diözese Linz. He is therefore playing piano during our Market-cafes at Christmas and Easter-time. This year he developped together with Alexandra a songbook with partly own Easter-children-songs, which is sold in favor of our association. Joschi is also supporting and coaching our singers, Liudmyla and Mika.

 

 

Mika Abdullaeva is the musical ambassador of the Comedor del Arte. She was singing already on the Human-Rights stage during the Viennese Donauinselfest. She was also on stage together with her sister Aida at the opening of the Christmas season in Hainfeld. In her strong voice we hear her hope for more justice and fairness. In her songs we feel her longing for happiness.

 

Reinhard Joelli grew up in Hainfeld, and has been a friend of Franz Witzmann since primary school. He studied Social and Economic Sciences, and then moved to USA for personal reasons and ended up in California (San Francisco) for his job. Lately he is returning to Hainfeld multiple times a year in order to take care of his Mom. Here he connected with Franz again, and got involved with Comedor del Arte. He is still our English website translator.