October 25, 2023 – 11:51 am
Our colleagues, Barbara Vinci and Gabor Bräutigam with certificates – Photo: Zsolt Petke
Our colleague, Barbara Vinci, and her interviewee, Gabor Bräutigam, frontman drummer of Kisbal and Bors, won the Ébredésés Alapítvány Antistigma award with their interview “When I came here to ask for help, my life was at stake.” Published in June. According to the justification, “Barbara Vinci’s excellent article sensitizes society to the problems of addiction” and “reproduces the experiences and difficulties of Gabor Brautigam for the general public.”
The Anti-Stigma Prize can be won by journalists, writers, creatives, professionals, public figures and stakeholders who take fair and convincing action against the exclusion and discrimination of people with mental problems.
Gabor Brautigam plays drums in one of the country’s most important orchestras, and was in high spirits at Kisbal’s concerts, while alcohol was drawing him deeper and deeper. At the last moment, when he couldn’t live or die, he asked for help and surrendered. He spent 14 months in rehab and now helps addicts himself. He does not consider addiction to be taboo, on the contrary: he has a lot to say about it.
In the interview, Barbara Vinci spoke with Gabor Brautigam about alcoholism, the resulting rehabilitation, survival, and a new identity.
The twenty-eighth was recognized. Presented by Ébredésés Alapítvány at the Community Psychiatry, Addiction and Mental Health Conference on October 25 in Budapest. In addition to Vinci and Brautigam, at the organization’s second presentation in 2023, Anka Kristof was also given a prize for his first book, Excluded from the Line, in which he wrote about his life with paranoid schizophrenia.
