2023-09-15 11:30:00
Lower Austria/Litschau, September 2023 // The Schrammel.Klang.Festival, which was held very successfully in its 17th edition in Litschau this July with around 8,000 visitors, has repeatedly been awarded the Austrian Ecolabel and as a Green Event been. The awarding of the most important state-certified environmental seal was carried out by Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler and Art and Culture State Secretary Andrea Mayer in Vienna.
The Schrammel.Klang.Festival, founded by artistic director and director Zeno Stanek in 2007, has been an integral part of the cultural map of Lower Austria for almost two decades now. It impresses with its unique symbiosis of music, nature, theater and cuisine – right on the idyllic Herrensee in Litschau in the Waldviertel. The program includes concerts on natural stages in the forest, on the meadow and by the water, as well as matinees and evening concerts Herrenseetheater, as well as a steam locomotive ride, a night hike and several workshop formats. Picnic huts and a high-quality, regional delicacy alley also take the festival to culinary heights.
“This festival of ‘Austrian world music’ is a green event, with the overriding premise that environmental protection and sustainability lead to a demonstrable increase in quality,” as Zeno Stanek explains. In more depth he says: “Increased quality always means more enjoyment, a symbiosis or fusion of music with nature, of music with literature and theater in the midst of the unadulterated Waldviertel nature – and the combination with regional and seasonal cuisine! Both for our guests as well as for the region and the population, who, as volunteers, play a key role in the success – including in the awarding of the environmental seal. All of you, our audience, the people of Litschauer, and my entire festival team deserve thanks and recognition.”
This happened in late summer this year Schrammel.Klang.Festival by fulfilling the ZU 200 guidelines for tourism, gastronomy and cultural businesses, we have once once more received the environmental label and certification as a Green Event (ZU 62). Back in 2013, the multi-day music festival in the northern Waldviertel was the first art festival in Lower Austria to receive this coveted award.
The range of measures taken is wide – it involves, among other things, regional value creation and social compatibility, offers for an environmentally friendly arrival and departure of guests (public transport as well as carpooling or the rideshare exchange), sustainable products for supplying guests, regional, seasonal and organic food for catering and meals, resource-saving material management, environmentally friendly procurement, waste avoidance and disposal. Through a cooperation with Radland NÖ and nextbike Particular attention was paid to getting around by bicycle, especially for short distances, as an alternative to cars.
Due to the annual expansion of numerous environmental and resource-saving measures, a separate Green Event Team was increasingly implemented as part of the festival, which, led by Elina Stanek, the director’s daughter, takes on all “green” festival agendas and continuously adapts and expands them.
Outlook: For the next few years, uncomplicated charging stations for electric cars as well as an even greater implementation of organic food and vegan products are being considered.
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