Sandra Krautwaschl

Sandra Krautwaschl, 2016

Sandra Krautwaschl (born November 4, 1971 in Graz ) is an Austrian politician of the Greens . The eco-activist was sworn in on June 16, 2015 as a member of the Styrian state parliament .

Private

Sandra Krautwaschl grew up in Gleisdorf and graduated here. In 1994 she graduated from the Academy for Physiotherapy.

The plastic-free living experiment

After a vacation on a Croatian island with a lot of plastic waste on the beach and in the water and inspired by the film Plastic Planet by the Austrian director Werner Boats , which shows the dangers of plastic and synthetic plastics in general in their various forms, Krautwaschl became an eco-activist. After the film's premiere in Graz in November 2009, she decided to live plastic-free with her family for a month and to renounce plastic products. For this purpose, all plastic items in the household were collected and alternative options were sought. In the yard of the property, these piled up to form a huge mountain. The efforts culminated in the film No Home for Plastic , which was produced by ThimFilm GmbH. The film gained international interest; in the ARD as well as in Switzerland or the USA. To this end, she will publish the paperback “Plastic Free Zone - How My Family Can Live Almost Without Plastic” at Heyne Verlag on June 8, 2012. The “attempt” by the Krautwaschl-Rabensteiner family is still ongoing even today (2018). Sandra Krautwaschl also repeatedly passes on her findings and experiences in lectures and discussions.

Sandra Krautwaschl followed up with the 12x18 cm paperback “Waste Free Zone” on January 13, 2020 and presented it at several events in Graz and Styria in the following months. According to the motto “Less stuff, more life”, it conveys how reducing the number of things in the household enables more freedom for life.

Political career

Local Political Krautwaschl was in the church Eisbach since 2010 until the dissolution of the Autonomous Community on 31 December 2014 Councilor active. After the merger with the municipality of Gratwein-Straßengel , she was elected to the municipal council of the new municipality in the 2015 municipal council election. In addition, Krautwaschl is active as deputy district spokeswoman for the Greens in the Graz-Umgebung district.

On November 8, 2014, Sandra Krautwaschl was nominated as a top candidate by the Greens for the regional constituency of Graz and Graz-Umgebung. After the Greens won a direct mandate in the 2015 state elections in the Graz-Umgebung constituency, it was clear that Sandra Krautwaschl would enter the Styrian state parliament. She was sworn in on June 16, 2015.

In the state parliament, Krautwaschl is the chairwoman of the committee for health (health and care, science and research) and a member of the committees for education (education, school, child care, youth, women, family and sport), petitions and social affairs (social affairs, labor market, consumer protection , Seniors and integration).

In January 2019 she was presented as the top candidate of the Greens for the state elections in Styria 2019 . In the state elections on November 24, 2019, the Greens achieved the best result of all time with Krautwaschl as the top candidate (12.08%), whereupon Krautwaschl was also elected the Greens' club chairwoman in the state parliament.

Job, club and family

Krautwaschl works as a physiotherapist . She is married to the special education teacher Peter Rabensteiner and has three children. The family now lives in Eisbach near Graz.

Sandra Krautwaschl is a niece of the diocesan bishop of the diocese Graz-Seckau Wilhelm Krautwaschl .

Sandra Krautwaschl is a member of the Eisbach volunteer fire department.

literature

• Sandra Krautwaschl Plastic Free Zone , Heyne Verlag, Munich 2012, 288 pages, ISBN 978-3-453-60229-8
• Sandra Krautwaschl Waste-Free Zone: How my family manages to free themselves from too much , Heyne, Munich 2020, 240 pages, ISBN 978-3-453-60531-2

Web links

Commons : Sandra Krautwaschl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sandra Krautwaschl - Make Politics Yourself Personal Blog January 2016 - November 2019
• Sandra Krautwaschl as a member of the Styrian Greens website
• Sandra Krautwaschl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• ThimFilm GmbH: No home for plastic - Official homepage for the film (accessed on June 30, 2015)
• Sandra Krautwaschl at www.meineabektiven.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ My Parliament: Sandra Krautwaschl (accessed June 30, 2015)
2. ↑ Oliv, the green side of life: The green head - Sandra Krautwaschl (accessed June 30, 2015)
3. ↑ ARD -Mediathek: Living without plastic - A family tries it out ( Memento of the original from July 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Broadcast on May 17, 2013; accessed June 30, 2015) 
4. ↑ Badische Zeitung of August 20, 2012: The whole thing is bursting with compromises (accessed June 30, 2015)
5. ↑ The Huffington Post of June 29, 2012: Austrian Mom Sandra Krautwaschl And Her Family Go Plastic-Free, Inspiring Others To Do The Same (accessed June 30, 2015)
6. ^ Heyne Verlag: Plastic Free Zone (accessed June 30, 2015)
7. ^ Province of Styria, "Fair Styria" campaign: No home for plastic (accessed on June 30, 2015)
8. ↑ oikos Graz (student initiative to promote sustainability): Plastic-free zone (accessed on June 30, 2015)
9. ↑ Waste-free zone - book presentation Sustainable-in-graz.at, January 16, 2020, accessed March 24, 2020.
10. ↑ ^{a b} ORF Steiermark from November 8, 2014: Green team for Graz and the Graz area fix (accessed on June 30, 2015)
11. ↑ Marktgemeinde Gratwein-Straßengel: Municipal Council (accessed on June 30, 2015)
12. ^ The Green Styria: Graz-Umgebung District (accessed on June 30, 2015)
13. ↑ ^{a b} Die Grünen Styria: State elections: Green team elected for Graz and the Graz area (accessed on June 30, 2015)
14. ↑ ORF Styria from June 3, 2015: Many new faces in the new state parliament  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 30, 2015)  
15. ↑ Landtag Styria: Committee on Health ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 13 KB; accessed July 1, 2015) 
16. ↑ Landtag Styria: Committee on Education ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 14 KB; accessed on July 1, 2015) 
17. ↑ Landtag Styria: Committee for Petitions ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 89 KB; accessed July 1, 2015) 
18. ↑ Landtag Styria: Committee for Social Affairs ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF document, 89 KB; accessed July 1, 2015) 
19. ↑ orf.at: Greens go to state elections with Krautwaschl . Article from January 22, 2019, accessed on January 22, 2019.
20. ↑ Sandra Krautwaschl is the Green Club chairwoman. November 26, 2019, accessed December 12, 2019 . 
21. ↑ Die Weltwoche , issue 4/2011: No more plastic (accessed on June 30, 2015)
22. ↑ ADEG Austria of November 24, 2014: Sustainable shopping works - ADEG awards the most sustainable family in Austria ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed June 30, 2015) 
23. ↑ Kleine Zeitung of May 21, 2015: Greens: Graz can accept more refugees (accessed June 30, 2015)
24. ↑ Sandra Krautwaschl, deputy club chairwoman of the Greens in Styria, voted in fire brigade uniform ... (only because) on the way to the armory and music hall consecration ... , image 10/33 of the article: Federal President election 2016: Review of the runoff election - it remains exciting between Van der Bellen and Hofer, mein district.at, May 22, 2016, accessed July 7, 2016.
25. ↑ Waste-free zone - Sandra-Krautwaschl randomhouse.de, accessed March 24, 2020.