17 February 2021

The Viennese Goldhasen festival by chocolate brand Lindt with Easter bunny search, puzzle rally happens for the 1st time online with programme specials like author Thomas Brezina's reading of the Goldhasen story (25 to 28 March)

Normally, the 'Goldhasen' (Golden Bunnies) festival by chocolate brand Lindt happens as adventure tour for the whole family in the gardens of Schloss Schönbrunn in Vienna. On occasion of the pandemic, the festival will be transferred from 25 to 28 March to goldhasensuche.at. The name of the URL references the main attraction: The virtual search for golden bunnies.

The website is already online with a preview of the stations of the adventure tour and countdown of the start of the festival. Host of the festival is TV presenter Kati Bellowitsch who will guide through the programme with hints for the puzzle rally.

One of the stations on the imaginatively illustrated map published at goldhasensuche.at shows a person sitting in an armchair reading a book in front of a greenhouse. On the table near the chair, a golden bunny which seems to listen carefully like the children who are sitting on the garden meadow. The scenery is crowned with a banner carrying the writing 'Goldhasengeschichte'. In the press release, Lindt revealed the identity of the depicted person. The reader is one of Austria's most important children's book authors Thomas Brezina whose books like 'The Knickerbocker Gang' are published worldwide. It's announced that Thomas Brezina will read the story of the 'Goldhase' at the greenhouse 'Palmenhaus' which is part of Schloss Schönbrunn.

Image (from left): Kati Bellowitsch and Thomas Brezina at the Palmenhaus Schönbrunn. Photo: © Philipp Lipiarski / www.goodlifecrew.at.