The concept of Tag gegen Lärm- International Noise Awareness Day in Germany

摘要

In 2012 on April 25th Germany was celebrating the 15th Tag gegen Lärm that counts forpeople’s awareness regarding noise and counting on people’s activities and actions at andaround this event. The focus is on different noises and its sources and the way how peoplefeel about that noise and how they act in the different daily noise scenarios. The action Taggegen Lärm is supported by different agencies and institutions, the main sponsor is theGerman Federal Environment Agency and the Federal Ministry for the Environment.Over the years it became also an action of the German Acoustical Society. The concept isbased on the scientific input with regard to human health and noise effects and is a matterof public education, which is supported also through features and reports of the mainbroadcast stations. Also, many European countries stepped in. The action that the authorof this paper brought into Germany was following the Noise Awareness Day in USA, whichstarted as an initiative of the Center for Hearing and Communication (former League forthe Hard of Hearing) and Nancy Nadler at that time of the late nineties. Nowadays noiseawareness is part of quality of life.