[2] The Swiss-German cultural journalist Nicola Steiner is responsible for the organisation and conception of the Literaricum Lech.
[4][5] It is intended that each edition of the Literaricum Lech has a classic piece of world literature put into focus.
[6] In 2021, Daniel Kehlmann gave the opening speech on Simplicius Simplicissimus by the Baroque poet Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen.
[8] Since 2023 a poet laureate is selected by a committee initiated by Raoul Schrott with support by the Zürs Tourism Board.
In return, he is obliged to publish a poem every month during a year dealing with current events for the festival's media partners ORF, Der Standard, SWR and Die Welt.