The Prix Walo is the most important award in Swiss show business. It is known as the " Swiss Oscar".Prix Walo website
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Awards since 1994

Honorable - Walo - awards

* 1983: Charly Fritsche * 1991: Eynar Grabowsky * 1992: Willi Schmidt, First Harmonic Brass Band * 1993:

Caterina Valente Caterina Valente (born 14 January 1931) is a French multilingual singer, guitarist, and dancer of Italian ethnicity. Valente is a polyglot; she speaks six languages, and sings in eleven. While she is best known as a performer in Europe, Valente ...

, Ettore Cella * 1994:

Alfredo Alfredo (, ) is a cognate of the Anglo-Saxon name Alfred and a common Italian, Galician, Portuguese and Spanish language personal name. People with the given name include: * Alfredo (born 1946), Brazilian footballer born as Alfredo Mostarda F ...

, Adolf Stähli * 1995: Wysel Gyr,

Vico Torriani Vico Torriani (September 21, 1920 in Geneva as Ludovico Oxens Torriani – February 25, 1998 in Agno, Ticino) was a Swiss actor and '' Schlager'' singer. Life Born in Geneva to a family of Lombard origin, Torriani grew up in St. Moritz where ...

Artur Beul Artur Beul (December 9, 1915 in Einsiedeln, Switzerland – January 9, 2010 in Küsnacht) was a Swiss songwriter. He was married from 1949 until her death in 1972 to the German singer Lale Andersen, best known for her interpretation of the song ''Li ...

* 1996:

Anne-Marie Blanc Anne-Marie Blanc (1919–2009) was born on 2 September 1919 in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland. She was a Swiss film and television actress. She died on 5 February 2009 in Zurich, Switzerland.

* 1997: ? * 1998:

Lilo Pulver Liselotte Pulver (born 11 October 1929), sometimes credited as Lilo Pulver, is a Swiss actress. Pulver was one of the biggest stars of German cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, where she often was cast as a tomboy. She is well known for her hearty a ...

, Hannes Schmidhauser * 1999: Fredy Knie senior * 2000: Dimitri * 2001:

Hazy Osterwald Rolf Osterwald, better known as Hazy Osterwald (February 18, 1922 in Bern – February 26, 2012 in Lucerne) was a Swiss jazz bandleader, trumpeter, and vibraphonist. Osterwald began his career as a pianist. He arranged for Fred Böhler in the ...

* 2002:

Walo Lüönd Walo Lüönd (born 13 April 1927 in Zug, died 17 June 2012 in Locarno) was a Swiss movie actor, best known for his role in the movie '' The Swissmakers'' (''Die Schweizermacher'') along with comedian Emil Steinberger. He has had roles in 102 f ...

* 2003:

César Keiser César Keiser or Hanspeter Keiser (4 April 1925 – 25 February 2007) was a Swiss cabarettist, comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor, usually starring in Swiss German language cinema, television and stage productions. Life and w ...

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Margrit Läubli Margrit Läubli (born 3 April 1928) is a Swiss dancer, stage, television and film actress, comedian, cabarettist and radio personality, starring usually in Swiss German language productions. Life and work Born and raised in Zürich, Canton of Z� ...

* 2004: Conelli Conny Gasser,

Herbi Lips Herby ( fa, هروی, also Romanized as Herby) is a village in Meydan Chay Rural District, in the Central District of Tabriz County, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called P ...

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Urs Pfister Urs (from ''‘Urs'') or ''Urus'' (literal meaning wedding), is the death anniversary of a Sufi saint, usually held at the saint's dargah (shrine or tomb). In most Sufi orders such as Naqshbandiyyah, Suhrawardiyya, Chishtiyya, Qadiriyya, etc. ...

* 2005:

Trudi Gerster Trudi Gerster (6September 191927April 2013) was a Swiss actress, fairy tale narrator and politician. Education and early life Prior to attending school, Gerster was already well-educated and literate. As a student, she entertained her classma ...

* 2006:

Walter Roderer Walter Roderer (3 July 1920 – 8 May 2012) was a Swiss actor and screenwriter. He played several leading film roles including the 1959 comedy '' The Model Husband''.Goble p.228 Selected filmography Actor * '' Der 10. Mai'' (1957) * '' The M ...

* 2007:

Lys Assia Lys Assia (born Rosa Mina Schärer; 3 March 1924 – 24 March 2018) was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. Assia was born in Rupperswil, Aargau, and began her stage career as a dancer, but changed to singing in 1940 ...

* 2008:

Nella Martinetti Nella Martinetti (21 January 1946 – 29 July 2011) was a Swiss singer-songwriter, affectionately nicknamed "Bella Nella". She was born in Brissago, Ticino, Switzerland. In 1986, she became the first winner of the Grand Prix der Volksmusi ...

* 2009: Elisabeth Schnell und

Ueli Beck Ueli () is the Swiss hypocoristic form of the masculine given name Ulrich. People with the given name Ueli include: * Ueli Bodenmann (born 1965), Swiss rower * Ueli Gegenschatz (1971–2009), Swiss skydiver * Ueli Kestenholz (born 1975), Swiss snow ...

* 2010:

Hans Leutenegger Hans Leutenegger (born January 16, 1940 in Bichelsee-Balterswil) is a Swiss bobsledder who competed in the early 1970s. He won the gold medal in the four-man event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo. Leutenegger also founded his own cons ...

* 2013: Jörg Schneider

Award: public preferred artists

* 1974:

* 1975:

Hans Gmür Hans Gmür (1 February 1927 – 15 April 2004) was a Swiss-German theatre author, director, composer and producer. He was born in Chur, Switzerland, and graduated from the University of Zürich. Among others, Gmür wrote farces and comedies starri ...

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Karl Suter Karl Suter (1926–1977) was a Swiss screenwriter and film director. He directed the 1967 Eurospy film ''Bonditis''.Cowie p.511 Selected filmography Director * ''The Model Husband (1959 film), The Model Husband'' (1959) * ''The Man in the Black D ...

* 1976:

Peter, Sue & Marc Peter, Sue and Marc were a Swiss music group from Bern. The members were Peter Reber (born 1949, vocals / piano / guitar), Sue Schell (born 1950 in New York, vocals), and Marc Dietrich (born 1948, vocals / guitar). They represented Switzerland ...

* 1977: Kurt Felix * 1978:

Ruedi Walter Rudolf "Ruedi" Walter (born Hans Rudolf Häfeli, 10 December 1916 – 16 June 1990), was a Swiss comedian, actor and radio personality usually starring in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions. Early life and educati ...

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Margrit Rainer Margrit Rainer born as Margrit Rosa Sandmeier (9 February 1914 – 10 February 1982) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actress starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. Early ...

* 1979: Kliby und Caroline * 1980:

Pepe Lienhard Pepe Lienhard (born Peter Rudolf Lienhard; 23 March 1946 in Lenzburg) is a Swiss bandleader and musician. Life Lienhard started a band called "The College Stompers" while he was still in school. He studied law at university but left without a d ...

* 1981: Emil * 1982: Beni Thurnheer * 1983:

* 1984: Beny Rehmann * 1985: Cabaret Rotstift * 1986:

* 1987:

Ursula Schaeppi Ursula Schaeppi or Ursula Schäppi (born 22 June 1940) is a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage, voice and film actress starring usually in Swiss German language stage productions and as voice actress in children's literature. Early life ...

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Walter Andreas Müller Walter Andreas Müller (born 3 September 1945) is a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. Early life and education Born in Zürich, canton of Zürich, in Switzerland, ...

* 1988:

* 1989:

Furbaz Furbaz are a Swiss vocal group consisting of members Marie Louise Werth, Giusep Quinter, Ursin Defuns and Gion Defuns, who perform mainly in the Romansh language. The group was formed in 1983 in Disentis, Graubünden, remaining active until the ...

* 1990: Peter Reber * 1991: Vreni und Rudi * 1992: Marcocello * 1993: Peach Weber * 1994: Birgit Steinegger * 1995:

Fascht e Familie ''Fascht e Familie'' (german: Fast eine Familie) is a Swiss German language television comedy serial (sitcom) of the 1990s. It was filmed and produced at locations in Switzerland by Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Plot (excerpt) The real esta ...

* 1996:

DJ Bobo Peter René Baumann (born 5 January 1968), better known under his stage name DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 12 studio albums as well as several ...

* 1997: Schmirinskis * 1998:

Gölä Marco Pfeuti (born 1968 in Oppligen near Thun), better known by his stage name Gölä, is a popular Swiss rock musician performing mainly in Bernese German. Career The debut album of Gölä's eponymous band ''Uf u dervo'' (1998; en, Up and Awa ...

und Band * 1999:

Francine Jordi Francine Jordi (born Francine Lehmann, 24 June 1977) is a Swiss pop singer. As a young child, she sang songs for Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song " ...

* 2000:

* 2001: Schmirinskis * 2002:

und Florian Ast * 2003: Sven Epiney * 2004: Roman Kilchsperger * 2005:

* 2006: Stephanie Glaser * 2007: Jodlerklub Wiesenberg * 2008: Oesch’s die Dritten * 2009: Cabaret Divertimento * 2010:

Monique Monique is a female given name. It is the French form of the name Monica. The name has enjoyed some popularity in the United States since about 1955, and is less common in other English-speaking countries except for Canada although mostly used ...

* 2011: Patricia Boser * 2012: Luca Häni * 2013:

* 2014: Cabaret Divertimento * 2015: Sabine Dahinden * 2016: Viola Tami * 2017: Stefan Gubser * 2018: Kurt Aeschbacher

Comedy/cabaret

* 1994: Acapickels * 1995: Geschwister Pfister * 1996:

Massimo Rocchi Massimo, also Massimino, and Massimine () is a masculine Italian given name. Notable people with the name include: Given name: * Massimo Agostinelli (Max Agos) (born 1987), Swiss based Italian American artist, entrepreneur and activist * Massimo A ...

* 1997: Duo Fischbach * 1998:

Marco Rima Marco Rima (born April 7, 1961 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a Swiss actor, comedian, cabaret artist and producer. He grew up in the canton of Zug and studied elementary school teaching. He now lives in Oberägeri, canton of Zug. Career In ...

* 1999:

Ursus & Nadeschkin Nadja Sieger (* 22. Mai 1968 in Zürich) is a Swiss comedian, singer, writer, actress and producer, better known as ''Nadeschkin'' of the comedian duo Ursus & Nadeschkin. Life and career Born 1968 in Zürich, Nadja Sieger attended a Gymnasium i ...

* 2000: Flügzüg * 2001: Mölä und Stahli * 2002:

* 2003: Lorenz Keiser * 2004:

Andreas Thiel Andreas Thiel (born March 3, 1960) is a former German handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics, in the 1992 Summer Olympics and in the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympia ...

* 2005:

* 2006: Cabaret Divertimento * 2007: Bagatello * 2008: Simon Enzler * 2009: Cabaret Divertimento * 2010: Claudio Zuccolini

Newcomer

* 1999: Subzonic * 2000: Daniel Fohrler * 2001: Susanne Kunz * 2002: Plüsch * 2003: Mia Aegerter * 2004: Baschi * 2005: Daniel Kandlbauer * 2006: Cornelia Bösch * 2007: Stefanie Heinzmann * 2008:

Sophie Hunger Sophie Hunger (born Émilie Jeanne-Sophie Welti on 31 March 1983) is a Swiss singer-songwriter, film composer, multi-instrumentalist (guitar, blues harp, piano) and bandleader, currently living in Berlin. Early life Émilie Jeanne-Sophie We ...

* 2009:

Lea Lu Lea or LEA may refer to: Places Australia * Lea River, Tasmania, Australia * Lake Lea, Tasmania, from which the Lea River flows * RAAF Base Learmonth, IATA airport code "LEA" England * Lea, Cheshire, a civil parish * Lea, Derbyshire, a se ...

* 2010: Steff la Cheffe * 2011:

Bastian Baker Bastien Kaltenbacher (born 20 May 1991 in Lausanne), better known as Bastian Baker, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, performer and ice hockey player. He is currently under contract with HCV Martigny of the MySports League. He was coach in the thi ...

Pop/Rock

* 1999: Gotthard * 2000: Martin Schenkel * 2001: ? * 2002:

Polo Hofer Urs Alfred "Polo" Hofer (16 March 1945 – 22 July 2017) was a Swiss rock musician. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of Swiss rock music and a ″national treasure″ of Switzerland. Career Hofer composed and sang in Bernese German, ...

* 2003: - * 2004: Plüsch * 2005: Adrian Stern * 2006: Lovebugs * 2007: Stephan Eicher * 2008: Bligg * 2009:

Seven 7 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 7 or seven may also refer to: * AD 7, the seventh year of the AD era * 7 BC, the seventh year before the AD era * The month of July Music Artists * Seven (Swiss singer) (born 1978), a Swiss recording artist ...

* 2010: Adrian Stern

Radio-, TV- and Filmproductions

* 1994:

Pingu ''Pingu'' is a stop-motion children's television series co-created by Otmar Gutmann and Erika Brueggemann. It was originally produced from 1990 to 2000 by Swiss company The Pygos Group (originally called Trickfilmstudio) for SF DRS in Switzerl ...

Film * 1995:

TV * 1996: Katzendiebe Film * 1997: Viktors Spätprogramm TV * 1998: Apéro ''( SR DRS)'' Radio * 1999: Benissimo TV * 2000: Viktors Spätprogramm TV * 2001: Total Birgit TV * 2002:

Aeschbacher Aeschbacher, sometimes spelled Äschbacher, is a surname. People with this surname include: * Adrian Aeschbacher (1912–2002), Swiss pianist; son of Carl, brother of Niklaus * Carl Aeschbacher (1886–1944), Swiss composer; father of Adrian and ...

with Kurt Aeschbacher TV * 2003:

Lüthi und Blanc '' Lüthi und Blanc'' is a Swiss German language television drama serial (soap opera) of the 1990s and 2000s. It was filmed and produced at locations in Switzerland by Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF. Cast and characters (inclompete) Plot ...

(soap opera) TV * 2003:

Achtung, fertig, Charlie! ''Ready, Steady, Charlie!'' (Ge. ''Achtung, fertig, Charlie!'') is a 2003 Swiss movie production directed by Mike Eschmann, starring newcomer Michael Koch, beauty queen Melanie Winiger, and comedian Marco Rima. The plot is a parody about the m ...

Film * 2004: Berg und Geist (

3sat In logic and computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (sometimes called propositional satisfiability problem and abbreviated SATISFIABILITY, SAT or B-SAT) is the problem of determining if there exists an interpretation that satisfie ...

, F TV * 2004: Sternenberg Film * 2005: Mein Name ist Eugen Film * 2006: Glanz & Gloria TV * 2006: Die Herbstzeitlosen Film * 2007: Die grössten Schweizer Hits TV * 2007: Chrigu Film * 2008: Giacobbo/Müller TV * 2008: Auf der Strecke Film * 2009: La Bohéme im Hochhaus TV * 2009: Die Standesbeamtin Film * 2010: Kampf der Chöre TV * 2010:

Sennentuntschi ''Sennentuntschi'' is a 2010 Swiss film written and directed by Michael Steiner. It is based on an eponymous Alpine fable. The film premiered at the 2010 Zurich Film Festival. Plot The film begins with a mother and young daughter mushroom-hun ...

Film

Actors on TV and film

* 1994: Sue Matthys * 1995: Jörg Schneider * 1996:

Mathias Gnädinger Mathias Gnädinger (25 March 1941 – 3 April 2015) was a Swiss stage and film actor. Career Initially a typesetter and typographer, Gnädinger began his acting training at the ''Bühnenstudio Zürich'' (now part of the Zurich University of ...

* 1997:

Inigo Gallo Inigo Gallo (2 November 1932 – 15 December 2000) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions. Life and work Born in Zürich, Canton ...

* 1998:

Bruno Ganz Bruno Ganz (; 22 March 1941 – 16 February 2019) was a Swiss actor whose career in German stage, television and film productions spanned nearly 60 years. He was known for his collaborations with the directors Werner Herzog, Éric Rohmer, Franc ...

* 1999:

Christian Kohlund Christian Kohlund (born 17 August 1950 in Basel, Switzerland) is a Swiss actor and director. Selected filmography * '' The Cheese Factory in the Hamlet'' (1958), as School boy * ''The Pedestrian'' (1973), as Erwin Gotz * ' (1975), as Oberfeld ...

* 2000:

Erich Vock The given name Eric, Erich, Erikk, Erik, Erick, or Eirik is derived from the Old Norse name ''Eiríkr'' (or ''Eríkr'' in Old East Norse due to monophthongization). The first element, ''ei-'' may be derived from the older Proto-Norse ''* ain ...

* 2001: ? * 2002:

* 2003:

Esther Gemsch Esther is the eponymous heroine of the Book of Esther. In the Achaemenid Empire, the Persian king Ahasuerus seeks a new wife after his queen, Vashti, is deposed for disobeying him. Hadassah, a Jewess who goes by the name of Esther, is chos ...

* 2004:

* 2005:

Mike Müller Mike may refer to: Animals * Mike (cat), cat and guardian of the British Museum * Mike the Headless Chicken, chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off * Mike (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee featured in several books and documen ...

* 2006: Stephanie Glaser * 2007:

Anatole Taubman Anatole Taubman (born 23 December 1970) is a Swiss actor. He is best known for his performance as Elvis in ''Quantum of Solace ''Quantum of Solace'' is a 2008 spy film and the twenty-second in the List of James Bond films, ''James Bond'' se ...

* 2008: Sabina Schneebeli * 2009:

* 2010: Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart

Popular hits/ (folk music), popular swiss country music

* 1994: Peter Reber * 1995:

Carlo Brunner Carlo is a given name. It is an Italian form of Charles. It can refer to: * Carlo (name) *Monte Carlo * Carlingford, New South Wales, a suburb in north-west Sydney, New South Wales, Australia *A satirical song written by Dafydd Iwan about Prince ...

* 1996: Peter Zinsli * 1997:

Leonard Leonard or ''Leo'' is a common English masculine given name and a surname. The given name and surname originate from the Old High German ''Leonhard'' containing the prefix ''levon'' ("lion") from the Greek Λέων ("lion") through the Latin '' L ...

* 1998:

* 1999:

* 2000:

* 2000: ? * 2002: Ruedi Rymann * 2003: Streichmusik Alder * 2004: Hans Aregger * 2005:

* 2006: ChueLee * 2007: Jodlerklub Wiesenberg * 2008: Oesch’s die Dritten * 2009: Yasmine-Mélanie * 2010: Nicolas Senn

Other categories

In these categories the award is not given every year or is no more given:

Artists (Clowns), (Circus)

* 1994: Louis Knie * 1995: Dimitri * 1996:

* 1998:

Karls kühne Gassenschau Karls kühne Gassenschau is in the widest sense a Swiss circus, variété or street theatre, as of April 2016 based in Winterthur. Name There's no man called ''Karl'' that initiated the cabaret. ''Karls kühne Gassenschau'', meaning ''Charles' ...

Country/Blues/Roots

* 1995:

John Brack John Brack (10 May 1920 – 11 February 1999) was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group. According to one critic, Brack's early works captured the idiosyncrasies of their time "more powerfully and succinctly than any Aust ...

* 2005:

* 2008:

Philipp Fankhauser Philipp Manuel Fankhauser (born 20 February 1964 in Thun, Switzerland) is a Swiss blues musician and songwriter. Several of his albums have charted in the top ten of the Swiss Hitparade, such as ''Love Man Riding'', which peaked at No. 7, ''Home ...

* 2011: C.H. (Kisha, Reto Burrell, Rickenbacher)

Dance

* 2005:

DJ Tatana Tatana Sterba (born October 7, 1976 in Uherské Hradiště, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic) as ''Taťána Štěrbová'' (), in 1980 the family emigrated to Switzerland) is a dance and trance producer better known under her alias Tatana ...

DJ/Hip Hop

* 2002:

* 2009: Greis * 2010: Bligg

International success

* 1995:

DJ BoBo Peter René Baumann (born 5 January 1968), better known under his stage name DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer-songwriter, rapper, dancer, and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 12 studio albums as well as several ...

Jazz/Gospel/Boogie-Woogie

* 1995: Bo Katzman

Writers for TV, TV-moderators

* 1994:

Charles Lewinsky Charles Lewinsky (14 April 1946) is a Swiss screenwriter and playwright (among others '' Fascht e Familie''), as well as a writer of novels and non-fiction, born and living in Zürich. Early life and education Born and raised in Zürich, Canto ...

* 1996:

Viktor Giacobbo Viktor Giacobbo (born February 6, 1952) is a Swiss writer, comedian and actor. Life After school in Winterthur, he made an apprenticeship as a typesetter. Afterwards, he was a corrector, reader and media documentalist. Initially, he was auth ...

* 1997: Beni Thurnheer

Music award

* 2001: Gotthard

Pop

* 1994:

* 1995:

Sina Sina may refer to: Relating to China * Chin (China), or Sina (), old Chinese form of the Sanskrit name Cina () ** Shina (word), or Sina ( ja, 支那, links=no), archaic Japanese word for China ** Sinae, Latin name for China Places * Sina, Al ...

* 1996: Florian Ast * 1997:

* 1998: Kisha * 2003:

Lunik Lunik () is a band from Switzerland. There are currently three members. Lunik started in 1997 with Adi Amstutz, Luk Zimmermann, Mats Marti, Walo Müller and Anton Höglhammer. Singer Jaël joined the band in 1998 and Anton Höglhammer left the ...

Rock

* 1994:

Züri West Züri West ( Swiss German for ''Zürich West'') is a Swiss rock band. Most of their songs are written in Bernese German. The band's name is an ironic reference to Bern, the capital of Switzerland, as merely a place west of Zürich, the largest ...

* 1995:

* 1996: Gotthard * 1997: Gotthard * 1998:

* 2003:

Patent Ochsner Patent Ochsner is one of Switzerland's best-known rock bands, all of whose studio albums but one have topped the Swiss charts. Hailing from Bern, they perform songs in Swiss German. Current line-up (2006) * Hanspeter Huber (vocals) * Monic ...

Popular hits / french "Chanson"

* 1994: Dodo Hug * 1999:

Toni Vescoli Toni, Toñi or Tóni is a unisex given name. In Spanish, Italian, Croatian and Finnish, it is a masculine given name used as a short form of the names derived from Antonius like Antonio, Ante or Anttoni. In Danish, English, Finnish, Norweg ...

* 2006: ChueLee

Cirkus, Theater and Musical

* 1994: Keep Cool * 1995: Space Dream * 1998: Circus Monti * 2000: Circus Monti * 2006:

* 2007: Ewigi Liebi * 2008: - * 2009: Die kleine Niederdorfoper * 2010: Dällebach Kari

Special events

* 2010: Open Air Hoch-Ybrig

References

{{reflist Swiss awards