Prix Walo
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The Prix Walo is the most important award in Swiss show business. It is known as the "Swiss Oscar".
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Honorable - Walo - awards

  • 1983: Charly Fritsche
  • 1991: Eynar Grabowsky
  • 1992: Willi Schmidt, First Harmonic Brass Band
  • 1993: Caterina Valente
    Caterina Valente
    Caterina Valente is a singer, dancer, and actress. She was born into an Italian artist family; her father Giuseppe was a well-known accordion player, her mother, Maria Valente, a musical clown...

    , Ettore Cella
    Ettore Cella
    Ettore Cella was a Swiss actor and film director. He appeared in 25 films between 1941 and 2004. He starred in the 1976 film The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner, which was entered into the 26th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* The Sudden Loneliness of Konrad Steiner *...

  • 1994: Alfredo, Adolf Stähli
  • 1995: Wysel Gyr, Vico Torriani
    Vico Torriani
    -Selected filmography:* Der bunte Traum * Straßenserenade * Gitarren der Liebe * Ein Herz voll Musik * Santa Lucia * Robert and Bertram...

    , Artur Beul
    Artur Beul
    Artur Beul was a Swiss songwriter. He was married to the German chanteuse Lale Andersen from 1949 until her death in 1972.- Discography :...

  • 1996: Anne-Marie Blanc
    Anne-Marie Blanc
    -Selected filmography:* Gilberte de Courgenay * White Cradle Inn * La blonde de Pékin * Klassäzämekunft -External links:...

  • 1997: ?
  • 1998: Lilo Pulver, Hannes Schmidhauser
    Hannes Schmidhauser
    -Selected filmography:* William Tell * General Sutter -External links:...

  • 1999: Fredy Knie senior
  • 2000: Dimitri
    Dimitri (clown)
    Dimitri . After changing his name, his official name is Jakob Dimitri. He is a well-known Swiss clown and mime.- Early life and training :...

  • 2001: Hazy Osterwald
  • 2002: Walo Lüönd
    Walo Lüönd
    Walo Lüönd is a Swiss movie actor, best known for his role in the movie The Swissmakers along with comedian Emil Steinberger....

  • 2003: César Keiser und Margrit Läubli
  • 2004: Conelli Conny Gasser, Herbi Lips und Urs Pfister
  • 2005: Trudi Gerster
  • 2006: Walter Roderer
  • 2007: Lys Assia
    Lys Assia
    Lys Assia born Rosa Mina Schärer on 3 March 1924, Rupperswil, Aargau, Switzerland) is a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. When Lys Assia was a young girl she was a dancer. In 1940, however, she stood in for a female singer...

  • 2008: Nella Martinetti
    Nella Martinetti
    Nella Martinetti was a Swiss singer and songwriter.Martinetti was born in Brissago, Switzerland. In 1986, she became the first winner of the Grand Prix der Volksmusik with the song Bella Musica, which she had composed herself...

  • 2009: Elisabeth Schnell und Ueli Beck
  • 2010: Hans Leutenegger
    Hans Leutenegger
    Hans Leutennegger 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....


Award: public preferred artists

  • 1974: Hazy Osterwald
  • 1975: Hans Gmür
    Hans Gmür
    Hans Gmür was a Swiss-German theatre author, director, composer and producer.He was born in Chur, Switzerland, and graduated from the University of Zürich. He died of complications of a back operation at Paraplegikerzentrum Nottwil in Nottwil, Switzerland. He leaves his wife, Erna, to whom he was...

     und Karl Suter
  • 1976: Peter, Sue & Marc
  • 1977: Kurt Felix
  • 1978: Ruedi Walter und Margrit Rainer
  • 1979: Kliby und Caroline
  • 1980: Pepe Lienhard
    Pepe Lienhard
    Pepe Lienhard, is a Swiss bandleader and musician.- Life :Already in school, Lienhard had begun a band with the name "The College Stompers". In university, he studied law, but broke off his studies in 1969 and founded a professional sextet with which he released numerous albums...

  • 1981: Emil
    Emil Steinberger
    Emil Steinberger is a Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor.He is well known as Emil in Switzerland and Germany for his acts on television in the 1970s and 1980s.- External links :* http://www.emil.ch...

  • 1982: Beni Thurnheer
  • 1983: Walter Roderer
  • 1984: Beny Rehmann
  • 1985: Cabaret Rotstift
  • 1986: Ruedi Walter
  • 1987: Ursula Schaeppi und Walter Andreas Müller
  • 1988: Walter Roderer
  • 1989: Furbaz
    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 early 1990s. They then reunited in 2004, and continue...

  • 1990: Peter Reber
  • 1991: Vreni und Rudi
  • 1992: Marcocello
  • 1993: Peach Weber
  • 1994: Birgit Steinegger
  • 1995: Fascht e Familie
  • 1996: DJ Bobo
    DJ Bobo
    Peter René Cipiriano Baumann , better known as DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 10 studio albums as well as a few compilation albums which have included his previous hits in a reworked format...

  • 1997: Schmirinskis
  • 1998: Gölä
    Gölä
    Marco Pfeuti , better known by his stage name of Gölä, is a popular Swiss rock musician performing mainly in Bernese German....

     und Band
  • 1999: Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.As a young child she was already singing songs for the Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song Das Feuer der Sehnsucht...

  • 2000: Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.As a young child she was already singing songs for the Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song Das Feuer der Sehnsucht...

  • 2001: Schmirinskis
  • 2002: Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.As a young child she was already singing songs for the Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song Das Feuer der Sehnsucht...

     und Florian Ast
  • 2003: Sven Epiney
    Sven Epiney
    Sven Epiney is a famous Swiss television host TV-moderator, radio moderator and editor, who works for SF DRS and DRS3 Television channels in Switzerland. He speaks German, French, English and Italian. He was the Swiss commentator for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and...

  • 2004: Roman Kilchsperger
  • 2005: Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.As a young child she was already singing songs for the Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song Das Feuer der Sehnsucht...

  • 2006: Stephanie Glaser
    Stephanie Glaser
    thumb|Stephanie Glaser in 2009Stephanie Glaser was one of Switzerland's most prominent stage, TV and film actresses, popular for her portrayal of down-to-earth, sympathetic characters.- Biography :...

  • 2007: Jodlerklub Wiesenberg
  • 2008: Oesch’s die Dritten
  • 2009: Cabaret Divertimento
  • 2010: Monique

Comedy/cabaret

  • 1994: Acapickels
  • 1995: Geschwister Pfister
  • 1996: Massimo Rocchi
  • 1997: Duo Fischbach
  • 1998: Marco Rima
  • 1999: Ursus & Nadeschkin
  • 2000: Flügzüg
  • 2001: Mölä und Stahli
  • 2002: Marco Rima
  • 2003: Lorenz Keiser
  • 2004: Andreas Thiel
  • 2005: Marco Rima
  • 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
    Mia Aegerter
    Mia Aegerter is a Swiss pop singer and actress. She grew up in a musical family, her mother being a guitar teacher and her father a drummer for a band. She became excited about music herself, playing guitar in her childhood and writing her own songs...

  • 2004: Baschi
  • 2005: Daniel Kandlbauer
    Daniel Kandlbauer
    Daniel Kandlbauer is a Swiss pop musician who achieved notoriety on the Swiss reality show MusicStars. Kandlbauer was one of the finalists of the show, and he performed songs on several of their successful singles and albums. Since the show's climax, he has released a single entitled "Maybe In...

  • 2006: Cornelia Bösch
  • 2007: Stefanie Heinzmann
    Stefanie Heinzmann
    Stefanie Fabienne Heinzmann is a Swiss soul and pop singer. She gained public interest in early 2008 when she won SSDSDSSWEMUGABRTLAD, a talent contest hosted in Stefan Raab's Late-Night-Show TV total on the German ProSieben network.Following her win, Heinzmann subsequently released her debut...

  • 2008: Sophie Hunger
    Sophie Hunger
    Sophie Hunger is a folk-pop-blues singer from Zurich.- Early life :Sophie Hunger grew up in Bern , London , Bonn and Zurich with two older siblings...

  • 2009: Lea Lu
  • 2010: Steff la Cheffe

Pop/Rock

  • 1999: Gotthard
    Gotthard (band)
    Gotthard is a Swiss hard rock/heavy metal band founded in Lugano by Steve Lee and Leo Leoni. Their last eleven albums have all reached number 1 in the Swiss album charts, making them one of the most successful Swiss acts ever....

  • 2000: Martin Schenkel
  • 2001: ?
  • 2002: Polo Hofer
  • 2003: -
  • 2004: Plüsch
  • 2005: Adrian Stern
  • 2006: Lovebugs
  • 2007: Stephan Eicher
    Stephan Eicher
    Stephan Eicher is a Swiss singer.His songs are sung in a variety of languages, including French, German, English, Italian, Swiss-German, and Romanche and sometimes he even uses different languages in the same piece.His success started in German-speaking countries in the 1980s when as part of the...

  • 2008: Bligg
    Bligg
    Bligg is a rapper from Zurich, Switzerland. His albums 0816 and Bart Aber Herzlich reached #1 on the Swiss charts; four of his other albums have peaked in the top 20....

  • 2009: Seven
  • 2010: Adrian Stern

Radio-, TV- and Filmproductions

  • 1994: Pingu
    Pingu
    Pingu is a British-Swiss stop-motion claymated television series created by Otmar Gutmann. The series was produced by The Pygos Group and Trickfilmstudio for Swiss television. The show is about a family of anthropomorphic penguins at the South Pole. The main character is the family's son and title...

     Film
  • 1995: Fascht e Familie 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 with Kurt Aeschbacher TV
  • 2003: Lüthi und Blanc (soap opera) TV
  • 2003: Achtung, fertig, Charlie! Film
  • 2004: Berg und Geist (3sat
    3sat
    3sat is the name of a public, advertising-free, television network in Central Europe. The programming is in German and is broadcast primarily within Germany, Austria and Switzerland .3sat was established for cultural...

    , [SF]) 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 Film

Actors on TV and film

  • 1994: Sue Matthys
  • 1995: Jörg Schneider
  • 1996: Mathias Gnädinger
  • 1997: Inigo Gallo
  • 1998: Bruno Ganz
    Bruno Ganz
    Bruno Ganz is a Swiss actor, known for his roles as Damiel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall.- Early life :Bruno Ganz was born in Zürich to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother. He had decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university...

  • 1999: Christian Kohlund
    Christian Kohlund
    Christian Kohlund is a Swiss actor and director.-Selected filmography:* Derrick - Season 5, Episode 2: "Tod eines Fans" * Derrick - Season 12, Episode 1: "Der Mann aus Antibes"...

  • 2000: Erich Vock
  • 2001: ?
  • 2002: Walter Andreas Müller
  • 2003: Esther Gemsch
  • 2004: Bruno Ganz
    Bruno Ganz
    Bruno Ganz is a Swiss actor, known for his roles as Damiel in Wings of Desire and Adolf Hitler in Downfall.- Early life :Bruno Ganz was born in Zürich to a Swiss mechanic father and a northern Italian mother. He had decided to pursue an acting career by the time he entered university...

  • 2005: Mike Müller
  • 2006: Stephanie Glaser
    Stephanie Glaser
    thumb|Stephanie Glaser in 2009Stephanie Glaser was one of Switzerland's most prominent stage, TV and film actresses, popular for her portrayal of down-to-earth, sympathetic characters.- Biography :...

  • 2007: Anatole Taubman
    Anatole Taubman
    Anatole Taubman is a Swiss actor, who has appeared in many films, such as a henchman in the latest James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace and as the monk Remigius in the TV miniseries The Pillars of the Earth.-References:...

  • 2008: Sabina Schneebeli
  • 2009: Erich Vock
  • 2010: Hanspeter Müller-Drossaart

Popular hits/ (folkmusic), popular swiss country music

  • 1994: Peter Reber
  • 1995: Carlo Brunner
  • 1996: Peter Zinsli
  • 1997: Leonard
  • 1998: Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.As a young child she was already singing songs for the Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song Das Feuer der Sehnsucht...

  • 1999: Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi
    Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.As a young child she was already singing songs for the Japanese tourists in Interlaken. With this musical background she won the German Grand Prix der Volksmusik in 1998 with the song Das Feuer der Sehnsucht...

  • 2000: Carlo Brunner
  • 2000: ?
  • 2002: Ruedi Rymann
  • 2003: Streichmusik Alder
  • 2004: Hans Aregger
  • 2005: Carlo Brunner
  • 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), (Cirkus)

  • 1994: Louis Knie
  • 1995: Dimitri
    Dimitri (clown)
    Dimitri . After changing his name, his official name is Jakob Dimitri. He is a well-known Swiss clown and mime.- Early life and training :...

  • 1996: Ursus & Nadeschkin
  • 1998: Karls kühne Gassenschau

Country/Blues/Roots

  • 1995: John Brack
    John Brack
    John Brack was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group.-Life:...

  • 2005: John Brack
    John Brack
    John Brack was an Australian painter, and a member of the Antipodeans group.-Life:...

  • 2008: Philipp Fankhauser

Writers for TV, TV-moderators

  • 1994: Charles Lewinsky
  • 1996: Viktor Giacobbo
    Viktor Giacobbo
    Viktor Giacobbo is a Swiss writer, comedian and actor.- Life :After school in Winterthur, he made an apprenticeship as a typesetter...

  • 1997: Beni Thurnheer

Pop

  • 1994: DJ BoBo
    DJ Bobo
    Peter René Cipiriano Baumann , better known as DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 10 studio albums as well as a few compilation albums which have included his previous hits in a reworked format...

  • 1995: Sina
  • 1996: Florian Ast
  • 1997: DJ BoBo
    DJ Bobo
    Peter René Cipiriano Baumann , better known as DJ BoBo, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, dancer and music producer. He has sold 14 million records worldwide and has released 10 studio albums as well as a few compilation albums which have included his previous hits in a reworked format...

  • 1998: Kisha
    Kisha
    Kisha can refer to:*Kisha clubs, journalists' cartels in Japan*Kisha Ford, former WNBA player*Kisha Snow, U.S. boxer*Kisha River in Russia...

  • 2003: Lunik

Rock

  • 1994: Züri West
    Züri West
    Züri West is one of Switzerland's best-known rock bands. The majority of their lyrics are written in Bernese German.The name is ironic and refers to Bern as merely being a place west of Zürich or as the westside of Zürich....

  • 1995: Polo Hofer
  • 1996: Gotthard
    Gotthard (band)
    Gotthard is a Swiss hard rock/heavy metal band founded in Lugano by Steve Lee and Leo Leoni. Their last eleven albums have all reached number 1 in the Swiss album charts, making them one of the most successful Swiss acts ever....

  • 1997: Gotthard
    Gotthard (band)
    Gotthard is a Swiss hard rock/heavy metal band founded in Lugano by Steve Lee and Leo Leoni. Their last eleven albums have all reached number 1 in the Swiss album charts, making them one of the most successful Swiss acts ever....

  • 1998: Gölä
    Gölä
    Marco Pfeuti , better known by his stage name of Gölä, is a popular Swiss rock musician performing mainly in Bernese German....

  • 2003: Patent Ochsner
    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 :* Büne Huber * Monic Mathys...


Popular hits / french "Chanson"

  • 1994: Dodo Hug
  • 1999: Toni Vescoli
  • 2006: ChueLee

Cirkus, Theater and Musical

  • 1994: Keep Cool
    Keep Cool
    Keep Cool may refer to:* Keep Cool , a 1997 Chinese black comedy directed by Zhang Yimou* Keep Cool , a German-made global warming board game...

  • 1995: Space Dream
  • 1998: Circus Monti
  • 2000: Circus Monti
  • 2006: Karls kühne Gassenschau
  • 2007: Ewigi Liebi
  • 2008: -
  • 2009: Die kleine Niederdorfoper
  • 2010: Dällebach Kari
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