Central Swiss Culture Prize

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The Central Switzerland Culture Prize is a culture prize awarded by the Central Switzerland Culture Foundation, which was founded in 1951 . It has been awarded regularly, annually since 1974, and has been endowed with CHF 20,000 since 1995 and most recently with CHF 25,000.

Award

The Board of Trustees consists of seven members, of which the government of the canton of Lucerne two, the governments of the cantons of Uri , Schwyz , Obwalden , Nidwalden and train each delegate a member. The office is the Department of Culture and Youth Promotion of the Canton of Lucerne. The prize, which has been awarded annually since 1953 and since 1974, honors significant cultural achievements from the area of ​​Central Switzerland. According to the statute of the foundation, the award can be given as a literature prize and a culture prize. Prize winners are usually individuals, but in exceptional cases the prize has also been awarded to institutions (most recently to the Choral Schola of Einsiedeln Abbey in 1984).

Literature Prize

It is an award for outstanding literary achievements, be it for a specific work or for the entire oeuvre of an author. The prize can be awarded to writers who are entitled to reside in central Switzerland or who have lived there for at least five years.

Culture award

It is an award for significant scientific or cultural achievements that have an area of ​​nature or the intellectual life of central Switzerland as their subject. Under this condition, the prize can be awarded regardless of home town or place of residence. The Central Switzerland Culture Prize can also be awarded to authors of general, scientific or cultural works if they are entitled to reside in Central Switzerland or have lived for ten years and if their achievements are particularly outstanding.

meaning

Along with the Prix ​​Walo, the Central Switzerland Culture Prize is the most important cross-disciplinary prize awarded in Switzerland. The previous award covers practically the entire spectrum of cultural and scientific work. The award went to theologians, humanities and natural scientists, painters, sculptors, architects and photographers, musicians, theater and film-makers of both sexes. The best-known previous winners are the theologians Hans Urs von Balthasar (1956) and Hans Küng (1989), the writers Meinrad Inglin (1953) and Thomas Hürlimann (1992), the Germanist and writer Peter von Matt (1995) and the filmmaker Fredi M Murer (1997).

Award winners

(*) awarded as a literature prize

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frank Nager is dead. In: Luzerner Zeitung , February 3, 2018