Prix Courage
The Prix Courage is an award given by the Swiss magazine Observer since 1997.
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With the award, the magazine wants to honor and promote personalities “who fight fearlessly and with devotion for an idea - in favor of an open, solidary and fair Switzerland”. The purpose of the award is to make society aware of them and recognize their commitment. Prize winners can be individuals or organizations who have distinguished themselves through prolonged commitment or special activities.
jury
A jury made up of previous winners and the observer's readership have been deciding on the award of the prize, which is endowed with CHF 15,000, since 2014 . The jury was chaired by Franz Hohler until 2011 . From 2012 to 2017 the jury was chaired by Pascale Bruderer Wyss . Susanne Hochuli has been President since 2018 .
Award winners
year | price | Name (s) | Reason |
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1997 | Audience award | Angela Ohno and Hanspeter Heise | Uncovering the Zurich sewage sludge affair, which both cost their jobs at the city of Zurich |
1998 | Audience award | Ruth Ramstein | for her commitment to helping students sexually assaulted by a teacher |
1999 | Audience award | Diego Barberis | for rescuing two children from a burning car at personal risk |
2000 | Audience award | Herbert Haag | because of his commitment "against frozen church dogmas" |
2002 | Audience award | Malica Skrijelj | because of her brave and tenacious fight against wage discrimination and for equality between men and women |
2003 | Audience award | Marcus Levy and Albert Pfister | because of the rescue of three people. Levy flew his helicopter despite the thick fog, a daring undertaking even with good local knowledge. Pfister had himself tied to this helicopter with a rope in order to rescue those trapped by the mud. |
2003 | Jury Prize | Christian Sauter | Sauter uncovered a title fraud at the University Hospital Zurich and received a pension cut for it |
2004 | Audience award | Doris Vetsch and Anita Chaaban | for the activity as initiators of the popular initiative for "lifelong custody for non-treatable, extremely dangerous sexual and violent offenders" |
2004 | Jury Prize | Naser Zubaku and Fritz Luchsinger | for help in traffic |
2005 | Audience award | Stephan Schmutz | for long-term personal help for tsunami victims of the 2004 Indian Ocean seaquake |
2005 | Jury Prize | Lea Saskia Laasner | for reporting on a sect that she herself had left |
2006 | Audience award | Daniel Bürkli | for his 13-year-old student, presumably life-saving help to a man who was stabbed at Horgen train station |
2006 | Jury Prize | Lukas Klauser and Philip Lechner | because of her insistence on the establishment of protective measures after her asbestos discovery on a construction site of the Paul Scherrer Institute |
2007 | Audience award | Caroline Kramer | for the revelation that the Federal Office of Public Health wanted to use taxpayers' money to fight an initiative against complementary medicine that Parliament had not yet decided on at the time. |
2007 | Jury Prize | Paolo Dibartolo | because he had rushed to the aid of a woman who was attacked by a man with a knife. |
2008 | Audience award | Monika Schmid | who criticized the Catholic Church for its reluctance to act against sexually abusing priests in the Sunday Word |
2008 | Jury Prize | Ueli Steck and Simon Anthamatten | because the two alpinists in Nepal risked their lives when they rushed to the aid of other mountaineers |
2009 | Audience award | Damiano Saitta | because of his rescue of a girl from the Aare |
2009 | Jury Prize | Nun Marie-Rose Genoud | because of their ten-year struggle against the Valais cantonal government, which deducted asylum seekers ten percent from their wages every month - as early "debt repayment", they should become dependent on social assistance one day. This although the federal government is already collecting an amount to reimburse welfare benefits |
2010 | Audience award | Margrit Zopfi and Esther Wyler | because they had publicized the irregularities in Zurich's social welfare and thus triggered a heated debate about social welfare abuses |
2010 | Jury Prize | Marc Hofmann | because the person suffering from autism saved a couple from a gang of thugs and was beaten himself ready for hospital |
2011 | Audience award | Richard Lehner and Daniel Aufdenblatten | because as helicopter pilots in the Himalayas they rushed to the aid of a group of mountaineers in need. |
2011 | Jury Prize | Bernard Hengy, Michèle Christe, Raoul Challet and Jean-Marc Christe | due to the prevention of the construction of an autotest route , which should be made ready for approval by incorrect entries and incorrect information to the citizens. |
2012 | Audience award | Rolf Sigg | who, as pastor and co-founder of Exit, stands for lived charity without compromise. |
2012 | Jury Prize | Shqiprim Olluri, Dines Dzaferi and Ramon Amrhein | because of the courageous rescue of a drowning man from the Rhine . |
2013 | Audience award | Kurt Marti | "The journalist named names and unflinchingly exposed abuse of power, party affiliation and corruption in the left-wing newspaper Rote Anneliese ." |
2013 | Jury Prize | Walter Emmisberger , Ursula Biondi, Jean-Louis Claude and Bernadette Gächter | “As children and adolescents, all four were victims of arbitrary authority. Their individual fates are examples of immense personal suffering. " |
2014 | "Next Generation" award | Arina Binz and Fitore Kastrati | Saved classmate from suicide. |
2014 | Prix Courage | Adrian Roggensinger | Rescued elderly woman from a moving train. |
2015 | "Next Generation" award | Franziska Gartenmann and Lara Twerenbold | Supported needy children in Laos. |
2015 | Prix Courage | Erna Niedermann | Rescued two young women from a raging river. |
2016 | Prix Courage | Michael Räber | Helped stranded refugees on Lesbos. |
2017 | Prix Courage | Remo Schmid | Saved a woman from a violent criminal. |
2017 | Prix Courage Lifetime Award | Ernst Sieber | Founder of the social works Pastor Sieber , lifelong commitment to marginalized people. |
2018 | Prix Courage | Natalie Urwyler | Fought for the equality of women in hospitals for years. |
2018 | Prix Courage Lifetime Award | Hannes Schmid | Founder of the Smiling Gecko aid organization in Cambodia |
2019 | Prix Courage | Iluska Grass | Protected an Orthodox Jew from neo-Nazis. |
2019 | Prix Courage Lifetime Award | Carla del Ponte | Swiss criminal prosecutor and diplomat. She fought all her life to ensure that crimes did not go unpunished, u. a. as chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague and as a member of a UNHCHR commission investigating human rights violations in the Syrian civil war. |
Web links
- Prix Courage , on the observer's website
Individual evidence
- ↑ The idea of the Prix Courage
- ↑ Prix Courage: "You should honor exceptional people every day" - observer. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Prix Courage 2013 - award ceremony