Prix ​​Courage

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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
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

Individual evidence

  1. The idea of ​​the Prix Courage
  2. Prix ​​Courage: "You should honor exceptional people every day" - observer. Retrieved September 25, 2018 .
  3. a b Prix ​​Courage 2013 - award ceremony