Swiss Small Art Prize
The Swiss Cabaret Prize goes back to the initiative of the Kultursoufflé Thun association and was first awarded in 1993 under the name "Goldener Tunfisch". KTV ATP later took over the award and has been awarding it under its name ever since. The prize honors a person or a group for their entire work. In 2015 the prize was included in the Swiss Theater Awards and is now being awarded by the Federal Office of Culture . It is endowed with CHF 30,000 for an individual and CHF 50,000 for a group. A nomination committee of the KTV ATP proposes three nominees to the Federal Jury for Theater. The theater jury will select the main prize from these. The nominations are each endowed with CHF 5,000. The Swiss Cabaret Prize is announced and awarded at the opening of the Swiss Artists' Exchange in Thun.
Award winners
- 1993: Mark Wetter
- 1994: Tandem Tinta Blu (Cornelia Montani, Joe Sebastian Fenner)
- 1995: Michael von der Heide
- 1996: Bubble town ( Erika Stucky , Marco Raoult, Marc Burgauer)
- 1997: voice horn ( Christian Zehnder , Balthasar Streiff )
- 1998: Thierry Romanens
- 1999: Ursus & Nadeschkin (Urs Wehrli, Nadja Sieger) and Pfannestil Chammer Sexdeet (Res Wepfer, Peter Rinderknecht, Simon Hostettler)
- 2000: Markus Zohner Theater Compagnie ( Markus Zohner , Patrizia Barbuiani )
- 2001: Musique Simili (Line Loddo, Juliette Du Pasquier, Marc Hänsenberger, Roland Kneubühler)
- 2002: Ferruccio Cainero
- 2003: Alex Porter
- 2004: Duo Jean Claude Sassine , musician from Solothurn and Andreas Thiel , satirist from Bern
- 2005: Gardi Hutter , world-famous Swiss-German clowner
- 2006: Peter Wyssbrod
- 2007: Joachim Rittmeyer , cabaret artist
- 2008: Massimo Rocchi and Daniele Finzi Pasca
- 2009: Yann Lambiel
- 2010: Ueli Bichsel , actor, clown and stage artist
- 2011: Karl's kühne Gassenschau , theater group
- 2012: Pippo Pollina , Italian Cantautore, lives in Zurich
- 2013: Eugénie Rebetez , dancer & choreographer, lives in Zurich
- 2014: Jürg Kienberger , musician, cabaret artist, actor and singer
- 2015: Pedro Lenz
- 2016: Compagnia Baccalà
- 2017: beautiful & good
- 2018: Les Petits Chanteurs à la Gueule de Bois
- 2019: Knuth and Tucek , cabaret home film theater
Swiss innovation award
From 2001 to 2014, KTV ATP, with the support of Migros Culture Percentage, awarded the Swiss Innovation Prize for innovative work in the field of cabaret. As of 2015, the prize will no longer be awarded. In its place, new models for promoting young talent are being developed.
Prize winners of the Swiss Innovation Prize:
- 2001: La satire continue with «Zytdruck» (Ueli Ackermann, Jost Auf der Maur, Aernschd Born, Daniel Buser, Myrtha Hürbi, Silvia Jost, Sandra Moser, Jürg Seiberth, Roland Suter, Josef Zindel)
- 2002: Geholten chairs with "Watching God" (Gerhard Meister and Andres Lutz)
- 2003: Compagnie Gloria rigole with "Francis et les Grandes Dames - A piece of folklore" (Simon Desbordes, Michèle Gurtner, Léopold Rabus, Fiamma-Maria Camesi)
- 2004: Without Rolf, with the “margin of the sheet”, a piece of paper that takes up an entire evening (Christof Wolfisberg and Jonas Anderhub)
- 2005: Stahlbergerheuss with "Music & Mechanics" (Manuel Stahlberger, Stefan Heuss)
- 2006: Theater Extrapol with "Hello, my name is Hans" (Laure Donzé, Camille Rebetez, Nicole Grédy, Martine Corbat, Lionel Frésard, Diego Todeschini, Lucienne Olgiati, Antoine Kauffmann, Jérôme Bueche, Coline Vergez)
- 2007: Volk & Glory with «Rest.Glück» (Christina Volk, Ursina Gregori)
- 2008: Martin Zimmermann, choreographer, and Dimitri de Perrot, musician
- 2009: Monique Schnyder Visual Theater
- 2010: Martin O. , voice acrobat
- 2011: Kathrin Bosshard, Theater Fleisch + Pappe
- 2012: Massimo Furlan
- 2013: Circus Monti
- 2014: Tr'espace under the direction of Roman Müller with «ArbeiT»