Welti Prize
The Prize of the Welti Foundation for Drama (abbreviated Welti Prize ) is a Swiss literary prize , which is named after the Swiss Friedrich Emil Welti (1857-1940). It is awarded after the announcement.
history
In 1891 Welti donated CHF 20,000 to the Bern municipal council. Every three years, the interest was to be used to award a prize for a national theater play that had been created in previous years. In 1923 he changed the foundation regulations: the Swiss Schiller Foundation was entrusted with the selection of the award winners. The city council of Bern made the prize money available on the basis of this proposal. In 1939 and 1940, a total of CHF 30,000 was added through further donations or the Welti legacy.
The competition is open to Swiss nationals; the submitted pieces can be written in all four national languages or in dialect.
The last award ceremony took place in 2003 with the participation of the Swiss Schiller Foundation. New statutes are being drawn up for the Welti Foundation for Drama .
“From the remaining resources of the Welti Fund of around 40,000 francs”, four Welti prizes for the drama of 10,000 francs each are to be awarded from 2017 to 2020.
Prize winner since 1923
- 2017 Andri Beyeler
- 2007 Klaus Händl for Dark Luring World and Olivier Chiacchiari for La mère et l'enfant se portent bien
- 2003 Guy Krneta for Life is far too short to drink open wines , Beat Sterchi for Nach Addis Abeba and Alberto Nessi for Prima di notte
- 2000 Award suspended
- 1997 Stephan Honegger for Rolf ou le crépuscule de l'ange
- 1994 Matthias Zschokke for Der rich Freund
- 1991 Michael Zochow for three stars above the canopy
- 1988 no 1st prize; 2nd prize: Frank Geerk for Der Genetiker ; 3rd prize: René Regenass for Tango d'amore
- 1985 Maja Beutler for Das Marmelspiel , EY Meyer for Das System
- 1982 Claude Cueni for No Price No Diligence , Kurt Hutterli for Survival
- 1979 Heinz Stalder for Pestalozzi
- 1976 Hansjörg Schneider for The Inventor
- 1973 Ulrich Schenker for handball
- 1970 Herbert Meier for raven games
- 1967 Peter Lotar for The Death of the President
- 1964 Award suspended
- 1961 Louis Gaulis for Capitaine Karagheuz
- 1957 Award suspended
- 1954 Marcel Gero for Christopher Marlowe's end
- 1951 Maurice Zermatten for Isabelle de Chevron
- 1948 Friedrich Dürrenmatt for It is written
- 1945 Max Frisch for Santa Cruz
- 1942 René Morax for Job le vigneron
- 1939 Alfred Gehri for Sixième Etage
- 1936 Caesar of Arx for betraying Novara
- 1933 Hans Mühlestein for people without God
- 1930 Caesar von Arx for The Story of General Johann August Suter
- 1927 Georges Oltramare for Don Juan ou la solitude
- 1924 no award
literature
- Swiss Schiller Foundation 1905–2005. Volume 1: Festschrift. Volume 2: Lists of Awards. Editing by Estelle Schiltknecht and Ernst Nef, o. O. (Zurich), o. J. (2005).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The City of Bern's Literature Commission awards awards , bern.ch, August 31, 2017, accessed on January 26, 2019