The Swiss Grand Prix for Performing Arts/Hans Reinhart Ring 2024, worth CHF 100,000, is awarded to the Aargau actress and director Lilo Baur. Nine other prizes are awarded to artists, half of whom are from French-speaking Switzerland.
Lilo Baur, 66, works as a theatre and opera director in Switzerland and abroad, the Federal Office of Culture (FOC) said in a press release on Thursday. In 2020, she received the Molière for best director for Feydeau’s “La puce à l’oreille” at the Comédie-Française.
“Lilo Baur is a long-distance traveller,” said a member of the jury, Georges Grbic, director of the Benno Besson theatre in Yverdon. “She left Aargau to train in Paris, and it was later in England that she was awarded an acting prize.”
In Switzerland, she presented last year “Une journée particulier”, an adaptation of the film by Ettore Scola, at the Théâtre de Carouge. At the Lausanne Opera, she directed “Lakmé” by Léo Delibes in 2013 and the opera “Le Petit Prince” by Michaël Levinas in 2014. She is also a guest professor at the Manufacture in Lausanne.
Other Swiss Performing Arts Awards 2024
Nine other artists are rewarded with Swiss Performing Arts Awards, each worth 40,000 francs, including several from French-speaking Switzerland. Anne Delahaye (GE), has made a name for herself in many French-speaking productions for her acting talents. For example, she has worked with Massimo Furlan, Claire de Ribaupierre, the Cie Philippe Saire, Ruth Childs and Nicole Seiler.
Corinne Rochet and Nicholas Pettitla, who have been working to promote the next generation of contemporary dance talent for almost a quarter of a century, formed the Marchepied Cie (VD). It offers future dance professionals an important springboard by offering them a six-month commitment, complementing the offerings of traditional training institutions.
In 2014, actor and playwright Marius Schaffter, scenographer and visual artist Jérôme Stünzi and author, visual artist and scenographer Sarah André, aka André André, created the Geneva theatre collective Old Masters. Conceiving of theatrical performance as a total plastic work, they create universes with an unusual and radical aesthetic.
Philippe Olza (NE/BS), network expert, has been active since 1979, mainly in the field of dance, first as a performer himself, then as a producer and event organizer. In 2016, he was involved in an effective restructuring of the Association Danse Neuchâtel (ADN) with Nicole Seiler and has since then been programming a variety of events that put dance in the spotlight throughout the canton.
Adina Secretan (VD), playwright, choreographer, director and cultural mediator, has participated in several collective experiments, which she sometimes helped to launch. She is also committed to fair production conditions and adequate remuneration for cultural actors.
Four Alemannics awarded, including queer artist Ivy Monteiro
Other Swiss artists awarded are Petra Fischer (theatre, ZH/GR), Ursina Greuel (theatre, BS/ZH), Ueli Hirzel (circus, ZH) as well as the Zurich-based Afro-Brazilian queer artist Ivy Monteiro, considered the co-founder of the ballroom and voguing scenes in Switzerland.
The Swiss Grand Prix for Performing Arts/Hans Reinhart Ring is the most important distinction in the performing arts in Switzerland. Awarded by the OFC in cooperation with the Swiss Theatre Society, it rewards a personality or institution active in stage creation in Switzerland.
The awards will be presented on October 31, 2024 at the Casino Theater in Zug in the presence of Federal Councilor Ignazio Cassis.
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