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The Prix Walo is a Swiss award given for showbusiness.
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The Prix Walo is a Swiss award given for showbusiness.
In these categories the award is not given every year or is no longer awarded:
Francine Jordi is a Swiss pop singer.
Switzerland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 64 times since its debut at the first contest in 1956, missing only four contests because of being relegated due to poor results the previous year: 1995, 1999, 2001, and 2003. Switzerland hosted the inaugural contest in 1956 in Lugano, where it also won. The country claimed its second victory in 1988, 32 years after the first, and its third in 2024, 36 years after the second win. The Swiss participant broadcaster in the contest is the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation.
Hammer & Tongs is the pseudonym of British director and producer duo, promo and film director Garth Jennings and producer Nick Goldsmith, as well as the name of their production company. Best known for their work on music videos for Blur and Supergrass, Hammer & Tongs have moved on to directing movies, their debut being the 2005 film version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Thanks for the success of his debut feature, Jennings raised £3.5 million to produce Son of Rambow.
Martin Semmelrogge is a German actor, best known for his role as the comical Second Watch Officer in the film Das Boot. His character was based on the real life World War II submarine officer Werner Herrmann.
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Musikantenstadl is a live television entertainment program broadcast in the German language throughout Austria, Germany, and Switzerland. It features Austrian, Swiss, and German popular folk music, international pop and folk music as well as interviews and comedy. As a production of Eurovision, is co-produced by the Österreichischer Rundfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk and Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen. Aside from the live television broadcasts it also tours in Austria and Germany as live concerts. It is currently hosted by Andy Borg and its location of broadcast varies between towns in different regions in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland.
Stephanie Glaser was one of Switzerland's most prominent stage, TV and film actresses, popular for her portrayal of down-to-earth, sympathetic characters.
Mathias Gnädinger was a Swiss stage and film actor.
Gardi Hutter is a Swiss Clown-comedian, author, actress and Cabaret artist and a clown of the classical rule.
Jörg Schneider was a Swiss stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions. He gained great renownedness in the German-speaking area by numerous Kasperle, Pumuckl and fairytale-radio plays records and also adapted plays for the Swiss German language.
Fascht e Familie is a Swiss German language television comedy serial (sitcom) of the 1990s. It was filmed and produced at locations in Switzerland by Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen SRF.
Trudi Roth was a Swiss stage and film actress who starred in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.
Rudolf "Ruedi" Walter, was a Swiss comedian, actor and radio personality usually starring in Swiss German-language cinema and television and stage productions.
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Charles Lewinsky is a Swiss screenwriter and playwright, as well as a writer of novels and non-fiction, born and living in Zürich.
Inigo Gallo was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.
Ines Torelli was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage, voice and film actress starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.
Ursula Schaeppi or Ursula Schäppi is a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage, voice and film actress starring usually in Swiss German language stage productions and as voice actress in children's literature.
Margrit Läubli is a Swiss dancer, stage, television and film actress, comedian, cabarettist and radio personality, starring usually in Swiss German language productions.
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