New Swiss national anthem
The Schweizerische Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft (SGG) wants to create a new Swiss national anthem. Out of 208 competition entries, the best six were put to a public vote. Voting is open until May 15.
"I hope for a nationwide discussion about values that are important to us in Switzerland and that we therefore want to sing and hear in the future national anthem," says Jean-Daniel Gerber, President of the Swiss Society for the Common Good (SGG) and the person responsible for the anthem project.
According to the SGG, the text of the competition entries is based on the preamble to the Federal Constitution. The preamble contains central values such as democracy, diversity, freedom, peace and solidarity. A jury of 30 experts selected six entries from a total of 208 submissions. A section of the Swiss Youth Choir interpreted the six new anthems and will also perform the three best at the final.
From March 30 to May 15, 2015, the six new hymns will be available online at www.chymne.ch for the election. The contributions can be listened to and viewed in all four national languages (German: www.chymne.ch; français: www.hymnenational.ch; italiano: www.innonazionale.ch; rumantsch: www.imninaziunal.ch)
The first online vote will select the three finalists. These will be announced at the end of May and will enter the second online voting from June 8 to September 6.
On September 12, 2015, from 6.10 p.m. to 7.15 p.m., the public can watch the TV show Potzmusig can watch the final on SRF1 and choose the winning entry by text message and telephone. The votes from the second online voting and the final votes will be added together. The authors of the competition entries, who will remain anonymous up to this point, will be announced after the vote.
As soon as the winning entry has achieved the necessary popularity among the population, the relevant federal authorities will be asked to select the winning entry as the new national anthem.
The Swiss Society for the Common Good (SGG)which has been committed to a Switzerland of solidarity and cohesion between the language regions since 1810 and manages the Rütli, among other things, wants to use the new anthem text to promote Switzerland's core values and popularize the preamble, which forms the guiding principle of modern Switzerland.
A special page has been created for music teachers and school musicians:
