Schwyz honors Heidy Weber-Wiget
The cantonal government of Schwyz is awarding the canton's 2022 Culture Prize to Heidy Weber-Wiget, who promotes culture in Schwyz. The prize, endowed with CHF 20,000, is the highest cultural award presented by the canton.
Among other things, Heidy Weber-Wiget helped to revive the Chlefele tradition when it almost fell asleep decades ago. She also initiated the two decades of New Year's concerts in the Seewner church. Among other things, she brought the "Zauberlaterne" cinema education program to Schwyz for children.
The canton writes in its media release that the cultural mediator and organizer's interest in and openness to art and culture was awakened from an early age. Her parents' business, the then Hotel Wolfsprung in Brunnen, was a favorite haunt of local artists. The Schwyz writer Meinrad Inglin, for example, was a regular visitor to the hospitable establishment on Axenstrasse.
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