The one with 50’000 Swiss francs prize money for any art award of the city of Zurich this year Nik Bärtsch. The Jazz musicians for well over 15 years, nearly every Monday evening a concert in Zurich. Bärtsch is one of the most important exponents of the Swiss Jazz and a young Zurich-based musicians, an important Mentor, writes the city.

The Jazz musicians have developed continuously in recent years and most a very own musical language reflected, means in the message from Tuesday.

The award for special cultural merits – endowed with 20’000 Swiss francs – gives the city of Zurich this year, the publisher David Basler. This was a co-founder of the now alone on Comics specialized publishing house “Edition Modern”.

Basel have anchored with the magazine “Strapazin” the city of Zurich on the map of international comic creation, writes the city. His commitment to this culture of division, beyond the mainstream, have helped to shape a new German-language Comic-book Tradition. (SDA)

Created: 02.04.2019, 10:16 PM