“Many in the audience think: My funny uncle can do that too, but folk theatre is more than that,” says Beat Schlatter. (People 2026, by Valentin Hehli) - Swiss Press Award

“Many in the audience think: My funny uncle can do that too, but folk theatre is more than that,” says Beat Schlatter.

Valentin Hehli

Portraits of Beat Schlatter in Zurich's Niederdorf district: The author, together with Christoph Fellmann, wrote a boulevard comedy about a harmless fairytale stage that becomes a hub for the illegal fur trade. He's still annoyed that the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) refused to lend him professional rolling stock for the filming of the box-office hit "Bon Schuur Ticino."