The Pfister Siblings

The Pfister Siblings (Die Geschwister Pfister) is a Swiss-German comedy band founded in Berlin in the early 1990s. Their music incorporates elements of folk, pop, bossa nova, vaudeville, swing, and yodeling. In 2022, Mannschraft Magazin described them as a "queer music cabaret trio."

Formation
In the 1990s, actors Christopher Marti, Tobias Bonn, Max Gertsch, and Lilian Naef formed the group at the Schiller Theater. They created fictional personas as 4 orphan siblings from Zermatt, Switzerland.

Music
In 2009, they released In The Clinic, which includes a cover of Esther & Abi Ofarim's 1968 novelty single, "Cinderella Rockefella," performed by two men. The album also includes an a cappella version of "Spider Pig," a brief song sung by Homer Simpson in 2007 film The Simpsons Movie, which in turn is a parody of the Spider-Man theme song.

Awards and legacy
The group was awarded Berliner Kritikerpreis in 1992. In 1993, they won the Salzburger Stier Award, an annual award for "the best cabaret artists and satirists from German-speaking countries."

In 1995, they won the Prix Walo, a Swiss show business award sometimes referred to as a "Swiss Oscar."

They were portrayed in the 1995 documentary Magic Matterhorn.

In 2014, the group won the B.Z.-Kulturpreis.

The 2021 Historical Dictionary of Berlin names The Pfister Siblings as one of the city's most important performers.

In Spring 2022, the original four members reunited to perform again, for the first time in 30 years. The Berliner Morgenpost claimed it was "almost like ABBA."

In 2022, they were awarded the Swiss Culture Prize.