Nestroy Theatre Prize

Last updated

The Nestroy Theatre Prize is an Austrian theatre award named after the poet Johann Nestroy. [1] In 2000, the city of Vienna decided to combine two less noticed theatre awards: the Kainz Medal and the Nestroy Ring for Viennese Satire. [1] The prize honours outstanding achievements at the Viennese and other Austrian theatres. [2] The prize has been awarded annually in eight up to fourteen categories. Its ceremony is held in Vienna and broadcast live on national television. [3]

Contents

Categories

Recipients best direction

Simon Stone at the Nestroy Theatre Awards 2015 (Ronacher, Vienna, Austria) Simon Stone Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2015.jpg
Simon Stone at the Nestroy Theatre Awards 2015 (Ronacher, Vienna, Austria)
YearRecipientProductionAuthor
2000 Luc Bondy Die Möwe (The Seagull) Anton Chekhov
2001 Peter Zadek Rosmersholm Henrik Ibsen
2002 Michael Schottenberg Der Talisman Johann Nestroy
2003 Andrea Breth Emilia Galotti Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
2004 Stephan Kimmig Das goldene Vlies (The Golden Fleece) Franz Grillparzer
2005 Christoph Marthaler Schutz vor der Zukunft
2006 Karin Beier Kleinbürger (The Philistines) Maxim Gorky
2007 Grzegorz Jarzyna Medea
2008 Stefan Bachmann Verbrennungen (Incendies) Wajdi Mouawad
2009 Martin Kušej Der Weibsteufel Karl Schönherr
2010 Alvis Hermanis Eine Familie (August: Osage County) Tracy Letts
2011Andrea BrethZwischenfälle
2012 Stephanie Mohr Woyzeck & The Tiger Lillies Georg Büchner
2013 Michael Thalheimer Elektra Hugo von Hofmannsthal
2014 Krystian Lupa [4] Holzfällen (Woodcutters) Thomas Bernhard
2015 Simon Stone John Gabriel Borkman Henrik Ibsen
2016Andrea BrethDiese Geschichte von Ihnen (This Story of Yours) John Hopkins
2017 Elmar Goerden  [ de ]Stage version of Die Verdammten (The Damned) Luchino Visconti
2018 Dušan David Pařízek Vor Sonnenaufgang (Before Sunrise) Ewald Palmetshofer after Gerhart Hauptmann
2019 Johan Simons Woyzeck Georg Büchner
2020 Florentina Holzinger  [ de ]TANZ. Eine sylphidische Träumerei in Stunts
2021 Barbara Frey  [ de ]Automatenbüfett

Recipients best actress

Actress Regina Fritsch, honored as 'Best Actress' at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008 (Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna) Regina Fritsch Nestroy-Theaterpreis2008.jpg
Actress Regina Fritsch, honored as 'Best Actress' at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008 (Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna)
JahrActressProductionRole
2000 Birgit Doll Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf? Martha
2001 Judith Engel BashSue/Die Frau
2002 Ulli Maier Der Mann ohne EigenschaftenAgathe
2003 Maria Happel Die Zeit der PlancksMaria
2004 Birgit Minichmayr [5] Das goldene VliesMedea
2005 Sunnyi Melles Geschichten aus dem Wiener WaldValerie
2006 Edith Clever SchlafDie ältere Frau
2007 Sylvie Rohrer Medea. A project by Grzegorz Jarzyna & Über TiereMedea, Monolog
2008 Regina Fritsch VerbrennungenNawal
2009Birgit Minichmayr [6] Der WeibsteufelWeib
2010 Kirsten Dene Eine FamilieViolet Weston
2011 Sarah Viktoria Frick StallerhofBeppi
2012 Dörte Lyssewski Endstation Sehnsucht (A Streetcar Named Desire)Blanche DuBois
2013 Christiane von Poelnitz Elektra (Hofmannsthal)Elektra
2014 Nicole Heesters Vor dem RuhestandVera
2015 Elisabeth Orth die unverheirateteDie Alte
2016 Sona MacDonald Fräulein Julie & Blue MoonJulie, Sie
2017 Andrea Jonasson  [ de ]Stage version of The Damned Sophie von Essenbeck
2018 Caroline Peters [7] Hotel Strindbergmultiple roles
2019 Steffi Krautz Endstation SehnsuchtBlanche DuBois
2020Caroline PetersSchwarzwasser
2021 Lina Beckmann [8] Richard the Kid & the KingRichard

Recipients best actor

Martin Wuttke at the award ceremony of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2010 in the Burgtheater in Vienna Nestroy 2010 (43) Martin Wuttke.jpg
Martin Wuttke at the award ceremony of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2010 in the Burgtheater in Vienna
YearActorProductionRole
2000 Gert Voss Die Möwe Trigorin
2001 Sven-Eric Bechtolf Drei Mal LebenHubert Finidori
2002Sven-Eric BechtolfDas weite LandHofreiter
2003 Markus Hering ChorphantasieConductor
2004 Toni Slama AutomatenbüffetAdam
2005 Michael Maertens König Ottokars Glück und EndeRudolf von Habsburg
Nicholas Ofczarek Zu ebener Erde und erster Stock, König Ottokars Glück und EndeJohann, Zawisch
2006Nicholas OfczarekHöllenangstWendelin
2007 Bernhard Schir Das FestChristian
2008Markus HeringVerbrennungen, Freier Fall, Pool (Kein Wasser)Hermile, Erich, C
2009 André Jung Das letzte Band / Bis dass der Tag euch scheidet oder Eine Frage des LichtsKrapp
2010 Martin Wuttke Das Begräbnis & Peking OpelChristian
2011 Max Mayer Grillenparz & Bruno Schulz: MessiasHunter called Fischer, multiple roles
2012 Joachim Meyerhoff Die Kommune
2013 Gregor Bloéb Jägerstätter (Mitterer)Franz Jägerstätter
2014 August Diehl Hamlet Hamlet
2015Martin Wuttke John Gabriel Borkman John Gabriel Borkman
2016 Rainer Galke Alte Meister Irrsigler
2017Joachim MeyerhoffDie Welt im Rücken
2018 Peter Simonischek The Who and the WhatAfzal
2019 Steven Scharf Medea (Simon Stone) and Woyzeck Lucas and Franz Woyzeck
2020 Franz Pätzold Die BakchenDionysos
2021 Michael Maertens [8] Der LeichenverbrennerKarel Kopfrkingl

Recipients best play – authors prize

Playwright Gert Jonke (r.) and actor Andre Pohl (l.) at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008 (Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna) Gert Jonke und Andre Pohl Nestroy-Theaterpreis2008.jpg
Playwright Gert Jonke (r.) and actor André Pohl (l.) at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008 (Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna)
YearPlayAuthor
2000Der Name Jon Fosse
2001Die Unsichtbare. Tirade an drei Stränden Christoph Ransmayr
2002Push up 1 – 3 Roland Schimmelpfennig
2003Chorphantasie Gert Jonke
2004Die Ziege oder Wer ist Sylvia? (The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) Edward Albee
2005Hunt oder Der totale Februar Franzobel
2006Die versunkene Kathedrale (The Sunken Cathedral)Gert Jonke
2007Das purpurne Muttermal René Pollesch
2008Freier FallGert Jonke
2009Besuch bei dem Vater (Visit at the Father)Roland Schimmelpfennig
2010worst case Kathrin Röggla
2011Immer noch Sturm (Storm Still) Peter Handke
2012Geister in Princeton (Ghosts in Princeton) Daniel Kehlmann
2013Schatten (Euridyke sagt) (Shadow (Eurydice Says)) Elfriede Jelinek
2014Die Ereignisse (The Events) David Greig
2015Die lächerliche Finsternis Wolfram Lotz
2016Lost and Found Yael Renan
2017Geächtet (Disgraced) Ayad Akhtar
2018jedermann (stirbt) Ferdinand Schmalz
2019Hass-Triptychon – Wege aus der Krise (Hate Triptych – Ways out of the crisis) Sibylle Berg
2020SchwarzwasserElfriede Jelinek
2021Rand Miroslava Svolikova

Recipients lifetime achievement

Ulrike Kaufmann and Erwin Piplits at the award ceremony of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2010 in the Burgtheater in Vienna Nestroy 2010 (37) Ulrike Kaufmann, Erwin Piplits, Karl Markovics, Peter Simonischek.jpg
Ulrike Kaufmann and Erwin Piplits at the award ceremony of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2010 in the Burgtheater in Vienna
YearRecipientLaudator
2000 Otto Schenk Sunnyi Melles
2001 George Tabori Angelica Domröse
2002 Claus Peymann [9] André Heller
2003 Gusti Wolf Michael Heltau
2004 Hans Gratzer Michael Schottenberg
2005 Michael Heltau Klaus Bachler
2006 Walter Schmidinger Klaus Maria Brandauer
2007 Hilde Sochor Paulus Manker
2008 Peter Zadek Matthias Matussek
2009 Otto Tausig Gerhard Klingenberg
2010 Ulrike Kaufmann and Erwin Piplits Karl Markovics
2011 Peter Turrini Kirsten Dene, text by Elfriede Jelinek
2012 Karlheinz Hackl Heinz Marecek
2013 Luc Bondy Johanna Wokalek
2014 Klaus Maria Brandauer István Szabó
2015 Achim Freyer Hermann Beil
2016 Frank Castorf Jasna Fritzi Bauer
2017 Kirsten Dene [10] Michael Maertens
2018 Peter Handke [7] [3] Klaus Maria Brandauer
2019 Andrea Breth Roland Koch  [ de ]
2020 Christoph Marthaler
2021 Elfriede Jelinek

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Johann Nestroy</span> Austrian playwright, actor and singer

Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath. He participated in the 1848 revolutions and his work reflects the new liberal spirit then spreading throughout Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wiener Stadthalle</span> Multi-purpose indoor arena and convention center

Wiener Stadthalle is a multi-purpose indoor arena and convention center located in the 15th district of Vienna, Austria. Austrian architect Roland Rainer designed the original halls which were constructed between 1953 and 1958, and later expanded in 1974, 1994 and 2006. The main hall, a multi-purpose venue, is Austria's largest indoor arena with a seating capacity of approximately 16,152 people.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Diagonale</span> Annual film festival held in Graz, Austria

The Diagonale is a film festival that takes place every March in Graz, Austria.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Birgit Minichmayr</span> Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria

Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress born in Linz, Austria. She studied drama at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. For her work in Maren Ade's film Everyone Else she won Silver Bear for Best Actress at 59th Berlin International Film Festival. She is the only Austrian actress to win this award in history of the festival and the first Austrian actress to win best actress award at a major European film festival since 1956. She worked with several major European directors including Michael Haneke, Tom Tykwer and Jessica Hausner.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lukas Beck</span> Austrian photographer

Lukas Beck is an Austrian photographer who specialises in music and theatre.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Friederike Mayröcker</span> Austrian writer (1924–2021)

Friederike Mayröcker was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German. Her work, inspired by art, music, literature and everyday life, appeared as "novel and also dense text formations, often described as 'magical'." According to The New York Times, her work was "formally inventive, much of it exploiting the imaginative potential of language to capture the minutiae of daily life, the natural world, love and grief".

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carltheater</span>

The Carltheater was a theatre in Vienna. It was in the suburbs in Leopoldstadt at Praterstraße 31.

The Karl Renner Prize, established on the occasion of the Austrian Federal President Karl Renner’s 80th birthday by the city of Vienna, is awarded to individuals or groups in recognition of merits for Vienna and Austria in cultural, social as well as economical concerns, acknowledged on a national or international level. Endowed with 43,600 euro, the prize is currently given to a maximum of six nominees every three years.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kathrin Röggla</span> Austrian author and playwright (born 1971)

Kathrin Röggla is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg, and lives in Berlin since 1992. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, dramas and radio plays. She has won a long range of awards for her literary works.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Schauspielhaus Wien</span> Theatre in Vienna, Austria

Schauspielhaus Wien is a theatre in Vienna, Austria, located at 19 Porzellangasse in the 9th District of Vienna (Alsergrund).

Preis der Stadt Wien für Geisteswissenschaften or Prize of the City of Vienna for the Humanities is a prize awarded by the city of Vienna, Austria, awarded annually since 1947 for outstanding contributions in the humanities. It is worth 10,000 Euros to the winner.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dušan David Pařízek</span> Czech theatre director

Dušan David Pařízek is a Czech theatre director, mostly working in German-speaking countries.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julya Rabinowich</span>

Julya Rabinowich (Russian: Юля Борисовна Рабинович; born 1970 in Leningrad, is an Austrian author, playwright, painter and translator. In 1977 her family emigrated to Vienna, a move in which she describes herself as having been “uprooted and re-potted.”

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Renée Schroeder</span> Austrian researcher and university professor

Renée Schroeder is an Austrian researcher and university professor at the Department of Biochemistry at the Max F. Perutz Laboratories of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joachim Meyerhoff</span> German actor, director, and writer (born 1967)

Joachim Philipp Maria Meyerhoff is a German actor, director, and writer.

Brigitte Swoboda was an Austrian actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">The Beer Party (Austria)</span> Political party in Austria

The Beer Party is an Austrian minor party and satirical party. Founded in 2014, it was originally known as the Beer Party of Austria and used the corresponding abbreviation BPÖ until its renaming in 2020. The party's activity is confined to Vienna, where BIER first appeared on ballots in the 2019 Austrian legislative election and appeared again in the 2020 Viennese state election. As of 2020, it has been unable to amass the votes required for representation in the National Council, Federal Council, or the Landtage, claiming 0.6% of Viennese votes in 2019 and 1.8% in 2020. However, the party was able to win mandates in 11 of Vienna's districts. The party is organized purely at the federal level without state parties.

Birgit Doll was an Austrian actress of stage, screen and television and theatre director. She made her professional theatre debut at the age of 20 and won the Kainz Medal in 1992 for her performance of Libussa and the Nestroy Theatre Prize in 2000 for portraying Martha in Edward Albee's Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf. Doll earned the Best Actress Award at the 1979 Bavarian Film Awards and the Best Actress Award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1980 for her role as Marianne of the film Tales from the Vienna Woods.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Elfriede Hammerl</span> Austrian journalist

Elfriede Hammerl is an Austrian journalist and writer from Gumpoldskirchen, near Vienna.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicolas Mahler</span> Austrian cartoonist

Nicolas Mahler is an Austrian cartoonist and illustrator. Die Zeit, NZZ am Sonntag, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung and Titanic print his comics. He is known for his comics Flaschko and Kratochvil and for his literary adaptations in comic form. His comics have been adapted into films and theatre plays. He was awarded the Max & Moritz Prize and the Preis der Literaturhäuser.

References

  1. 1 2 Czeike, Felix (9 September 2000). "Johann-Nestroy-Theaterpreis". Wien Geschichte Wiki (in German). Vienna: Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  2. "Nestroy – Der Preis". Nestroy Preis. Vienna: Wiener Bühnenverein. 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  3. 1 2 Jarolin, Peter (17 November 2018). "Nestroy 2018: Schauspiel-Preise für Peters, Simonischek, Lyssewski". Kurier (in German). Vienna. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  4. Affenzeller, Margarete (15 December 2014). "Ein bisschen Pfeffer für das polnische Theater". Der Standard . Vienna. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  5. ""Nestroy"-Preis an Toni Slama und Birgit Minichmayr". Der Standard (in German). Vienna. 21 November 2004. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  6. "Nestroy: Birgit Minichmayr räumt doppelt ab". Die Presse (in German). Vienna. 12 October 2009. Archived from the original on 13 October 2019. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  7. 1 2 "Peters und Simonischek erhalten Nestroy als beste Schauspieler". Der Standard (in German). Vienna. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  8. 1 2 wien.ORF.at red (21 November 2021). "Nestroy: Maertens und Beckmann prämiert". wien.ORF.at (in German). Retrieved 23 November 2021.
  9. "Claus Peymann gibt österreichischen "Nestroy"-Preis zurück". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. dpa. 16 October 2002. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
  10. "Nestroy-Preise: Je sieben Nominierungen für Burgtheater, Josefstadt und Volkstheater". Der Standard (in German). Vienna. APA. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2019.

Official website