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]
Categories
- Best German-language performance
- Best direction
- Best equipment
- Best actress
- Best actor
- Best supporting role
- Best young talent
- Best off production
- Best play – Authors prize
- Lifetime achievement
- Special prize
- Audience award
- Best federal state performance
Recipients best direction

Simon Stone at the Nestroy Theatre Awards 2015 (Ronacher, Vienna, Austria)
| Year | Recipient | Production | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2011 | Andrea Breth | Zwischenfälle | |
| 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 |
| 2016 | Andrea Breth | Diese Geschichte von Ihnen (This Story of Yours) | John Hopkins |
| 2017 | Elmar Goerden | 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 | TANZ. Eine sylphidische Träumerei in Stunts | |
| 2021 | Barbara Frey | Automatenbüfett |
Recipients best actress

Actress Regina Fritsch, honored as 'Best Actress' at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008 (Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna)
| Jahr | Actress | Production | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Birgit Doll | Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Woolf? | Martha |
| 2001 | Judith Engel | Bash | Sue/Die Frau |
| 2002 | Ulli Maier | Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften | Agathe |
| 2003 | Maria Happel | Die Zeit der Plancks | Maria |
| 2004 | Birgit Minichmayr[5] | Das goldene Vlies | Medea |
| 2005 | Sunnyi Melles | Geschichten aus dem Wiener Wald | Valerie |
| 2006 | Edith Clever | Schlaf | Die ältere Frau |
| 2007 | Sylvie Rohrer | Medea. A project by Grzegorz Jarzyna & Über Tiere | Medea, Monolog |
| 2008 | Regina Fritsch | Verbrennungen | Nawal |
| 2009 | Birgit Minichmayr[6] | Der Weibsteufel | Weib |
| 2010 | Kirsten Dene | Eine Familie | Violet Weston |
| 2011 | Sarah Viktoria Frick | Stallerhof | Beppi |
| 2012 | Dörte Lyssewski | Endstation Sehnsucht (A Streetcar Named Desire) | Blanche DuBois |
| 2013 | Christiane von Poelnitz | Elektra (Hofmannsthal) | Elektra |
| 2014 | Nicole Heesters | Vor dem Ruhestand | Vera |
| 2015 | Elisabeth Orth | die unverheiratete | Die Alte |
| 2016 | Sona MacDonald | Fräulein Julie & Blue Moon | Julie, Sie |
| 2017 | Andrea Jonasson | Stage version of The Damned | Sophie von Essenbeck |
| 2018 | Caroline Peters[7] | Hotel Strindberg | multiple roles |
| 2019 | Steffi Krautz | Endstation Sehnsucht | Blanche DuBois |
| 2020 | Caroline Peters | Schwarzwasser | |
| 2021 | Lina Beckmann[8] | Richard the Kid & the King | Richard |
Recipients best actor
_Martin_Wuttke.jpg.webp)
Martin Wuttke at the award ceremony of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2010 in the Burgtheater in Vienna
| Year | Actor | Production | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Gert Voss | Die Möwe | Trigorin |
| 2001 | Sven-Eric Bechtolf | Drei Mal Leben | Hubert Finidori |
| 2002 | Sven-Eric Bechtolf | Das weite Land | Hofreiter |
| 2003 | Markus Hering | Chorphantasie | Conductor |
| 2004 | Toni Slama | Automatenbüffet | Adam |
| 2005 | Michael Maertens | König Ottokars Glück und Ende | Rudolf von Habsburg |
| Nicholas Ofczarek | Zu ebener Erde und erster Stock, König Ottokars Glück und Ende | Johann, Zawisch | |
| 2006 | Nicholas Ofczarek | Höllenangst | Wendelin |
| 2007 | Bernhard Schir | Das Fest | Christian |
| 2008 | Markus Hering | Verbrennungen, Freier Fall, Pool (Kein Wasser) | Hermile, Erich, C |
| 2009 | André Jung | Das letzte Band / Bis dass der Tag euch scheidet oder Eine Frage des Lichts | Krapp |
| 2010 | Martin Wuttke | Das Begräbnis & Peking Opel | Christian |
| 2011 | Max Mayer | Grillenparz & Bruno Schulz: Messias | Hunter called Fischer, multiple roles |
| 2012 | Joachim Meyerhoff | Die Kommune | |
| 2013 | Gregor Bloéb | Jägerstätter (Mitterer) | Franz Jägerstätter |
| 2014 | August Diehl | Hamlet | Hamlet |
| 2015 | Martin Wuttke | John Gabriel Borkman | John Gabriel Borkman |
| 2016 | Rainer Galke | Alte Meister | Irrsigler |
| 2017 | Joachim Meyerhoff | Die Welt im Rücken | |
| 2018 | Peter Simonischek | The Who and the What | Afzal |
| 2019 | Steven Scharf | Medea (Simon Stone) and Woyzeck | Lucas and Franz Woyzeck |
| 2020 | Franz Pätzold | Die Bakchen | Dionysos |
| 2021 | Michael Maertens[8] | Der Leichenverbrenner | Karel Kopfrkingl |
Recipients best play – authors prize

Playwright Gert Jonke (r.) and actor André Pohl (l.) at the Nestroy-Theaterpreis 2008 (Etablissement Ronacher, Vienna)
| Year | Play | Author |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Der Name | Jon Fosse |
| 2001 | Die Unsichtbare. Tirade an drei Stränden | Christoph Ransmayr |
| 2002 | Push up 1 – 3 | Roland Schimmelpfennig |
| 2003 | Chorphantasie | Gert Jonke |
| 2004 | Die Ziege oder Wer ist Sylvia? (The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?) | Edward Albee |
| 2005 | Hunt oder Der totale Februar | Franzobel |
| 2006 | Die versunkene Kathedrale (The Sunken Cathedral) | Gert Jonke |
| 2007 | Das purpurne Muttermal | René Pollesch |
| 2008 | Freier Fall | Gert Jonke |
| 2009 | Besuch bei dem Vater (Visit at the Father) | Roland Schimmelpfennig |
| 2010 | worst case | Kathrin Röggla |
| 2011 | Immer noch Sturm (Storm Still) | Peter Handke |
| 2012 | Geister in Princeton (Ghosts in Princeton) | Daniel Kehlmann |
| 2013 | Schatten (Euridyke sagt) (Shadow (Eurydice Says)) | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2014 | Die Ereignisse (The Events) | David Greig |
| 2015 | Die lächerliche Finsternis | Wolfram Lotz |
| 2016 | Lost and Found | Yael Renan |
| 2017 | Geächtet (Disgraced) | Ayad Akhtar |
| 2018 | jedermann (stirbt) | Ferdinand Schmalz |
| 2019 | Hass-Triptychon – Wege aus der Krise (Hate Triptych – Ways out of the crisis) | Sibylle Berg |
| 2020 | Schwarzwasser | Elfriede Jelinek |
| 2021 | Rand | Miroslava Svolikova |
Recipients lifetime achievement
_Ulrike_Kaufmann%252C_Erwin_Piplits%252C_Karl_Markovics%252C_Peter_Simonischek.jpg.webp)
Ulrike Kaufmann and Erwin Piplits at the award ceremony of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2010 in the Burgtheater in Vienna
| Year | Recipient | Laudator |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2020 | Christoph Marthaler | |
| 2021 | Elfriede Jelinek |
References
- 1 2 Czeike, Felix (9 September 2000). "Johann-Nestroy-Theaterpreis". Wien Geschichte Wiki (in German). Vienna: Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ↑ "Nestroy – Der Preis". Nestroy Preis. Vienna: Wiener Bühnenverein. 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- 1 2 Jarolin, Peter (17 November 2018). "Nestroy 2018: Schauspiel-Preise für Peters, Simonischek, Lyssewski". Kurier (in German). Vienna. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ↑ Affenzeller, Margarete (15 December 2014). "Ein bisschen Pfeffer für das polnische Theater". Der Standard. Vienna. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ↑ ""Nestroy"-Preis an Toni Slama und Birgit Minichmayr". Der Standard (in German). Vienna. 21 November 2004. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ↑ "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.
- 1 2 "Peters und Simonischek erhalten Nestroy als beste Schauspieler". Der Standard (in German). Vienna. 18 November 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- 1 2 wien.ORF.at red (21 November 2021). "Nestroy: Maertens und Beckmann prämiert". wien.ORF.at (in German). Retrieved 23 November 2021.
- ↑ "Claus Peymann gibt österreichischen "Nestroy"-Preis zurück". Die Welt (in German). Berlin. dpa. 16 October 2002. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ↑ "Nestroy-Preise: Je sieben Nominierungen für Burgtheater, Josefstadt und Volkstheater". Der Standard (in German). Vienna. APA. 2 October 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.