Award ceremony 2006
The first presentation of the German Theater Prize Der Faust took place on November 24, 2006 in the Aalto-Theater in Essen , North Rhine-Westphalia . The organizer was the German Stage Association .
Award winners and nominees
Best director in acting
Jürgen Gosch - Macbeth - Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus
- Volker Lösch - The Weber - State Theater Dresden
- Barbara Wachendorff - I have to see if I'm there - Schlosstheater Moers
Best acting performance
Katharina Schüttler - Hedda Gabler (Hedda Gabler) - Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz
- Nicole Heesters - In All Honor (Honor) - Hamburger Kammerspiele
- Alexander Scheer - Othello (Othello) - Hamburg theater
Best director in music theater
Jossi Wieler - Doctor Faustus - State Opera Stuttgart
- Dietrich Hilsdorf - Jephta - Theater of the City of Bonn
- Andreas Kriegenburg - Orpheus and Eurydike - Theater Magdeburg
Best singer-performance in musical theater
Evelyn Herlitzius - Salome (Salome) - Semperoper
- Franz Grundträger - Simon Boccanegra (Simon Boccanegra) - Hamburg State Opera
- Nina Stemme - Tristan and Isolde (Isolde) - Bayreuth Festival
Best choreography
Meg Stuart - Replacement - Volksbühne Berlin
- Tomasz Kajdanski - Tschaikowski - Thuringian State Theater Eisenach
- Stephan Thoss - Between midnight and morning: Schwanensee - State Theater Hanover / Aalto-Theater Essen
Best performing performance in dance
Marijn Rademaker - Äffi (solo performance) - Stuttgart Ballet
- Thiago Bordin - Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) - Hamburg Ballet
- Lucia Lacarra - The Silver Rose (Sophie) - Bavarian State Ballet
Best director for children's and youth theater
Klaus Schumacher - Mother Africa - Deutsches Schauspielhaus
- Volker Metzler - The killer in me is the killer in you my love - Theater Junge Generation Dresden
- Rüdiger Pape - The Nibelungs - Ömmes & Oimel , Cologne
Best equipment costume / stage
Katrin Brack - Iwanow (stage) - Volksbühne Berlin
- Olaf Altmann - Faust I and Faust II (stage) - Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Achim Freyer - Médée (equipment) - National Theater Mannheim
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