Award ceremony 2017
The Faust Award 2017 , the twelfth award of the German Theater Prize Der Faust , took place on November 3, 2017 at the Schauspiel Leipzig and was moderated by Christian Friedel .
The nominations were announced on September 15, 2017, and Elfriede Jelinek received the Lifetime Achievement Award . Nikolaus Habjan accepted the award on behalf of Jelinek . He came on stage with a Jelinek hand puppet and let them speak their acceptance speech. The award was sponsored in 2017 by the Free State of Saxony , the City of Leipzig , the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States , the German Academy of Performing Arts and the German Stage Association. Cooperation partners were the German Stage Association of Saxony and the location campaign “So geht sächsisch”.
Award winners and nominees
Best director in acting
Johanna Wehner - The Oresty - State Theater Kassel
- Kornél Mundruczó - Látszatélet / Imitation of Life - Theater Oberhausen
- Joanna Praml - A Midsummer Night's Dream - Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus / Bürgerbühne
Best acting performance
Karin Neuhäuser - Anger / Rage - Thalia Theater Hamburg
- Martin Reinke - Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman - Schauspiel Köln
- Téné Ouelgo - Wilhelm Voigt in The Captain of Köpenick - Theater Altenburg-Gera
Best director in music theater
Christoph Marthaler - Lulu - Hamburg State Opera
- Paul-Georg Dittrich - La damnation de Faust - Theater Bremen
- Tatjana Gürbaca - Lohengrin - Aalto Theater Essen
Best singer-performance in musical theater
Gloria Rehm - Marie in The Soldiers - State Theater Wiesbaden
- Nadine Lehner - Kundry / 1st and 2nd squire / voice from the heights in Parsifal - Theater Bremen
- Georg Zeppenfeld - Gurnemanz in Parsifal - Bayreuth Festival
Best choreography
Maria Campos and Guy Nader - Fall Seven Times - Staatstheater Mainz
- Dewey Dell - Sleep Technique - An answer to the cave - Tanzfabrik Berlin
- Damien Jalet - Thr (o) ugh - Hessian State Ballet Darmstadt Wiesbaden
Best performing performance in dance
Sylvana Seddig - Iphigenie - Schauspiel Frankfurt
- Adam Russell-Jones - Le Specter de la Rose - Stuttgart Ballet
- Lou Thabart as Theo in Van Gogh - Leipzig Ballet / Leipzig Opera
Best director for children's and youth theater
Hannah Biedermann - either and - Young Ensemble Stuttgart (JES)
- Jan Friedrich - Faust - Young National Theater Mannheim
- Ulrike Hatzer - Next door - Young State Theater Braunschweig
Best equipment costume / stage
Sebastian Hannak - Raumbühne Heterotopia - Oper Halle
- Michael Sieberock-Serafimowitsch (stage) / Mona Ulrich (costume) - The Borderline Procession - Schauspiel Dortmund
- Teresa Vergho (costume) - The Suicide Sisters - Münchner Kammerspiele
Life's work
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2017: Announcement of the nominees // Elfriede Jelinek receives prize for life's work. In: buehnenverein.de , September 15, 2017, accessed on September 23, 2017.
- ↑ Jelinek honored with the Faust theater prize for life's work. In: orf.at , November 3, 2017, accessed on November 3, 2017.
- ^ German Theater Prize DER FAUST 2017: The winners. In: buehnenverein.de , November 3, 2017, accessed on November 3, 2017.