Johann Nestroy Ring

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The Johann-Nestroy-Ring , which was donated by the City of Vienna on the occasion of the 175th anniversary of Johann Nestroy’s birthday in 1976, is an award that was awarded annually until 1999 to people who have made outstanding contributions to the city through extraordinary and unusual achievements Vienna in cultivating the satirical-critical representation of the nature of this city, as well as its population in the sense of Nestroy, and have expressed this criticism at the highest intellectual level. The City of Vienna has not awarded this award since 2000. Instead, the City of Vienna has awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize since 2000 .

In October 2004, the International Nestroy Society and the Bad Ischl City Council decided to have the Johann-Nestroy-Ring lend to the city of Bad Ischl from now on.

Ring bearer

Awarded by the City of Vienna

Awarded by the city of Bad Ischl

Ring concept

According to the statutes, the Johann Nestroy ring has been designed and manufactured by the Bad Ischl master goldsmith Gerold Schodterer since 2005. Each ring is unique and is individually "tailored" to the respective ring bearer according to the following criteria.

Concept for the design of the Johann-Nestroy-Ring in Bad Ischl

The number 5 plays a supporting and connecting role in the concept for this ring of honor.

The jury used five criteria as the basis for awarding the Nestroy Ring:

  1. Caring for Nestroy's legacy
  2. Highest artistic level
  3. Time critical
  4. Satirical
  5. Imaginative

Nestroy's work rests on the 5 pillars of his talents:

  1. singing
  2. play
  3. Poetry
  4. Comic
  5. Teaching

These five pillars form the Nestroyring and connect Nestroy’s work, the city of Bad Ischl and the criteria that lead to the choice of Nestroy ring bearers.

The world of Johann Nestroy was the stage. And so a stage hovers over the ring, waiting for the appearance of the respective honorary ring bearer. The shape and shape of the stage are individually tailored to the personality and concerns of the respective honorary ring holder. “Nestroy's ghost” is at work under the stage.

The unusual and bizarre design language of the Nestroy ring, including its "floating" stage, underlines the expression so typical for Nestroy and refers to his incomparable sentence structures, which seem to float slightly in space despite their depth and accuracy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Markovics received Nestroy-Ring in the Wiener Zeitung on December 7th, 2010, accessed on April 12th, 2010
  2. ↑ Nestroy Ring goes to Niavarani. orf.at, December 7, 2013, accessed December 7, 2013 .
  3. ↑ orf.at - Herbert Föttinger receives Nestroy ring . Article dated December 7, 2016, accessed December 7, 2016.
  4. ^ Nestroy-Ring for Michael Köhlmeier on ORF from December 8, 2019, accessed on December 8, 2019