Kainz Medal

The Josef Kainz Medal was donated by the City of Vienna in 1958 to mark the 100th birthday of the Austrian actor Josef Kainz . The award was given annually to actors , directors and stage designers / outfitters until 1999 . Together with the Nestroy Ring and the Raimund Ring , it was included in the newly created, annually awarded Nestroy Theater Prize (several categories) from 2000 .

Regulations

On March 28, 1959, the Vienna City Council decided to donate the Kainz Medal:

The Vienna City Council today approved the foundation of the "Josef Kainz Medal of the City of Vienna" on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the famous Viennese actor. Every year on September 20th, the anniversary of Kainz's death, the medal is awarded to an actor and an actress for the best acting and a director for the best directorial work of the year on a Viennese stage. The Kainz Medal is awarded by the mayor. Foreign artists can also receive it, but it can only be awarded once.

Award winners

1950s

1958:

Rosa Albach-Retty - "A Strange Lady" ( Mrs. Edna Savage ) - Academy Theater

Günther Haenel - "Solar Eclipse" ( Rubaschow ) - Volkstheater

Leopold Lindtberg - "Woe to him who lies" ( director ) - Burgtheater

1959:

Alma Seidler - "An Old Lady's Medals" ( Mrs. Dowey ) - Burgtheater

Attila Hörbiger - "Almost a Poet" ( Cornelius Melody ) - Burgtheater

Kurt Horwitz - "The Misanthropist" ( director ) - Volkstheater

1960s

1960:

Paula Wessely - "Anatol" ( Gabriele ) - Akademietheater

Anton Edthofer - "The Hidden Stream" ( Daniel Monnerie ) - Theater in der Josefstadt

Ernst Lothar - “Das weite Land” ( director ) - Akademietheater

1961:

Heidemarie Hatheyer - "The golden fleece" ( Medea ) - Burgtheater

Hans Moser - "Hell fear" ( patchwork cobbler Pfriem ) - Theater in the Josefstadt

Josef Gielen - "What you want" ( director ) - Burgtheater.

1962:

Helene Thimig - “That's it - is it like that?” ( Signora Frola ) - Theater in der Josefstadt

Ernst Deutsch - "Nathan the Wise" ( Nathan ) - Burgtheater

Leon Epp - "The Idiot", "Frank the Fifth" and "Andorra" ( all directed ) - Volkstheater

1963:

Dorothea Neff - "Mother Courage and Her Children" ( Mother Courage ) and "Music" ( Colonel Hühnerwadel )

Josef Meinrad - "Liliom" ( Liliom ) and "The Physicists" ( Ernst Heinrich Ernesti )

Heinrich Schnitzler - “The Last Masks”, “The Time of the Cherries” and “Night Train” ( all directed ) - Theater in der Josefstadt

1964:

Hilde Krahl

Hans Holt

Gustav Manker - Shakespeare "Troilus and Cressida" and Ferdinand Bruckner "Die Verbrecher" (director)

1965:

Käthe Gold - "The merry women of Windsor" ( Mrs. Page ) - Burgtheater

Leopold Rudolf - "System Fabrizzi" ( Antonio Fabrizzi ) - Theater in the Josefstadt

Rudolf Steinböck - “After the Fall of Man” ( director ) - Burgtheater

1966:

Adrienne Gessner - "Arsenic and old lace" ( Abby Brewster ) - Theater in der Josefstadt

Curd Jürgens - "Judge in his own case" ( Bill Maitland ) - Theater in der Josefstadt

Michael Kehlmann - "The tenth man" ( director ) - Theater in der Josefstadt

1967:

1968:

1969:

Helmut Qualtinger - "Stories from the Vienna Woods" (Magic King) and "The Talisman" (Titus Feuerfuchs)

Hans Hollmann

Sponsorship award: Brigitte Swoboda - " Magic Afternoon "

1970s

1970:

1971:

1972:

Sponsorship award for direction: Werner Prinz

1973:

Judith Holzmeister

Michael Heltau - "The Concert" (Dr. Jura), Volkstheater

Erwin Axer

Georg Schmid

1974:

Gertraud Jesserer - "Stories from the Vienna Woods" ( Marianne )

Paul Hoffmann

Hans Gratzer

Sponsorship award: Peter Gruber , Therese Affolter

1975:

1976:

Sponsorship award: Sonja Sutter

1977:

1978:

Fritz Muliar - " Threepenny Opera " ( Peachum )

Angelika Hurwicz

Bert Kistner

Sponsorship award: Fritz Holy

1979:

Hortense raky

Joachim Bissmeier

Rolf Langenfass

Sponsorship award: Maria Bill

1980s

1980:

Josefin Platt

Helmuth Lohner

Achim Benning - "Summer Guests" ( Director )

1981:

1982:

Sponsorship award: Helmut Wiesner , Ottwald John , Lena Iglisonis and Nika Brettschneider

1983:

Hilde Krahl

Peter Gruber

Herbert Kapplmüller

Sponsorship award: Ulrike Kaufmann , Hans Piesbergen

1984:

Günther Einbrodt

Gerhard Jax

Sponsorship award: Andrea Jaufer , Wolfgang Böck and Hubert Kramar

1985:

Franz Morak

Tatja Seibt

Yuri Lyubimov

Carlo Tommasi - "The dream of a life" ( stage design )

Sponsorship award: Beatrice Frey

1986:

Sponsorship award: Otto Clemens - "Michael Kramer" (Arnold) - Theater in der Josefstadt

1987:

Gert Voss

Elisabeth Rath

Achim Freyer

Claus Peymann (not accepted)

Sponsorship award: Klaus Fischer , Katharina Manker , Torsten Fischer and Sabina Kellner

1988:

Sponsorship award: Stephan Bruckmeier and Vincenzo Baviera

1989:

no award to costume or stage designers

1990s

1990:

Sponsorship award: Cornelia Lippert and Thomas Evertz

1991:

Martin Schwab

Birgit Doll

Cesare Lievi

Daniele Lievi (posthumous)

Sponsorship award: Kurt Palm and Katrin Thurm

1992:

Johann Adam Oest

Andrea Clausen

Thomas Langhoff - "The Tower" ( director )

no award to costume or stage designers

Sponsorship award: Susanne Thomasberger

1993:

Sponsorship award: Josef Hader

Sponsorship award: Ursula Hübner , Wolf Bachofner

1994:

Sponsorship award: Dario Lindes

1995:

Anne Bennent - "Yvonne, Princess of Burgundy" ( Yvonne ) - Academy Theater

There was no award for the best actor.

Ariane Mnouchkine - “Le Tartuffe” ( director ) - Wiener Festwochen & Theater du Soleil @ Museumsquartier

Peter Schulz - "To the beautiful view" ( equipment ) - Volkstheater

Promotion Prize I: Christian Banzhaf - " Penalty " ( Ted Merschroth ) - Theater der Jugend @ Theater im Zentrum

Promotion Prize II: Theresa Hübchen - "Arkadien" ( Thomasina Coverly ) - Theater in der Josefstadt

Sponsorship Award III: Karin Henkel - “Witch Hunt” and “The Locked Out” ( both directed ) - Akademietheater and vestibule of the Burgtheater

Promotion Prize IV: Philippe Arlaud - "Angels in America" and "In the eyes of a stranger" ( both set ) - Schauspielhaus

1996:

Angela Winkler - "The Cherry Orchard" ( Lyubow Andrejewna Ranjewskaja ) - Academy Theater

Josef Bierbichler - "The Cherry Orchard" ( Jermolai Alexejewitsch ) - Academy Theater

Peter Zadek - "The Cherry Orchard" ( director ) - Akademietheater

Philippe Arlaud - “Quai West” ( stage design & lighting ) - theater

Promotion Prize I: Sebastian Blomberg - ( overall acting performance ) - Schauspielhaus

Promotion Prize II: Gabriela Hütter - “The waves of the sea and the waves of love” ( Hero ) and “Die gefesselte Phantasie” ( Poetic Fantasy ) - Theater Group 80

Award III: Stefan Bachmann - “Sketchbook” ( director ) - Schauspielhaus

Promotion Prize IV: Christoph Speich - "You should give me grandchildren" ( stage design ) - Schauspielhaus

1997:

Andrea Eckert - "Master Class - Maria Callas" ( Maria ) - Volkstheater

Sieghardt Rupp - "The Furtwängler Case" ( Wilhelm Furtwängler ) - Rabenhof

Helmut Wiesner - "About the Villages" ( director ) - Theater Group 80

Ulrike Kaufmann - "Xanadu" ( equipment ) - Odeon

Promotion Prize I: Christoph Müller - "Dysmorphomania" ( G., geologist ) - Schauspielhaus

Promotion Prize II: Franziska Sztavjanik - "The lonely way" ( Johanna ) - Volkstheater

Promotion Prize III: Christian Stückl - "Dysmorphomania" ( Director ) - Schauspielhaus

Promotion Prize IV: Christian Sedelmayer - "Dysmorphomania" ( equipment ) - Schauspielhaus

1998:

Dörte Lyssewski - “Scenes from a Marriage” ( Marianne ) and “The Similar” ( Magda / Odile ) - Academy Theater and Theater in the Josefstadt

Nicholas Ofczarek - "Krähwinkelfreiheit" ( Eberhard Ultra ) - Burgtheater

Einar Schleef - "A Sports Play" ( director ) - Burgtheater

Bert Neumann - "Krähwinkelfreiheit" ( equipment ) - Burgtheater

Promotion Prize I: Wolfram Rupperti - ( overall acting performance ) - Schauspielhaus

Promotion Prize II: Meriam Abbas - "Faust" ( Gretchen ) and "The Illusion" ( Malibea, Isabelle & Hippolyta ) - Schauspielhaus

Sponsorship Award III: Philip Tiedemann - “Public abuse” ( director ) - Akademietheater

Promotion Prize IV: John Lloyd Davies - "Popcourn" ( interior design ) - Rabenhof

1999:

Maria Happel - "The natives" ( Irmi ) and "Minna von Barnhelm" ( Franziska ) - Academy and Burgtheater

Robert Meyer - ( overall acting performance ) - Burg- und Akademietheater

Klaus Fischer - "Die Schwärmer" ( director ) - Theater Group 80

Maria-Elena Amos - "The natives" ( equipment )

Promotion Prize I: Rupert Henning - "The Lonely West" ( Valene Connor ) - Theater Drachengasse

Promotion Prize II: Claudia Sabitzer - ( overall acting performance ) - Schauspielhaus

Promotion Prize III: Stephanie Mohr - "Knives in Hens" ( director ) - Volkstheater, Am Plafon

Promotion Prize IV: Etienne Plüss - “ Claus Peymann buys a pair of pants and goes out to eat with me ” ( interior design ) - Akademietheater

Individual evidence

^ Wien.at - March 1958 Vienna City Council decides to donate the Kainz Medal
^ Wien.at - October 1958 Awarded for the first time: The Josef Kainz Medal of the City of Vienna
↑ Vienna honors its best stage artists In: Rathauskorrespondenz from October 27, 1960. (Accessed July 18, 2012)
↑ Honor for Dorothea Neff, Heinrich Schnitzler and Josef Meinrad In: Rathauskorrespondenz from October 3, 1963. (Accessed July 18, 2012)
↑ APA -Meldung 248 of 23 March 1988
↑ Article in the journal "Bühne" in the Google Books search
^ Winner of the Emmy Werner Directorate at the Volkstheater ( Memento from May 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

[1] Wien.at - March 1958 Vienna City Council decides to donate the Kainz Medal

[2] Wien.at - October 1958 Awarded for the first time: The Josef Kainz Medal of the City of Vienna

[3] Vienna honors its best stage artists In: Rathauskorrespondenz from October 27, 1960. (Accessed July 18, 2012)

[4] Honor for Dorothea Neff, Heinrich Schnitzler and Josef Meinrad In: Rathauskorrespondenz from October 3, 1963. (Accessed July 18, 2012)

[5] APA -Meldung 248 of 23 March 1988

[6] Article in the journal "Bühne" in the Google Books search

[7] Winner of the Emmy Werner Directorate at the Volkstheater ( Memento from May 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )