Nestroy Theater Prize / Best State Performance

Since 2011, the Nestroy Theater Prize has been awarded the best federal state performance . The category was introduced to counter the dominance of Viennese theaters in previous awards.

Award winners

year	performance	author	Director	Place of performance	Other nominees
2011	America	Franz Kafka	Bernd Liepold-Mosser	City Theater Klagenfurt	The Measure of Things by Neil LaBute - production: Alexandra Liedtke - Salzburger Landestheater The master and Margarita by Michail Bulgakow - staging: Viktor Bodó - Schauspielhaus Graz
2012	Ghosts in Princeton	Daniel Kehlmann	Anna Badora	Schauspielhaus Graz	The last days of humanity according to Karl Kraus - production: Zeno Stanek - Herrenseetheater Litschau Lonely people by Gerhart Hauptmann - production: Janusz Kica - Landestheater Niederösterreich
2013	Hakoah Vienna	Yael Ronen and Ensemble	Yael Ronen	Schauspielhaus Graz	Mamma Medea by Tom Lanoye - production: Philipp Hauß - Landestheater Niederösterreich We always sell by Robert Woelfl - production: Ute Liepold - Theater Wolkenflug at the State Museum of Carinthia
2014	Fear of hell	Johann Nestroy	Susanne Lietzow	Phoenix Theater	My mother Cleopatra by Attila Bartis - production: Róbert Alföldi - Landestheater Niederösterreich Woe to him who lies by Franz Grillparzer - Production: Alexander Charim - State Theater Niederösterreich
2015	Anna Karenina	Armin Petras based on the novel by Leo Tolstoy	Susanne Schmelcher	Tyrolean State Theater Innsbruck	The misconception of Albert Camus - Staging: Nikolaus Habjan - Schauspielhaus Graz The Tempest by William Shakespeare - production: Susanne Lietzow - Theater Phönix
2016	Suburban lights	Aki Kaurismäki	Alexander Charim	State Theater of Lower Austria	Kasimir and Karoline - production: Dominic Friedel - Schauspielhaus Graz Lavant! - Bernd Liepold-Mosser and Ute Liepold - City Theater Klagenfurt
2017	The order / Danton's death		Jan-Christoph Gockel	Schauspielhaus Graz	A Midsummer Night's Dream or Bathtub Handles in Price Comparison - Production: Kurt Palm - Theater Phönix Maria Stuart - production: Stephanie Mohr - Stadttheater Klagenfurt
2018	Ivanov	Anton Pavlovich Chekhov	Mateja Koležnik	Stadttheater Klagenfurt in coproduction with the United Theaters of Bozen	Böhm - production: Nikolaus Habjan - Schauspielhaus Graz Srebrenica - production and theater version: Peter Arp - Schauspielhaus Salzburg in coproduction with farmers helping farmers
2019	The revolution is eating its children!		Jan-Christoph Gockel and ensemble	Cooperation with Schauspielhaus Graz , Africolognefestival	Kasimir and Karoline - production by Susanne Lietzow - Landestheater Linz Before sunrise (Ewald Palmetshofer after Gerhart Hauptmann) - production by Georg Schmiedleitner - City Theater Klagenfurt

Landestheater Innsbruck : Ensemble, direction & Co. by Anna Karenina ( Nestroy Theater Prize 2015 )

statistics

Most frequently rewarded theater	Schauspielhaus Graz (3 awards)
Most frequently nominated theater	Schauspielhaus Graz (6 nominations)
Most often nominated theater without a win