Nestroy Theater Prize / Best German-language performance

Since 2000 , the best German-language performance has been honored with the main prize at the Nestroy Theater Awards.

Award winners

year	performance	author	Director	Place of performance	the other nominees
2000	The seagull	Anton Chekhov	Luc Bondy	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	End of the line longing by Tennessee Williams - production: Frank Castorf - Salzburg Festival / Volksbühne Berlin Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg - production: Martin Kušej - Stadttheater Klagenfurt / Thalia Theater
2001	Rosmersholm	Henrik Ibsen	Peter Zadek	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	The fool and his wife tonight in the Pancomedia by Botho Strauss - production: Matthias Hartmann - Schauspielhaus Bochum Die Nacht sings her songs by Jon Fosse - production: Falk Richter - Schauspielhaus Zürich
2002	the beautiful Miller	Franz Schubert	Christoph Marthaler	Schauspielhaus Zurich	Alcestis by Euripides - production: Jossi Wieler - Münchner Kammerspiele Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - production: Michael Thalheimer - Deutsches Theater Berlin
2003	Nora	Henrik Ibsen	Thomas Ostermeier	Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz	Nora or A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen - Production: Stephan Kimmig - Thalia Theater Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - production: Andrea Breth - Akademietheater / Burgtheater
2004	Elementary particles	Michel Houellebecq	Johan Simons	Schauspielhaus Zurich	The golden fleece by Franz Grillparzer - staging: Stephan Kimmig - Burgtheater Innocence by Dea Loher - Director: Andreas Kriegenburg - Thalia Theater
2005	the Nibelungen	Friedrich Hebbel	Andreas Kriegenburg	Munich Kammerspiele	Protection from the future by Christoph Marthaler - production: Christoph Marthaler - Art Nouveau theater Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee - production: Jürgen Gosch - Deutsches Theater Berlin
2006	Fear of hell	Johann Nestroy	Martin Kušej	Salzburg Festival / Burgtheater	dark alluring world by Händl Klaus - production: Sebastian Nübling - Münchner Kammerspiele Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen - production: Thomas Ostermeier - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
2007	The god of slaughter	Yasmina Reza	Jürgen Gosch	Schauspielhaus Zurich	Faith, Love, Hope by Ödön von Horváth - production: Stephan Kimmig - Münchner Kammerspiele Wallenstein by Friedrich Schiller - production: Peter Stein - Berliner Ensemble
2008	The rats	Gerhart Hauptmann	Michael Thalheimer	German Theater Berlin	The last fire by Dea Loher - production: Andreas Kriegenburg - Thalia Theater The Storm by William Shakespeare - production: Stefan Pucher - Münchner Kammerspiele
2009	Rechnitz	Elfriede Jelinek	Jossi Wieler	Munich Kammerspiele	The Seagull by Anton Chekhov - production: Jürgen Gosch - Deutsches Theater Berlin The trial of Franz Kafka - production: Andreas Kriegenburg - Münchner Kammerspiele
2010	Volpone	Ben Jonson	Werner Düggelin	Schauspielhaus Zurich	The dirty, the ugly and the mean by Ettore Scola and Ruggero Maccari - production: Karin Beier - Schauspiel Köln Thieves by Dea Loher - production: Andreas Kriegenburg - Deutsches Theater Berlin
2011	The weavers	Gerhart Hauptmann	Michael Thalheimer	German Theater Berlin	Platonow by Anton Chekhov - production: Barbara Frey - Schauspielhaus Zürich Incidents - production: Andrea Breth - Akademietheater
2012	Winter trip	Elfriede Jelinek	Stefan Bachmann	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	Prince Friedrich von Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist - production: Andrea Breth - Salzburg Festival / Salzburg State Theater / Burgtheater Roast Satans by Rainer Werner Fassbinder - production: Stefan Pucher - Münchner Kammerspiele
2013	Travel through the night	Friederike Mayröcker	Katie Mitchell	Cologne theater	Elektra by Hugo von Hofmannsthal - production: Michael Thalheimer - Burgtheater Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen - production: Martin Kušej - Residenztheater Munich
2014	fist	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Martin Kušej	Residenztheater (Munich)	Common Ground by Yael Ronen - Production: Yael Ronen , Maxim-Gorki-Theater Tauberbach by Alain Platel - production: Alain Platel , Münchner Kammerspiele / Les Ballets C de la B / NT Gent
2015	The ridiculous darkness	Wolfram Lotz	Dušan David Pařízek	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	der die Mann by Konrad Bayer - production: Herbert Fritsch , Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin Why is Mr. R. running amok? by Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Michael Fengler - production: Susanne Kennedy , Münchner Kammerspiele
2016	Angels in america	Tony Kushner	Simon Stone	Theater Basel	A cage went looking for a bird - production: Andreas Kriegenburg , Deutsches Theater Berlin Ship of dreams - staging: Karin Beier , Schauspielhaus Hamburg
2017	The robbers	Friedrich Schiller	Ulrich Rasche	Residenztheater Munich	Three sisters - production: Simon Stone , Theater Basel Faust - production by Frank Castorf , Volksbühne Berlin
2018	The Persians	Aeschylus	Ulrich Rasche	Salzburg Festival in coproduction with Schauspiel Frankfurt	Prey women war - production: Karin Henkel - Schauspielhaus Zurich The boarding school - production, stage and costumes: Ersan Mondtag - Theater Dortmund
2019	Dionysus city		Christopher Rüping	Munich Kammerspiele	Chief Abendwind - production by Christoph Marthaler - Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg Tartuffe or the wise pig - staged by Claudia Bauer - Theater Basel

Jossi Wieler (left) and Frank Baumbauer from the Münchner Kammerspiele ( Nestroy Theater Prize 2009 )

statistics

Most frequently rewarded theater	Schauspielhaus Zürich , Akademietheater / Burgtheater (4 awards each)
Most frequently nominated theater	Münchner Kammerspiele (10 nominations)
Most often nominated theater without a win	Thalia Theater (4 nominations)