Nestroy Theater Prize / Best Actor

Markus Hering ( Nestroy 2008 )

Since 2000 when will Nestroy Theater Prize of the Best Actor honor.

Award winners

André Jung ( Nestroy 2009 )

Martin Wuttke ( Nestroy 2010 )

Rainer Galke ( Nestroy 2016 )

year	actor	Staging (role)	Place of performance	Other nominees
2000	Gert Voss	The Seagull (Trigorin)	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	Michael Maertens for The Ignorant and the Mad (Doctor) Werner Wölbern for woe to those who lie! (Leon)
2001	Sven-Eric Bechtolf	Three times life (Hubert Finidori)	Burgtheater	Helmuth Lohner for My Friend (Plain) Gert Voss for Rosmersholm (Johannes Rosmer)
2002	Sven-Eric Bechtolf	The wide country (Hofreiter)	Salzburg Festival	Karlheinz Hackl for Der Zerrissene (Herr von Lips) Gert Voss for Elisabeth II. (Herrenstein)
2003	Markus Hering	Choral Fantasy (Conductor)	European Capital of Culture Graz 2003 / Burgtheater	Joachim Bißmeier for above all peaks is peace (Moritz Meister) Wolfgang Hübsch for The Broken Jug (Village Judge Adam)
2004	Toni Slama	Vending machine buffet (Adam)	Theater in the Josefstadt	Peter Simonischek for Die Ziege or Wer ist Sylvia? (Martin) Michael Maertens for The Golden Fleece (Jason)
2005	Michael Maertens	King Ottokar's Luck and End (Rudolf von Habsburg)	Salzburg Festival / Burgtheater	Tobias Moretti for King Ottokar's Luck and End (King Ottokar)
2005	Nicholas Ofczarek	On the ground floor and first floor (Johann) King Ottokar's luck and end (Zawisch)	Burgtheater Salzburg Festival / Burgtheater
2006	Nicholas Ofczarek	Fear of hell (Wendelin)	Salzburg Festival / Burgtheater	Michael Maertens for arsenic and lace cap (Mortimer) Joachim Meyerhoff for overall acting performance in the 2005/06 season
2007	Bernhard Schir	The feast (Christian)	Theater in the Josefstadt	Joachim Meyerhoff for Much Ado About Nothing (Benedict) Gert Voss for King Lear (King Lear)
2008	Markus Hering	Burns (Hermile), Free Fall (Erich) & Pool (No Water) (C)	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	Roland Koch for Die Probe (The brave Simon Korach) (Franzeck) Samuel Weiss for Harper Regan (Seth Regan & Mickey Nestor)
2009	André Jung	The last tape / Till the day do you part or A question of light (Krapp)	Salzburg Festival / Münchner Kammerspiele	Bernd Jeschek for Das Fest (Helge) Peter Simonischek for builder Solness (Halvard)
2010	Martin Wuttke	The funeral (Christian) & in Beijing Opel	Burgtheater & Akademietheater / Burgtheater	Klaus Maria Brandauer for Oedipus on Colonos (Oedipus) Ignaz Kirchner for War and Peace (Prince Bolkonskij / several roles)
2011	Max Mayer	Grillenparz (hunter named Fischer) & Bruno Schulz: Messiah (several roles)	Schauspielhaus (Vienna)	Roland Koch for Professor Bernhardi (Dr. Ebenwald) Joachim Meyerhoff for Professor Bernhardi (Dr. Bernhardi) Marcello de Nardo for Mr. Puntila and his servant Matti (Puntila) & spy Colonel Redl (Colonel Redl) Gert Voss for measure for measure (Duke Vincentio)
2012	Joachim Meyerhoff	The commune	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	August Diehl for Prince Friedrich von Homburg (Prince Friedrich Arthur von Homburg) Michael Maertens for An Ideal Man (Sir Robert Chiltern) Johannes Silberschneider for ghosts in Princeton (Kurt Gödel) Raphael von Bargen for Woyzeck & The Tiger Lillies (Woyzeck)
2013	Gregor Bloéb	Jägerstätter (Franz Jägerstätter)	Theater in the Josefstadt	Norman Hacker for In Agony (First Lieutenant Walter) Philipp Hochmair for everyone (everyone) Nicholas Ofczarek for The Evil Spirit Lumpazivagabundus (Knieriem) & Uncle Vanja (Iwan Petrowitsch Wojnizkij) Gert Voss for Tartuffe (orgone)
2014	August Diehl	Hamlet (Hamlet)	Burgtheater	Haymon Maria Buttinger for Woyzeck (Woyzeck) Johannes Silberschneider for wood felling (narrator) Daniel Sträßer for The Seagull (Konstantin) Thiemo Strutzenberger for the well-meaning (Maximilian Aue)
2015	Martin Wuttke	John Gabriel Borkman (John Gabriel Borkman)	Akademietheater in coproduction with the Wiener Festwochen and the Theater Basel	Steffen Höld for When I was once dead and Martin L. Gore didn't come to see me Michael Maertens for The Rue de Lourcine Affair (Mistingue) Nicholas Ofczarek for The Rue de Lourcine Affair (Lenglumé, Reindeer) Martin Vischer for Johnny Breitwieser (Johnny Breitwieser)
2016	Rainer Galke	Old Masters (Irrsigler)	Popular theater	August Diehl for This Story of You (Baxter) Michael Maertens for The Auditor (Anton Antonowitsch) Nicholas Ofczarek for That Story of You (Johnson) Florian Teichtmeister for Miss Julie (Jean)
2017	Joachim Meyerhoff	The world behind you	Academy Theater	Lukas Holzhausen - The Misanthrope (Alceste) Roland Koch - Pension Schöller (Philipp Klapproth) Tobias Moretti - Everyman (Everyman) Steven Scharf - Witch Hunt (John Proctor)
2018	Peter Simonischek	The Who and the What (Afzal)	Academy Theater	Herbert Föttinger - Professor Bernhardi (Dr. Bernhardi) Jens Harzer - Penthesilea (Achilles) Michael Maertens - Before Sunrise (Alfred Loth) Martin Wuttke - Hotel Strindberg
2019	Steven Sharp	Medea (Lucas) Woyzeck (Franz Woyzeck)	Burgtheater co-production Burgtheater, Schauspielhaus Bochum , Akademietheater	Benny Claessens - hate triptych - ways out of the crisis Lukas Holzhausen - King Ottokar's Happiness and End (Rudolf von Habsburg) Jörg Pohl - Liliom (Liliom) Johannes Silberschneider - Jacobowsky and the Colonel (Jacobowsky)

statistics
Most frequently honored actor	Sven-Eric Bechtolf , Nicholas Ofczarek , Markus Hering , Joachim Meyerhoff and Martin Wuttke (2 awards each)
Most frequently nominated actor	Michael Maertens (7 nominations)
Most often nominated actor without a win	Roland Koch and Peter Simonischek (3 nominations each)