Awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize in 2002
The Nestroy Awards 2002 was the third award of the Nestroy Theater Prize and took place on October 12, 2002 in the Volkstheater (Vienna) . Of the winners in a total of eleven categories, four were announced before the award gala, the remaining seven not until the event.
Andrea Eckert acted as the moderator of the gala .
"Nestroy Affair"
A prolonged political and media debate ensued about the awarding of the Nestroy Prize for his life's work to Claus Peymann . In his laudation for Peymann, André Heller told a “fairy tale” in which a politician made himself chancellor in a “cynical ego trip” and thus plunged the country into disaster. In her concluding moderation, Eckert appealed to the audience in the hall and in front of the television sets not to let the upcoming National Council election “end in a smear comedy again”. Violent reactions to these allusions to the then Federal Chancellor Wolfgang Schüssel and guided by him FPÖ / ÖVP coalition government came especially from the ÖVP politicians Andreas Khol and Wilhelm Molterer , the organizers and the Social Democratic Party accused planned that and the ORF , from the Knowing statements beforehand and not preventing them, but broadcasting them live. A few days later, Peymann asked the “esteemed jury” to withdraw the award because of “the unworthy drama and provincial nagging” that had broken out to him at the Nestroy award ceremony. It was not until 2012, on his 75th birthday, that he received the award again, which had meanwhile been kept in the Austrian Theater Museum - also because the politicians involved at the time were no longer in office and dignity.
Awarded and nominated 2002
| Most Nestroys: | Last call (2 Nestroys) |
| Most nominations: | Maria Stuart (3 nominations) |
Notes: All nominees for the year are given, the winner is always on top. The awarding of the Nestroy 2002 relates to the 2001/02 theater season.
Best German-language performance
The beautiful miller by Franz Schubert - production: Christoph Marthaler - Schauspielhaus Zürich
- Alcestis by Euripides - production: Jossi Wieler - Münchner Kammerspiele
- Emilia Galotti by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing - production: Michael Thalheimer - Deutsches Theater Berlin
Best director
Michael Schottenberg - The Talisman - Volkstheater (Vienna)
Best equipment
Martin Zehetgruber - Last Call - Burgtheater
- Olaf Altmann - Edward II. - City Theater Klagenfurt
- Igor Bauersima and Georg Lendorff - the measure of things - Akademietheater / Burgtheater
Best Actress
Ulli Maier - The man without qualities (Agathe) - Theater in the Josefstadt
- Corinna Kirchhoff - Maria Stuart (Maria Stuart) - Burgtheater
- Elisabeth Orth - Maria Stuart (Elisabeth) - Burgtheater
Best actor
Sven-Eric Bechtolf - The wide country (Hofreiter) - Salzburg Festival
- Karlheinz Hackl - The Torn One (Herr von Lips) - Burgtheater
- Gert Voss - Elisabeth II. (Herrenstein) - Burgtheater
Best supporting role
Anna Franziska Srna - Woyzeck (Marie) - Volkstheater (Vienna)
- Sylvie Rohrer - The fool and his wife tonight in Pancomedia (various roles) - Burgtheater
- Werner Wölbern - The wide country (Doctor Franz Mauer) - Salzburg Festival
Best offspring
Johanna Wokalek - The fool and his wife tonight in Pancomedia (various roles) - Burgtheater
- Raphael von Bargen - Phaidras Liebe (Hippolytos) - Volkstheater (Vienna)
- Susanna Schaefer - Ronja, Robber's Daughter (Ronja) - Theater of Youth
Best off production
Theater im Bahnhof LKH - A theater series
Best Piece - Author Award
Push up 1 - 3 - Roland Schimmelpfennig - Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz
special price
Gert Wrede - composer for Last Call - Burgtheater
- Rabenhof Theater
- Christian Suchy dachshund pigeon basement louse
Life's work
Individual evidence
- ↑ Der Standard : Political dispute about the Nestroy Gala , October 15, 2002
- ↑ Der Standard : Peymann finally accepted the Nestroy Prize statue , June 6, 2012