Awarded the Nestroy Theater Prize 2016
The Nestroy Awards 2016 was the 17th awarding of the Nestroy Theater Prize and took place on November 7, 2016 at the Ronacher . The award ceremony was moderated by Steffi Krautz and Markus Meyer . The winners of three categories ( Lifetime Achievement , Best Equipment and Best Piece - Author's Award ) were announced in advance on September 27, 2016 at the same time as the nominations. The event was broadcast on ORF III .
Award-winning and nominated 2016
Note: All nominees for the year are given, the winner is always on top. The awarding of the Nestroy 2016 relates to the 2015/2016 theater season.
| Most Nestroys: | no production could win more than one Nestroy |
| Most nominations: | Miss Julie and This Story of You (three nominations each) |
Best German-language performance
Angels in America - staging: Simon Stone , location: Theater Basel
- A cage went looking for a bird - staging: Andreas Kriegenburg , location: Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Ship of dreams - staging: Karin Beier , location: Schauspielhaus Hamburg
Best federal state performance
Lights of the suburbs - production: Alexander Charim - Landestheater Niederösterreich
- Kasimir and Karoline - production: Dominic Friedel - Schauspielhaus Graz
- Lavant! - Bernd Liepold-Mosser and Ute Liepold - City Theater Klagenfurt
Best director
Andrea Breth - This story from you - Akademietheater
- Anna Bergmann - Miss Julie - Theater in the Josefstadt
- Jan-Christoph Gockel - Imperium - Schauspielhaus Wien
Best equipment
Harald B. Thor - Wassa Schelesnowa - Burgtheater
Best Actress
Sona MacDonald - Miss Julie (Julie) - Theater in der Josefstadt and Blue Moon (you) - Wiener Kammerspiele
- Stefanie Dvorak - The Presidents (Mariedl) - Akademietheater
- Claudia Kottal - The blonde, the brunette and the redheads' revenge (seven characters) - KosmosTheater
- Caroline Peters - Bella Figura (Andrea) - Academy Theater
- Stefanie Reinsperger - Self-incriminations - Volx / Margareten, Volkstheater
Best actor
Rainer Galke - Old Masters (Irrsigler) - Volkstheater
- August Diehl - This story of you (Baxter) - Akademietheater
- Michael Maertens - The Auditor (Anton Antonowitsch) - Burgtheater
- Nicholas Ofczarek - That Story of You (Johnson) - Academy Theater
- Florian Teichtmeister - Miss Julie (Jean) - Theater in the Josefstadt
Best supporting role
Martin Reinke - The reunification of the two Koreas (six characters) - Akademietheater
- Gábor Biedermann - Ivanov (Jewgeny) - People's Theater
- Joachim Bißmeier - Endspiel (Nagg) - Salzburg Festival in coproduction with the Akademietheater
- Mavie Hörbiger - The servant of two masters (Smeraldina) - Burgtheater
- Siegfried Walther - People in the Hotel (Kringelein) - Wiener Kammerspiele
Best female offspring
Julia Graefner - The Storm (Caliban) - Schauspielhaus Graz
- Mieke Biendara - Netboy (Marie) - Theater of Youth
- Marie-Luise Stockinger - Three Sisters (Irina) - Burgtheater
Best male offspring
Luka Dimic - Tschick (Tschick) - Theater of Youth
- Tino Hillebrand - canned meat (Rolf) - Akademietheater
- Meo Wulf - Tschick (Maik Klingenberg) - Theater of Youth
Best off production
Not a play about Syria - action theater ensemble , production by Martin Gruber in cooperation with Werk X
- Bluad, Roz and Wossa - production by Christian Suchy - TAG
- Far away - production by Ingrid Lang - Nestroyhof Hamakom Theater
Best Piece - Author Award
Lost and Found - Yael Ronen - Volkstheater Vienna
special price
Wirhund / Us Dogs - production by SIGNA (Signa and Arthur Köstler), co-production with the Wiener Festwochen and the Volkstheater
- The Capitalism Tribunal - Haus Bartleby , brut Vienna
- Wards perform Jelinek Wards - staged by Tina Leisch and Bernhard Dechant
Life's work
Audience award
- Sandra Cervik , Michael Dangl , Gerti Drassl , Günter Franzmeier , Markus Meyer , Joachim Meyerhoff , Petra Morzé , Caroline Peters , Stefanie Reinsperger , Erwin Steinhauer , Birgit Stöger
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Nestroy Prize 2016: The Nominations . Press release of September 27, 2016, accessed on September 27, 2016.
- ↑ a b orf.at - Frank Castorf receives Nestroy for life's work . Article dated September 27, 2016, accessed September 27, 2016.
- ↑ a b Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: MacDonald and Galke awarded as best actors . Article dated November 7, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e Oberösterreichische Nachrichten: Graefner and Dimic are the best young mimes . Article dated November 7, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016.
- ↑ a b Kleine Zeitung: Graz artists clear away at the Nestroy Gala . Article dated November 7, 2016, accessed November 7, 2016.