Awarding of the Nestroy Theater Prize 2019
The Nestroy Awards 2019 is the 20th awarding of the Nestroy Theater Prize and took place on November 24, 2019 in the Theater an der Wien . The moderators of the award ceremony were Maria Köstlinger , Florian Teichtmeister and Peter Fässlacher. The evening was musically accompanied by the orchestra of the United Stages Vienna under the direction of Herbert Pichler. The award ceremony was broadcast on ORF III . The winners of the categories Best Play - Author's Award and Lifetime Achievement were announced in advance on October 14, 2019, together with the nominations.
In 2019 the jury consists of the following people: Lothar Schreiner (chairman of the jury), Margarete Affenzeller, Karin Cerny, Wolfgang Huber-Lang, Peter Jarolin, Eva Maria Klinger , Wolfgang Kralicek and Petra Paterno.
Award winners and nominees 2019
Note: All nominees for the year are given, the winner is always on top. The awarding of the Nestroy 2019 refers to the 2018/2019 theater season.
| Most Nestroys: | Woyzeck - Co-production Burgtheater , Schauspielhaus Bochum , Akademietheater (two awards) |
| Most nominations: | Liliom - co-production Salzburg Festival , Thalia Theater Hamburg (five nominations) |
Best German-language performance
City of Dionysus - production by Christopher Rüping - Münchner Kammerspiele
- Chief Abendwind - production by Christoph Marthaler - Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg
- Tartuffe or the wise pig - staged by Claudia Bauer - Theater Basel
Best federal state performance
The revolution is eating its children! - Jan-Christoph Gockel and Ensemble - cooperation 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
Best director
Johan Simons - Woyzeck - Co-production Burgtheater , Schauspielhaus Bochum , Akademietheater
- Kornél Mundruczó - Liliom - co-production Salzburg Festival , Thalia Theater Hamburg
- Dušan David Pařízek - King Ottokar's Luck and End - Volkstheater Vienna
Best equipment
Raimund Orfeo Voigt - The lonely way - Theater in der Josefstadt and summer guests - Salzburg Festival
- Katrin Brack - Highfield landfill - Coproduction Wiener Festwochen , Burgtheater
- Monika Pormale - Liliom - Coproduction Salzburg Festival , Thalia Theater Hamburg
Best Actress
Steffi Krautz - End of the line longing (Blanche DuBois) - Volkstheater Vienna
- Anna Drexler - Woyzeck (Marie) - Coproduction Burgtheater , Schauspielhaus Bochum , Akademietheater
- Caroline Peters - Medea by Simon Stone after Euripides (Anna) - Burgtheater
- Maja Schöne - Liliom (Julie) - Coproduction Salzburg Festival , Thalia Theater Hamburg
- Andrea Wenzl - Faith, Love, Hope (Elisabeth) - Burgtheater
Best actor
Steven Scharf - Medea by Simon Stone based on Euripides (Lucas) - Burgtheater and Woyzeck (Franz Woyzeck) - co-production Burgtheater, Schauspielhaus Bochum , Akademietheater
- Benny Claessens - Hatred Triptych - Ways out of the Crisis - Coproduction Wiener Festwochen , Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin
- Lukas Holzhausen - King Ottokar's Luck and End (Rudolf von Habsburg) - Volkstheater Vienna
- Jörg Pohl - Liliom (Liliom) - Coproduction Salzburg Festival , Thalia Theater Hamburg
- Johannes Silberschneider - Jacobowsky and the Colonel (Jacobowsky) - Theater in the Josefstadt
Best supporting role
Evi Kehrstephan - Biedermann and the arsonists (Anna) - Volkstheater Vienna
- Rainer Galke - King Ottokar's Luck and End (Margarethe of Austria / Paltram Vatzo / Friedrich Zollern) - Volkstheater Vienna
- Alexandra Krismer - Radetzkymarsch , dramatization by Elmar Goerden (Colonel Kovacs, Valerie von Taussig, Miss Hirschwitz, Police advisor Fuchs) - Theater in der Josefstadt
- Christoph Luser - The rats (Erich Spitta) - Burgtheater
- Oda Thormeyer - Liliom (Frau Muskat) - Coproduction Salzburg Festival , Thalia Theater Hamburg
Best female offspring
Anna Rieser - Dogville (Grace) - Landestheater Linz
- Pinar Karabulut - director of Endstation Sehnsucht - Volkstheater Wien
- Enis Maci - author of cars - Schauspielhaus Wien
Best male offspring
Moritz Beichl - Director of The Day My Grandfather Was A Hero - State Theater Lower Austria
- Niklas Doddo - The Middle of the World (Phil) - Theater of Youth Vienna
- Matthias Rippert - director of Ernst is life - Bunbury - Landestheater Linz
Best off production
The Bruno Kreisky Lookalike by Toxic Dreams , text and direction Yosi Wanunu - co-production Toxic Dreams and WUK performing arts
- Kick-off - A sports piece by Jakub Kavin - TheaterArche
- Liliom.Club based on Liliom and Fight Club - direction and concept Ernst Kurt Weigel - co-production Das Off Theater and das.bernhard.ensemble
Best Piece - Author Award
Hate triptych - Ways out of the crisis - Sibylle Berg - Coproduction Wiener Festwochen , Maxim-Gorki-Theater Berlin
special price
3 Episodes of Life by Markus Öhrn - Coproduction Wiener Festwochen and Institutet
- The village of Nesterval, concept and direction Mr. Finland - co-production Nesterval and brut Wien
- Uninvited guests of DARUM ( Laura Andreß , Victoria Halper , Kai Krösche ) - production DARUM, cooperation with WERK X-Petersplatz
Life's work
Audience award
- Ruth Brauer-Kvam , Pauline Knof , Johannes Krisch , Lucy McEvil , Birgit Minichmayr , Tobias Moretti , Caroline Peters , Bernhard Schir and Peter Simonischek
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Theater Prize NESTROY 2019 celebrates its 20th anniversary. October 14, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 .
- ↑ a b NESTROY Prize 2019: The nominations. October 14, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 .
- ^ Theater awards: Best federal state production: Nestroy for the Graz Schauspielhaus. In: Small newspaper . November 24, 2019, accessed November 24, 2019 .