Nestroy prices 2023: Felix Mitterer is honored for his life's work

Nestroy prices 2023: Felix Mitterer is honored for his life's work

Felix Mitterer, an outstanding Austrian playwright, is awarded the Nestroy Prize for his life's work. The jury under the direction of Alexandra Althoff recognizes his commitment to the genre of the folk, which has received "a fine feeling for language and form" through its theater work. This award clearly shows how important Mitterers create is for the living Austrian theater culture.

This year there is also a remarkable innovation: the author price was divided into a separate category, from which three nominated people then emerged. For the best plays, Steffen Link for "The Association", Ferdinand Schmalz for "Hildensaga" and the team of Magdalena Schrefel and Valentin Schuster were nominated for "the many voices of my brother". The number of nominations in total amounts to 42, which were announced on Tuesday by the Viennese stage association.

nominations for the best productions

One of the outstanding productions this year is Lucia Bihlers staging "The transformation" to Franz Kafka at the Academy Theater. This was nominated in several categories, including the best director and best actress. The premiere of Christiane Karoline Schlegel's "From a women's room" at the Schauspielhaus Graz is also very recognized with nominations for the best director and the best actors.

The jury emphasized its favorites not only from Vienna, but also from other German -speaking theaters. One of the best performances is Karin Beier's "Anthropolis" and René Pollesch's last staging "Yes nothing is ok" and Rieke Süßkow's work "Obesight, unimportant: inform". This broad diversity underlines the creative and innovative potential of current theater production in German -speaking countries.

talented actors in the race for prices

In the race for the best actress, there are impressive talents. Paulina Alps next to Julia Edtmeier and Birgit Minichmayr. Simon Kirsch also fought for a place in the category of the best actor and meets strong competition, including Mervan ürmmez, who was nominated for two roles. These competitors will undoubtedly provide exciting moments during the award ceremony.

For the popular Nestroy-Vorf-III audience award, ten actresses stand for election, which the audience can choose from November 11th to 22nd, 2023. Among the nominees is the new everyone Philipp Hochmair, which underlines the importance of the price for the public.

The jury, consisting of various theater experts, has impressively demonstrated that she devoted herself to this anniversary year with commitment. A total of around 1,000 performances were attended, which shows how intense the observations and ratings were. For many, this is not just a award ceremony, but an important event in the theater landscape of Austria, which makes everyone involved visible in the industry.

The gala for the award ceremony takes place on November 24th and will be transferred to Live time to ORF III from 9:05 p.m. The audience and the theater community can be excited about the results of this important evening, where the best talents and productions are recognized. More information can be found in the current reports, including on wien.orf.at .