2023-11-05 18:46:41
The award ceremony for the 24th Nestroy Prizes began at the Vienna Volkstheater on Sunday evening. They honor outstanding stage productions and artists from the previous theater season. The gala, which will be broadcast with a time delay by ORF III, will be moderated by Nadja Bernhard and Peter Fässlacher. The first award winners of the evening included the Schauspielhaus Graz for the best federal state performance and Nick Romeo Reimann, who received the audience award.
The gala takes place on the stage of the Volkstheater production “Apokalypse Miau”, which is regarding the awarding of the theater prize “Destroy” (sic!). The first jury prize went to the best federal state performance: Claudia Bossard was very happy for her dazzling new interpretation of “Bunbury. Being serious is everything!” by Oscar Wilde at the Schauspielhaus Graz, making it the third time in a row that the theater has received the award following 2021 and 2022. The director thanked her entire team and the former Graz director Iris Laufenberg, who moved to the Deutsches Theater Berlin with the current season and who, among others, was on stage together with Frieder Langenberger, who was nominated for “Best Actor”, to accept the award .
The audience award, determined by online voting by ORF III, went to Nick Romeo Reimann, who was last seen at the Volkstheater in Ingeborg Bachmann’s “Malina” in the stage version by Claudia Bauer. Reimann used his acceptance speech for a political statement: “At a time when the right and right-wing extremists are sometimes the second strongest force and a right-wing candidate for chancellor thanks all ‘real women’ for having their men’s backs and a Jewish cemetery in Vienna is burning – during this time we all have a stage in the heart of the city where we can let complexity, diversity and empathy speak,” said Reimann.
The jury is made up of seven local critics. The chairwoman of the jury is Alexandra Althoff, who was deputy artistic director at the Burgtheater from 2019 to 2022.
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