Borštnik Ring Award and Borštnik Awards

Contact

Borštnikov prstan in Borštnikove nagrade

Slovenska 27, SI-2000 Maribor

http://www.borstnikovo.si

borstnikovo@sng-mb.si

Phone386 (0) 2 250 6100

Managed bySlovene National Theatre Maribor

Organised byMaribor Theatre Festival

Alja Predan, Festival Director

alja.predan@sng-mb.si

Phone386 (0) 51 675 251

The Borštnik Ring Award and Borštnik Awards are bestowed at the central festival of Slovene theatre, the Maribor Theatre Festival, held every year in Maribor. Every year the Borštnik Ring Award, the highest award for lifetime achievement in Slovene theatre, is also presented by a separate expert jury to an actor or actress who has left a major legacy to the Slovene stage.

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The Borštnik Awards for achievement in repertory and independent theatres include the Grand Prix for best performance, Borštnik Award for directing, awards for actors and young actors, Borštnik Award for dramaturgy or artistic direction, and awards for stage design, costume design, music, make-up design and/or sound design, the latter ones varying from year to year. The Dominik Smole Award is awarded for best translation or adaptation of a dramatic text. The jury bestows also a Special Borštnik Jury Award, while the Association of Theatre Critics and Researchers of Slovenia gives award for the best production of the past season.

Recent Borštnik Awards

In 2009 the award for best performance went to Ivica Buljan's staging of Heiner Müller's Macbeth After Shakespeare, co-produced by Mini Theatre, Cankarjev dom, Novo kazalište Zagreb and ZeKaEm, Croatia. The award for best direction was given to Jernej Lorenci for his staging of Oresteia, produced by Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Ljubljana - Drama.

The new translation of Aeschylus's play by Marko Marinčič was awarded with the Dominik Smole Award for best translation.

The Grand Prix for the Best Performance in 2014 went to Rudi Šeligo The Wedding, directed by Jernej Lorenci and performed by the Slovene National Theatre Drama Ljubljana, a Special Borštnik Jury Award went to Modern Nô Plays directed by Mateja Koležnik (Borštnik Award for Directing), and performed by the Slovene Permanent Theatre, Trieste.

See also

• Maribor Theatre Festival
• Slovene National Theatre Maribor

External links

• Maribor Theatre Festival website
• e-Gallery of the Borštnik Ring award winners 1979–2014 on Sigledal.org
• A list of Borštnik Ring award winners on Wikipedia (in Slovenian)

Gallery

Minu Kjuder, the Borštnik Ring laureate of the Maribor Theatre Festival in 2009.

Janez Hočevar – Rifle, recipient of the Borštnik Ring Award, with Alja Predan (Maribor Theatre Festival director) and Milena Zupančič, 2010.

Janez Hočevar – Rifle, recipient of the Borštnik Ring Award, 2010.

A still from Republika Slovenija [The Republic of Slovenia], a docudrama about the arms trafficking events from the early years of Slovenia. Shown at Mladinsko Showcase in 2016 and that same year also given the Borštnik Jury Award.