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 byBorštnik 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 Borštnik 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.

The Borštnik Awards for achievement in repertory and independent theatres include award for best performance, best direction, best actor, award for aesthetic breakthrough, award for special achievement (set, light, or costume design, musical score, etc.), and the Dominik Smole Award for best translation or adaptation of a dramatic text.

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.

Five equal awards for best actors went to Polona Juh for her role in Oresteia ((SNG Drama Ljubljana), Marko Mandič for his role in Macbeth After Shakespeare, Nataša Matjašec for her role in Wind in the Pines (Slovene National Theatre (SNG) Maribor), Igor Samobor for Oresteia, and Branko Šturbej for his role in SNG Maribor's Peer Gynt. The recipient of the award for best young actor was Jure Henigman.

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

Three awards for other artistic achievement were awarded to Marko Japelj for set design, Peter Penko for musical score, and to Matjaž Berger for the unique performing discourse in the performance Portrait of a Lady produced by Anton Podbevšek Theatre and Teatri di Vita Bologna, Italy.

See also

• Borštnik Theatre Festival
• Slovene National Theatre Maribor

External links

• Borštnik Meeting Theatre Festival website (in English)
• Slovene National Theatre Maribor website
• Article on 2009 Festival by Albert Kos (pdf), Sinfo Magazine (pp. 22)
• Almanac of the 44th Borštnik Theatre Festival (pdf)
• Jury Report of the 44th Borštnik Theatre Festival
• Interview with the recipient of the Borštnik Ring Award Janez Hočevar Rifle from Misli slovensko STA website (in English)

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.