Nestroy Prize for HfMT directing graduate

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Rieke Süßkow, a graduate of the HfMT Theater Academy’s directing program, was awarded Austria’s most prestigious theater prize in November. She won in the “Best Emerging Female Artist” category for her world premiere production of Anna Neata’s “Oxytocin Baby,” which she developed for the Schauspielhaus Wien and staged at the Odeon Theater.

Rieke Süßkow sees the award as a success for the entire team and advocates for better rehearsal conditions. Before her, graduates Matthias Spaan (2020) and Moritz Beichl (2019) also received the “Up-and-Coming” Nestroy Prize.

In addition, “Adern” by Lisa Wentz was honored in the “Best Play” category. David Bösch directed it at the Akademietheater Wien. In 2020, Lisa Wentz participated as a student in the festival “DRAMA! – A Space for Reflection for Young Theater Makers,” organized by the Theater Academy in cooperation with the Dramatic Writing program at the UdK Berlin.

Biography
Rieke Süßkow, born in Berlin in 1990, first studied theater, film, and media studies in Vienna, then directing at the Theater Academy in Hamburg from 2014 to 2019. Her world premiere of Kevin Rittberger’s “IKI.radikalmensch” at the Theater Osnabrück was invited to the 2020 Mülheim Theater Days as well as to the “Radikal Jung” festival at the Munich Volkstheater. Süßkow is a co-founder of the theater collective “Hallimasch-Komplex.”