Name: Alfred-Kerr-Acting-Award
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The Alfred Kerr Acting Award recognises the outstanding achievement by a young actor in one of the 10 most remarkable productions invited to Theatertreffen each year. This year’s juror was the actor, voice artist and author Matthias Brandt. Paulina Alpen received the award for her outstanding performance in the production “Die Welt im Rücken” from Schauspiel Stuttgart.

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<a href="${link:{uuid:{b7f6f22c-3ce3-4ce3-9678-6fe8ca6fcc41},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/A/paulina-alpen}}}">Paulina Alpen</a>&nbsp;– Winner<a href="${link:{uuid:{d7accfb5-50b3-4054-adff-eb8bd125b063},repository:{artists},path:{/bfs-mediathek/B/matthias-brandt}}}">Matthias Brandt</a> – Actor and juror Alfred-Kerr-Acting-Award 2026 Matthew Kneale – Grandson of Alfred Kerr and son of Judith Kerr-Kneale Carmen Steinert – Actor and winner Alfred-Kerr-Acting-Award 2025

The Alfred Kerr Acting Award recognises the outstanding achievement by a young actor in one of the 10 most remarkable productions invited to Theatertreffen each year. This year’s juror was the actor, voice artist and author Matthias Brandt. Paulina Alpen received the award for her outstanding performance in the production “Die Welt im R&uuml;cken” from Schauspiel Stuttgart.

This award comes with a sum of 5,000 Euro and was awarded for the 30th&nbsp;time on the final weekend of the festival at Haus der Berliner Festspiele.The Alfred Kerr Acting Award was initiated in 1991 in memory of the Berlin theatre critic Alfred Kerr by his children Judith und Michael Kerr in conjunction with the Pressestiftung Tagesspiegel and Berliner Festspiele/Theatertreffen. It is offered by the Alfred Kerr Foundation with support from Theatertreffen. Additional support is provided by Verlag Der Tagesspiegel, the Hartung family and Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH. Each year a noted theatrical personality acts as the award’s juror.<a href="${link:{uuid:{6e52dc53-2d4a-4717-8141-e03a8e97b6c0},repository:{website},path:{/bfs-de/theatertreffen/das-festival/preise/alfred-kerr-preis}}}">All award winners since 1991</a>

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