Theater Prize of the Federal Government 2023
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse was awarded the Federal Theater Prize on 11.10.2023! Thanks to Minister of State for Culture Claudia Roth and the International Theater Institute – Center Federal Republic of Germany (ITI) in cooperation with the Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V. „We are happy about the award – about the award for the work at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, which now spans more than a decade and – briefly outlined – strives for decolonization and intersectionality, for the visibility of Black people and People of Color, for access and social participation, for the expansion of the arts and for a change in society with the help of the arts“ – Wagner Carvalho, artistic director and managing director of Ballhaus Naunynstraße

Monica Bleibtreu Prize 2013 for Die Saison der Krabben (The Season of Crabs)
The play Die Saison der Krabben, written and directed by Hakan Savaş Mican, was awarded the Monica Bleibtreu Prize in the category „Contemporary Drama“ at the Privattheatertage Hamburg. The play opened the 2011/12 season at Ballhaus Naunynstraße in September 2011 and, under the musical direction of Sinem Altan, combines the scenic action with Anatolian and German songs as well as soul and jazz music. This is the second time in a row that Ballhaus Naunynstraße has received the Monica Bleibtreu Prize for contemporary drama; last year, Mican’s play Pauschalreise – Die 1. Generation, in a production by Lukas Langhoff, had already won the award.

Urban Sounds Clash Classic invited to the Theatertreffen der Jugend 2013
Urban Sounds Clash Classic is a film and music project following in the footsteps of the film Berlin – The Symphony of the Big City. Together with young people, a semi-documentary image and sound artwork was recorded and composed, capturing the different facets of Berlin from the perspective of young people. Urban Sounds Clash Classic is a project of Kultursprünge e.V. in cooperation with akademie der autodidakten. The performance as part of the Theatertreffen der Jugend could be seen in may 2013 at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Moses Mendelssohn Prize for Shermin Langhoff
Shermin Langhoff will receive the „Moses-Mendelssohn-Preis zur Förderung der Toleranz gegenüber Andersdenkenden und zwischen den Völkern und Religionen“ (Moses Mendelssohn Prize for the promotion of tolerance towards those who think differently and between people and religions) from the state of Berlin. The award ceremony took place on Sept. 6, 2012, 7 p.m., at the Mendelssohn Remise on Jägerstrasse.

Pauschalreise awarded the Monica Bleibtreu Prize
Pauschalreise – Die 1. Generation by Hakan Savaş Mican in the production by Lukas Langhoff was awarded the Monica Bleibtreu Prize „for the best contemporary drama“ at the 2012 Privattheatertage Hamburg.

Awards at the International Theater Festival in Toruń
Verrücktes Blut by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje directed by Nurkan Erpulat was awarded 2nd prize in the „Best Play“ category at the KONTAKT International Theatre Festival in Toruń (Poland) in May 2012. Sesede Terziyan received the 1st prize in the category „Best Actress“.

Nomination „Bestes Volkstheater“
Nomination in the context of the B.Z. Culture Prize, February 2012

Ballhaus Naunynstraße Awarded Theater 2011
Awarded by the authors of the magazine „Deutsche Bühne“

Verrücktes Blut – Play of the Year 2011

Nurkan Erpulat – Young Director of the Year
Verrücktes Blut by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje was chosen by the critics of the magazine „Theater heute“ as play of the year 2011 and Nurkan Erpulat as young director of the year.

Shermin Langhoff – European KAIROS Culture Prize
On February 27, 2011, Shermin Langhoff will be awarded the European KAIROS Culture Prize of the Alfred Toepfer Foundation F.V.S. at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (December 9, 2010). – Press Release

Hakan Savaş Mican – Scholarship Holder of the Academy der Künste
The director Hakan Savaş Mican is a fellow of the Akademie der Künste/Junge Akademie in the field of performing arts in 2011 (16.11.2010). – Press release

Verrücktes Blut – Nomination for the Friedrich Luft Preis
Verrücktes Blut by Nurkan Erpulat and Jens Hillje has been nominated for the Friedrich Luft Preis (21.9.2010)

Sesede Terziyan – Nomination as Best Young Artist
Sesede Terziyan was nominated by Renate Klett in the category „Best Newcomer Artist“ for her portrayal of the „Preisträgerin“ in Lö Bal Almanya in the annual critics‘ poll of Theaterheute in August 2010. (Theaterheute Yearbook 2010, August 2010)

Die Dunkelkammer – Nomination for the Monica Bleibtreu Award of the PRIVATTHEATERTAGE Hamburg 2016
Die Dunkelkammer by Kostis Kallivretakis has been nominated for the Monica Bleibtreu Award.

Sesperado – Revolution of Color invited to the Theatertreffen der Jugend 2017
Sesperado – Revolution of Color is based on the novel Kara Günlük – The Secret Diaries of Sesperado by Mutlu Ergün. In collaboration with the two theater experts Murat Dikenci and Hasan H. Taşgın, nearly 20 young postmigrants and people of color tested various strategies on the topic of everyday racism on the stage of Ballhaus Naunynstraße as part of the akademie der autodidakten. The performance as part of the Theatertreffen der Jugend could be seen on June 5th in 2017 at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

Walking Large – Nomination for the Monica Bleibtreu Award of the PRIVATTHEATERTAGE Hamburg 2018
Walking Large directed by Atif Mohammed Nor Hussein has been nominated for the Monica Bleibtreu Award. This play, which marks actor and screenwriter Toks Körner’s debut as a playwright, was commissioned by Ballhaus Naunynstraße. It is an overdue, contemporary, self-determined representation of Black men on a German stage.