Nelly Winterhalder

Vita

Nelly Winterhalder, born in Germany in 1979, is a playwright, director and translator. In addition to a master's degree in playwriting from the Academy of Theater in Oslo, she has a master's degree in literary studies and acting education from Munich.

Winterhalder moved to Norway in 2006 and since worked in a number of different roles and languages. In 2019, she established the live-art-cooperative Ann Sam Bell. Nelly made her debut as a playwright in Norway with alt i boks (Everything sorted) at the Norwegian Drama Festival in 2009. Since then, her works have been shown in Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Nicaragua. 

Priser og stipend

  • 2022

    nominated for the National Ibsen Award 2022 for Strawberry

    artist's grant from the Writer's Guild of Norway

  • 2022-2023

    playwright in residence at the Norwegian Centre of New Playwriting

  • 2010-2022

    supported by Arts Council Norway, Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting, Fritt Ord, Fond for Lyd og Bilde, Seanse Volda

  • 2020

    selected for Bergen Drama Festival with Storsenter

  • 2019

    artist's grant from the Writer's Guild of Norway

    selected for Norwegian Drama Festival with Høna, egget og reven / The Hen, the Egg and the Fox

  • 2018

    ​Baden-Württembergischer Jugendtheaterpreis for the German translation of Kristofer Blindheim Grønskag's Satelliten am Nachthimmel

  • 2017

    selected for Norwegian Drama Festival with Reven og ulven / Fox and Wolf

  • 2015

    winner of Eurodram Germany for the German translation of Maria Tryti Vennerød's Die Prüfung / Nasjonal prøve

  • 2011

    winner of the audience's awara at Secondofestival Switzerland with Ene, mene, muh

    selected for Norwegian Drama Festival with Gunnar er en annen

  • 2010

    selected for Forum of Young European Playwrights at New Plays of Europe, Biennale at Wiesbaden, Germany

  • 2009

    nominated for Retzhofer Literaturpreis in Austria for einen spaß hat die frau / så moro hun har det

    selected for Norwegian Drama Festival with alt i boks