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 for children and adults have been shown in Norway, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Italy and Nicaragua. 

Grants and awards

  • 2023

    playwright in residence at the Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting

  • 2022

    nominated for the National Ibsen Award 2022 for Strawberry

    playwright in residence at the Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting

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

  • 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