Bettina Stucky Has Been Announced as Juror for the 2025 Alfred-Kerr-Acting-Award

This award, which comes with a prize sum of 5,000 Euros, honours the outstanding performance by a young actor in one of the ten most remarkable productions invited to Theatertreffen. This year’s juror is the Swiss theatre and film actor Bettina Stucky. The award ceremony will take place on the conclusion of the 62nd Theatertreffen on Sunday, 18 May 2025 at Haus der Berliner Festspiele.    

The Alfred-Kerr-Acting-Award was initiated in 1991 by Judith and Michael Kerr, children of the Berlin theatre critic Alfred Kerr, together with Pressestiftung Tagesspiegel and Berliner Festspiele/Theatertreffen. Since then, it has distinguished an outstanding performance by a young actor in one of the 10 most remarkable productions invited to Theatertreffen. Every year, a different renowned theatre personality serves as juror. The award comes with a prize sum of 5,000 Euros and is bestowed by the Alfred-Kerr-Foundation with support from Berliner Festspiele. Further support is provided by the publishing house Der Tagesspiegel, the Hartung family and Gustav Kiepenheuer Bühnenvertriebs-GmbH.

Bettina Stucky was born in Bern in 1969. Due to her parents’ professions – her father was an archaeologist, her mother was an art historian – she spent her childhood in Beirut and Athens. 
She studied acting at the Bern Academy of the Arts. Apart from joining the acting companies at Wuppertaler Bühnen, Theater Basel, Schauspielhaus Zürich as well as Volkshochbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz in Berlin for several years. Bettina Stucky also worked as a freelance actor in numerous productions and as a guest at various theatres including Theaterhaus Jena, Staatstheater Kassel, Schaubühne Berlin, Münchner Kammerspiele, Vienna’s Burgtheater and MC93 in Paris (formerly Théâtre Bobigny). 
She has an especially close working relationship with director Christoph Marthaler. Furthermore, she has regularly worked with Luk Perceval, René Pollesch, Stefan Pucher, Anna Viebrock and Jossi Wieler. 

She became a member of the acting company of Deutsches SchauSpielHaus Hamburg in 2013/14. Currently, she can be seen in the production “BernardaAlbas Haus” (directed by Katie Mitchell), which was invited to this year’s Theatertreffen. In addition, Bettina Stucky regularly works in film and television. 

During the 2002 Theatertreffen, Bettina Stucky received the Alfred-Kerr-Acting-Award for her role as Natalya in “Three Sisters” (directed by Stefan Pucher) as well as her performance in the ensemble of Schubert’s “Die schöne Müllerin” (directed by Christoph Marthaler) from juror Elisabeth Trissenaar. Alongside Fabian Hinrichs and Valery Tscheplanowa, Bettina Stucky is now also both a winner and a juror of the Alfred-Kerr-Acting-Award.

She has received numerous further awards including the 2029 Swiss Grand Prix Theatre Prize, the 2007 Swiss Television Award and the 2004 Swiss Film Award. Moreover, she was a jury member for the Mühlheim Dramatists’ Awards (2015) and Berliner Autor*innentage at Deutsches Theater (2018). 

More detailed information on the Alfred-Kerr-Acting-Award is available in the Database on Berliner Festspiele’s website. 

Former jurors include Edith Clever, Maren Eggert, Samuel Finzi, Martina Gedeck, Marianne Hoppe, Nina Hoss, Imogen Kogge, Eva Mattes, Ulrich Matthes, Bernhard Minetti, Ulrich Mühe, Franz Rogowski, Edgar Selge, Thomas Thieme, Gerd Wameling, Martin Wuttke and, in 2024, Ursina Lardi. 

Former award winners include Kathrin Angerer, Lina Beckmann, Benny Claessens, August Diehl, Dominik Dos-Reis, Fritzi Haberlandt, Julia Häusermann, Fabian Hinrichs, Steffi Kühnert, Johannes Nussbaum, Wiebke Puls, Samouil Stoyanov, Devid Striesow, Valery Tscheplanowa, Johanna Wokalek and, last year, Nikita Buldyrski.