Award-winning productions of previous years

In early years, it was the ARENA team that awarded the prize for the best production. Since 1998, an international jury presents the Jury Award to the festival’s best production.

1991 Las Siete Durmientes by Centro Dramático Elvira (Spain)
1992 Hochzeit by Het Gerugt (Netherlands), as well as Interview and A Single Evening by Left Bank Theatre Group (Israel)
1993 Topik 3 by Optik (Great Britain)
1994 Award winner unknown
1995 Pilgrims und Der weiße Dampfer by AGORA (Belgium), as well as Vremia Durak by Teatr Novogo Fronta (Russia)
1996 Just Like that Under the Clouds by MALA STANICA (Macedonia)
1997 The Tupperware Tea Party by métro-boulot-dodo (Great Britain)
1998 theatrum anatomicum by Subtheater (Netherlands)
1999 migrant und Mue – changement de peau… by Osmosis Cie – Scène Urbaine (France)
2000 AXE (Russia)
2001 sine loco by AXE (Russia)
2002 Femina by Teatr Cogitatur (Poland)
2003 Ein Hungerkünstler by Boa Companhia (Brasil)
2004 Double by Coproduction ARENA/COSmino (Germany/Polen/Great Britain)
2005 Living Room by Ben Faulks (Great Britain)
2006 The Factory by Al Seed (Great Britain)
2007 Tristan_a cocktail called love by Max Merker & Héloïse Fournier (Germany)
2008 Bad Blood – Variationen des Banalen by pulp.noir (Switzerland)

1993 Franz K. by Franz-Kafka-Theater (Czech Republic)
1994 Award winner unknown
1995 Award winner unknown

1996 Carmen Funebre by Teatr Biuro Podrózy (Poland)
1997 Award winner unknown

1998 Böer Blau by Jörg Müller (Germany)
1999 Amorph erstarrte Schmelze by Isabelle Schad und Ludger Lammers (Germany)
2000 Teatr Novogo Fronta (Czech Republic)
2001 sine loco by AXE (Russia)
2002 Einst zu einer Zeit… by Beautiful Monster (Australia), as well as Femina by Teatr Cogitatur (Poland)
2003 Stosunki by COSmino (Poland)
2004 Double by Coproduction ARENA/COSmino (Germany/Poland/Great Britain)
2005 ÖNGEL – schöner wohnen für alle by GASTSTUBE° (Switzerland)
2006 Splice by Pants on Fire (Great Britain)
2007 Tristan_a cocktail called love by Max Merker & Héloïse Fournier (Germany)
2008 Smile Off Your Face by Ontroerend Goed (Belgium)

1992 El Ombligo del Gigante by Centro Dramático Elvira (Spain)
1993 Tollhuis Quartett by Het Gerugt (Netherlands)
1994 Some of my best Friends by Left Bank Theatre Group (Israel), in collaboration with Judith Herzberg and theater erlangen, guest performance in Israel
1995 Your House is Mine by The Living Theatre New York (USA), in collaboration with theater erlangen
1996 Ein Sonnentag by AGORA (Belgium)
1997 Museum of Stories by MALA STANICA (Macedonia)
1998 anywhere – anyhow – anytime by métro-boulot-dodo (Great Britain)
1999 Erlangen lebt! by Kulturmissionare (Belgium/Netherlands), ), guest performance at trans.europa theatre festival 2000 in Hildesheim, Germany
2000 Der Tod des Pero Radakovic by Kud Nikud (Yugoslavia)
2001 Sine loco by AXE (Russia), guest performance at Donaufestival in Korneuburg, Austria and at Golden Mask festival of performing arts in St. Petersburg, Russia (awarded with a Golden Mask)
2002 Einst zu einer Zeit… by Beautiful Monster (Australia)
2003 Ein Hungerkünstler by Boa Companhia (Brasil)
2004 Double by COSmino (Poland/Great Britain)
2005 Shadows by 7K (Great Britain)
2006 Heaven by LA MARMITA (Portugal), guest performances in Portugal
2007 Oink! by Pants on Fire (Great Britain)
2008 Absent Minds by Fort Reasoning (Great Britain)
2009 Sex, God’s Entertainment & Waterloo P (working title) by God’s Entertainment (Austria)