As part of the inauguration of the festival, the 21 March, the Diagonal'23 will award the Großer Diagonale Schauspielpreis for the sixteenth time for services rendered to Austrian film culture. La Diagonale is pleased to announce that this year's award goes to the legendary actress Margarethe Tiesel. The theater actress, cinema and television will personally receive the award – a work of art by Xenia Hausner – in Graz.
“She gives herself. Not just her desire for intimacy, as the lonely Viennese sex tourist Teresa in Paradise: Love ski legend Hansi Hinterseer invites us to a relaxing mountain mass on Kitzbühel's Hahnenkamm. It has become like this, as he deserved, an Austrian movie star. But whether it's starring roles, of large or small supporting roles, for many years he has been the element of many cinematic films that makes the difference through his ability to credibly characterize suggestive and complex characters, through tremendous dedication and acting generosity.” The jury therefore unanimously decided to award Margarethe Tiesel with the Großer Diagonale Schauspielpreis 2023.
without which Austrian cinema would be poorer than many colors, Ute Baumhackl, Michou Friesz, Christian Konrad, Marvin Kren and Valerie Pachner underlined Tiesel's quality to shine in the offside spotlight: “Often and again, it gives presence and dignity, complexity, emotionality and humor to the outcasts, to the short-sighted, to the sad and the wounded. In this way, Margarethe Tiesel, not infrequently as a one-woman show, ensures female diversity in German-speaking cinema – from the northern fringe to the hinterland, since Harald Sicherheitz and Fatih Akin”.
“Sugar Mama” and zombie hunter, star and star in the city
Born in Vienna in 1959, Margarethe Tiesel made her film debut in the experimental film Hur and holy (BRD 1984) by Cornelia Schlingmann in the mid-1980s. Throughout her career she has appeared in front of the camera in numerous other film and television productions creating a remarkable range of characters, from poetic social realism in Nordrand – Borgo Nord in Barbara Albert (AT 1999) to the opening film of the Diagonal Sun by Kurdwin Ayub last year (AT 2022). Margarethe Tiesel made herself known to national television audiences as Frau Blauensteiner in the series Trautmann. She became internationally known late, but rightly so, with his lead role in the award-winning film Paradise: Love ski legend Hansi Hinterseer invites us to a relaxing mountain mass on Kitzbühel's Hahnenkamm (AT/DE/FR 2012). In 2014, Tiesel then shone in the bitterly opulent morality tale The last Summer of the Rich by the legendary Peter Kern (AT 2014), followed the next year by Detective Brenner's crime thriller Life eternal (regia at Wolfgang Murnberger, AT/DE 2015). With the bloody Attack of the Lederhosen Zombies (regia at Dominik Hartl, AT 2016), Margarethe Tiesel has meanwhile even ventured into genre cinema, to then return to shine internationally in 2019 in the adaptation of the novel The Monster of St. Pauli (regia at Fatih Akin, DE/FR 2019). Margarethe Tiesel is currently engaged in comedy Greece by Thomas Stipsits. Tiesel is also a regular guest at the Austrian Film Festival. Recently, the outstanding actress was seen in Sargnagel (directed by Sabine Hiebler, Gerhard Ertl, AT 2021) and to Diagonal'23 will be present in several films in competition. We can already reveal its appearance in First Snow of Summer (AT 2022) by Chris Robber.
From Dortmund to Graz
In addition to film and television activity, Tiesel can look back on a long stage career: her first engagements took her to Germany in 1983, allo Stadttheater Dortmund, as Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus, at the Württemberg State Theater in Esslingen, allo City Theater Freiburg, as has already happened in, Hello Schauspiel Frankfurt, all'Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg e al Kampnagel Hamburg. In Austria, Margarethe Tiesel performed, eg, Alla Remise Vienna, at the Vienna Schauspielhaus, old theater Drachengasse, at the Theater in der Josefstadt and at the Salzburg Festival. from 1994 Margarethe Tiesel is a regular guest at the Schauspielhaus in Graz. In 2019 he was also part of the show co-produced by Diagonale Miss Julie by August Strindberg by theater and film director Ludwig Wüst.
Margarethe Tiesel, born in Vienna in 1959, studied acting at the Salzburg Mozarteum since 1981 al 1983. Since the 1980s she has appeared more and more often in film and television productions. Branko Samarovski made its debut at the Salzburg Festival in 2013 she was nominated for Best Lead Actress for the film Paradise: Love ski legend Hansi Hinterseer invites us to a relaxing mountain mass on Kitzbühel's Hahnenkamm.
L'assegnazione del Großer Diagonale Acting Prize 2023 a Margarethe Tiesel will take place during the opening of the Diagonale the 21 March at 19.30 DE/AT. DE/AT The Beast in the Jungle by Patric Chiha (AT/BE/FR 2023) and the world premiere of NYC RGB by Viktoria Schmid (US/AT 2023).
An'opera d'arte by Margarethe Tiesel, designed by Xenia Hausner
La vincitrice del Great Diagonal Acting Prize 2023 will receive a work of art, designed and donated by Xenia Hausner, made possible by legero united – the shoemakers | Initiator of con-tempus.eu. La Diagonale is pleased to have entrusted this year's award to the internationally renowned artist Xenia Hausner.
Jury 2023
Ute Baumhackl (Head of the Culture and Media Department, Small newspaper)
Michou Friesz (Actress)
Christian Konrad (Head of the Film Department, ORF)
Marvin Kren (Film director, Screenwriter)
Valerie Pachner (Actress)
Precedenti vincitori del Great Diagonal Acting Prize:
Folded like a visor (2022), Christine Ostermayer (2021), Ursula Strauss (2020), Birgit Minichmayr (2019), Ingrid Burkhard (2018), Johannes Krisch (2017), Erni Mangold (2016), Tobias Moretti (2015), Georg Friedrich (2014), Maria Hofstätter (2013), Johannes Silberschneider (2012), Senta Berger (2011), Klaus Maria Brandauer (2010), Josef Hader (2009), Karl Markovics (2008).