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Lukas Miko \u00a9 Diagonale\/Lilly Moerz<\/p><\/div>\n
As part of the festival opening, on April 4, 2024 the Diagonale will award the Grand Diagonale Acting Prize for services to Austrian film culture<\/strong> for the 17th time. This year the award goes to the extraordinary character actor<\/strong> Lukas Miko. The actor, author and filmmaker will accept the award, presented by WIENER TIMES, in person in Graz on the opening evening.<\/p>\nWe at Diagonale express our warmest congratulations!<\/p>\n
Jury Statement
\n<\/strong>\u201cIt is impossible to imagine screens in Austria without his presence. The characters he embodies gain in color and depth thanks to his acting. For many years, Lukas Miko has been one of the great standbys of Austrian film as an artist who always puts himself at the service of the work with confident dedication. His outstanding performances range from the student Max in Michael Haneke\u2019s 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994) to the drug addict in Adrian Goiginger\u2019s The Best of All Worlds (2017), the overwhelmed asylum director in David Clay Diaz\u2019s Me, We (2021) to the journalist who uncovers an assault scandal in the Austrian Ski Association in Antonin Svoboda\u2019s Persona Non Grata.
\nMiko is always incisive, always profound. And he is also the rare case of a quick-change artist who acts without vanity \u2013 this can also be seen in his roles in the films The Night of 1000 Hours, Mademoiselle Paradis, Angelo, Chess Story and Stella: A Life.<\/p>\nThe fact that he, like many extraordinary character actors, leaves lasting impressions not only with leading and title roles, but also always for his intelligent, multidimensional acting, his sharply drawn characters, and his ensemble awareness, was just one more reason for the acting jury to unanimously select him for the Grand Diagonale Acting Prize for 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Lukas Miko in Persona Non Grata<\/em> \u00a9 Filmladen Coop99<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n
Biography
\n<\/strong>Lukas Miko (born April 4, 1971) is an award-winning actor, screenwriter, and director. Born in Vienna, he trained as an actor at the renowned Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna and at the Conservatoire National Sup\u00e9rieur d\u2019Art Dramatique in Paris.
\nMiko then played in the ensembles of the Residenztheater in Munich and the Burgtheater in Vienna, among others, and worked as a freelance stage actor in various productions. In addition to his stage work, Miko is one of Austria\u2019s most prominent film and television actors. He was awarded the 2018 Austrian Film Prize for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the heroin-addicted stepfather in Adrian Goiginger\u2019s The Best of All Worlds. At the award ceremony, Miko gave a highly acclaimed speech in which he, as one of the initiators of #KlappeAuf, spoke out against incitement of xenophobia and populism , and in favor of solidarity. Miko received the Diagonale Acting Prize in 2021 for his role in Me, We. Behind the camera, Miko also works as a screenwriter and filmmaker. He filmed his first screenplay in 2006 under the title The Frozen Sea, and the 30-minute film was awarded the Golden Lola for the best German short film in 2007, among other prizes.
\nLukas Miko is represented at the upcoming Diagonale by two films,
\nfirstly as a journalist in Persona Non Grata<\/strong> by Antonin Svoboda in the Annual Review, and secondly in the short film Er so Sie so<\/strong> by Benjamin Heisenberg.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The Prize: An Artistic Commodity<\/strong>
\nIn the area of encounter between design, craftsmanship, art and decor, the WIENER TIMES label , which comprises Susanne Schneider and Johannes Schweiger, produces objects of everyday. use The products actively question and push the boundaries between abstraction and function.<\/p>\nMade possible by:
\nlegero united \u2013 the shoemakers | Initiator of con-tempus.eu.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Acting jury 2024: Ute Baumhackl (Chief Reporter Culture & Society, Kleine Zeitung) Zeynep Buyra\u00e7 (Actress) Christian Konrad (Head of Dep. Film, ORF) Marion Mitterhammer (Actress) Goran Rebi\u0107 (Director & Writer) Diagonale 2024 Opening Thursday, April 4 | 7:30 p.m. Helmut List Halle, Graz With the Austrian premiere of Ruth Beckermann’s Favoriten. Opening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-86219","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}