Ute Baumhackl<\/strong> Christian Konrad<\/strong> Maria K\u00f6stlinger<\/strong> Johanna Orsini<\/strong> Michael Sturminger<\/strong> Diagonale 2025 Opening<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday, March 27 | 7.30 p.m. With the Austrian premiere<\/strong> of Florian Pochlatko’s How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other World<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n Opening sponsor: Co-sponsor: <\/p>\n Previous award winners<\/a><\/p>\n FOR SERVICES TO AUSTRIAN FILM CULTURE<\/strong><\/p>\n AWARD WINNER: INGE MAUX<\/strong><\/p>\n Inge Maux \u00a9 Saskia Pavek<\/p><\/div>\n As part of the festival opening, on March 27, 2025, for the 18th time, the Diagonale will award the Grand Diagonale Acting Award<\/strong> for services to Austrian film culture<\/strong>. This year the award goes to the charismatic and versatile character actress Inge Maux<\/strong>. The actress and artist will accept the award, designed by Maru\u0161a Sagadin, in person in Graz on opening night.<\/p>\n We at Diagonale express our warmest congratulations!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n JURY STATEMENT <\/p>\n Inge Maux as Perl Akin in Murer \u2013 Anatomie eines Prozesses<\/em> \u00a9 Prisma Film<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n BIOGRAPHY Inge Maux lives in Artstetten, Lower Austria, and in addition to her work as an actress and singer, she also works as a photographer and painter. At the upcoming Diagonale, she can be seen in \u00c8 a questo punto che nasce il bisogno di fare storia<\/em><\/strong> by Constanze Ruhm.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n THE PRIZE: An Artwork by Maru\u0161a Sagadin
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\n<\/strong>\u201cShe is unmistakable. Inge Maux takes on her roles with enormous dedication and without restraint. Whether comedic, dramatic, or tragic, her acting has texture and depth. She always puts herself and the full spectrum of her acting talent entirely at the service of the cause. The result is characters that sparkle. For this reason, she is known as a versatile character actress who couldn\u2019t be more authentic. Over the course of her long career, her art has been seen on the stage and in musicals, in television films and in the cinema, not to mention films such as Christian Frosch\u2019s Murer<\/a>, Elisabeth Scharang\u2019s Jack<\/a>, Ulrich Seidl\u2019s Paradies: Liebe<\/a> and Rimini<\/a>.<\/em>
\nShe often plays key characters in the story and proves herself to be one of the great personalities of Austrian film. She is always absorbed in what she is playing: she can be exuberantly funny, deeply touching the next moment, and sometimes even frightening. She knows no vanity, and justifies her roles in such a way that the audience easily discovers warmth and humanity in her characters. Despite all this, there is something ageless about her, a captivating childlike curiosity that makes her, like all the greats in her field, inimitable. The depth, authenticity and subtlety with which she endows all her roles made the jury\u2019s decision an easy one: they voted unanimously to award Inge Maux the Grand Acting Award of this Diagonale for her extraordinary services to Austrian film.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n![\"Inge](\"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Inge-Maux_in_MURER-\u00a9-Prisma-Film-1067x600-1-524x295.jpg\")
\n<\/strong>Inge Maux was born in Upper Austria in 1944. Her uncle, the composer Richard Maux (1893\u20131971), recognized and encouraged her artistic talent and convinced her parents to let her attend the Schauspielschule Krauss acting school in Vienna. Engagements as an actress took Maux to the Cologne Schauspielhaus and the Zurich Schauspielhaus, followed by further roles in various musicals, including at the Theater an der Wien, the Zurich Opera House and the Raimund Theater. She has also made guest appearances at the Residenztheater in Munich, the Theater an der Josefstadt, the Ernst-Deutsch-Theater in Hamburg, the Sommerspiele Perchtoldsdorf and the Akademietheater, among others. From 2010 to 2014 Maux was a member of the ensemble of the Vienna Volkstheater. In 2024 she made her debut at the Burgtheater in Thomas Bernhard\u2019s play Heldenplatz<\/em> under the direction of Frank Castorf. Since 2015 she has also devoted an increasing amount of time to filmed performances. In 2016, she was nominated for the Austrian Film Award in the Best Supporting Actor category for her role in Elisabeth Scharang\u2019s Jack<\/em><\/a>. She finally received the award in 2019 for her portrayal of Perl Akin in Christian Frosch\u2019s Murer \u2013 Anatomy of a Trial<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The work of Maru\u0161a Sagadin (b. 1978 in Ljubljana, Slovenia) operates at the interface between private and public space, and breaks with established codes for viewing works of art. Using humorous methods and exaggerations, she addresses visibility and undermines the social discourse that surrounds her. The designed objects refer to elements of pop and subculture, and the interplay between color and form in her works takes up elements of the present.<\/p>\n