O.E. Hasse Prize 2019 to Julia Windischbauer
The O.E. Hasse Foundation awards the O.E. Hasse Prize 2019 to Julia Windischbauer, 3rd year student at the Otto Falckenberg School, Munich. The prize is endowed with 5,000 euros and is awarded annually in alternation to students of the Otto Falckenberg School and the Berlin Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch in order to promote outstanding talent. The award ceremony will take place on 27 May 2019 at the Münchner Kammerspiele.
Born in Linz, Austria, in 1996, Julia Windischbauer received artistic training in acting, singing, ballet, stepdance and jazz at the Musical Theatre Academy Puchenau while still at school from 2008 to 2014. In the two years until she began her acting studies in October 2016, she took part in performances at the Landestheater Linz, the Chamber of Labour Linz and the theatre club of the "Junge Burg" in Vienna.
From the jury statement by Klaus Völker: "Julia Windischbauer works out roles in her very own way. Stories reveal themselves to her less through images, much more through words. Reading again and again, sensing the charm and meaning of the stories, she opens up the most diverse facets of a character. It was a stroke of luck for her that Nicola Hümpel organised a workshop at the Otto Falckenberg School, which resulted in the co-production Heaven in Pityent, a project with students and three musicians from Nico and the Navigators' about the longing for letting go, about calculated and uncontrollable lapses into the body's own ecstasies. In the performance, which was also seen as a guest performance in Berlin, Julia Windischbauer can optimally bring her multi-layered character drawing to bear, her concentrated, strictly structured body control, her sensitivity. With her, everything really hangs by a thread. An emotional artist. An expert with whom nothing is 'made'. No posturing, always poise."
The O.E. Hasse Prize has been awarded since 1981 by the O.E. Hasse Foundation, which is supervised by the Academy of Arts. The Academy thus fulfils the legacy of stage and film actor Otto Eduard Hasse (1903-1978) to promote the next generation of actors. The prize is awarded by the board of the foundation, which includes the chairmen Klaus Missbach (Vienna) and Max Wiener (Zurich) as well as André Jung (Munich) and Klaus Völker (Berlin), who are both members of the Academy of Arts. The winners of the last few years were Noah Saavedra (Berlin, 2018), William Bartley Cooper (Munich, 2017), Joshua Jaco Seelenbinder (Berlin, 2016) and Merlin Sandmeyer (Munich, 2015).
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