MAXI BLAHA
Actress. Producer. Cultural Manager.
Alma Mahler, Emilie Flöge, Bertha von Suttner, Elfriede Jellinak and Ingeborg Bachmann are just some of the impressive women Maxi Blaha has portrayed. The singer and actress studied at the University of Performing Arts in Vienna and masterclasses at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg as well as with Robert Lewis / New York and she completed her vocal training with Klaus Ofczarek and Althea Bridges. Born in Vienna, she is a long-standing ensemble member at the Burgtheater Vienna. Her English-language solo works have been performed at festivals and theatres in New York, London, Paris, Sydney, Auckland, Tehran, Rome, Oslo and Tokyo. Blaha played the lead role in the international film adaptation of Arthur Miller's ‘The Performance’, directed by Shira Piven, alongside Robert Carlyle and Jeremy Piven. In 2023, her ‘Tatort’ crime series (ORF/ARD) directed by Sabine Derflinger and the film ‘Common Ground’ (Austrian-Israeli co-production) were released, and in 2024 she will be seen in a cinema production about Hermann Melville.
Maxi Blaha / © Peter Rigaud
“In addition to my classical theatre career, my focus for several years has been on the development and portrayal of historical Austrian female figures, which I stage in the most unusual locations possible around the world.”
“I have brought Bertha von Suttner to Iran, Alma Mahler to London, Emilie Flöge to New Zealand, Elfriede Jelinek to Paris, the giantess Mariedl to Melbourne and have shown how important these strong women were and are for all of us.”
