Maria Hofstätter as a prime example of a character actress

The actress Maria Hofstätter became famous with the role of a pushy hitchhiker in the film Dog roof (2001) by Ulrich Seidl. A woman with poor impulse control who speaks the slogans of advertising. A character who doesn’t want to know anything about the rules of politeness and therefore has something of a holy fool about her. She was therefore a prototypical Seidl figure, as we had previously seen her in the Austrian director’s documentaries, for example in Animal love. Hofstätter became a representative of an unadorned Austria that babbled away in a strong dialect.