Sonja Pikart "Halb Mensch"

In the organizer's words:

Can a dystopia be fun? It can. Sonja Pikart proves it. The multi-award-winning cabaret artist and actress knows like no other how to show the teeth of the rampant doomsday fantasies. After all, who says you can't face the omnipresent challenges with wit and imagination?

Take Sonja Pikart's hand. Jump over political trenches with her, balance along human abysses and cross the gorges of social upheaval. Together you shake seemingly impregnable barriers, scratch the paint of patriarchy and dance on the ruins of the bleak present. And before you know it, the dys- has become a utopia!

In her program "Halb Mensch", you and Sonja Pikart embark on an astonishing and entertaining search for the roots of your own humanity. With "acting virtuosity and the courage to address even sensitive topics with self-irony, black humor and a lot of feeling for tragicomic nuances" (the jury of the Austrian Cabaret Prize), Sonja Pikart takes you on a trip that will make you see the future with different eyes ... after you have wiped the tears from your eyes that you will be laughing at this evening!

When Sonja Pikart looks to the future, it's also worth taking a look at the past: there, for example, you can see the audience award of the Passau Scharfrichterbeil. Or first prize at the renowned Swiss cabaret competition "Die Krönung". Or the Austrian Cabaret Prize 2024, the most important award in the Alpine republic. The latter is all the more remarkable as Sonja Pikart was simultaneously awarded the main prize (for "Halb Mensch") AND the program prize (for the horror cabaret "GHÖST"), which has never happened before in the history of this award. And while we look at these highlights in the career of an extraordinary artist and wonder what the future might bring, Sonja Pikart is on stage doing what she does best. The press calls it "top-class cabaret that is as clever as it is funny." Sonja calls it a utopia.