Lisa Christ is awarded the most important German cabaret award. They are fueled – and fueled – by social injustices.
Lisa Christ has been on stage for more than half of her life. After “hitting” the poetry slam in 2007 at the age of 16, she won the Swiss Under 20 Slam Championship in 2011.
Christ soon went to the final rounds of international competitions. She received many sponsorship prizes and scholarships and landed on the comedy scene in 2018 most recently when she won the Olten cabaret casting.
Legend:
As a millennial, Lisa Christ uses social media just as skillfully as the theater stage.
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Since then, she has written two stage shows, a book and the many SRF “Zytlupen”. Now Christ’s list of awards is supplemented by the most important German cabaret award: the Salzburg Stier 2025.
The political the private
Lisa Christ often starts from the very personal in her stage texts. In her current program “LOVE*” she brings with her a love poem she wrote herself when she was 14 years old. It ends with the clear lines “You breathe for me / but you don’t know that / You only love yourself / and I know that”.
From there she explores how the construction of the “relationship” works, what apparent absurdities arise around it and she quickly ends up in the middle of a tangible socio-political problem: the social inequality between men and women.
“According to a recent study, unmarried, childless women are the happiest population group – they also live longer than married women with children,” she says on stage. On the other hand, married men earned more and lived slightly longer. She sums up: “Absolutely. Women’s energy has to go somewhere!”
Lisa Christ is about social injustice. Be it on stage, be it the subject of the feminist podcast “Faust und Kupfer” with Miriam Suter, or as an incentive to commit to the SLAM ALPHAS association, which supports the people of FLINTA in the slam scene.
Where other comedians write elaborate, embellished stories, Lisa Christ gets to the point: Men have too much power, too much privilege and they don’t think enough about it. This is definitely not a good cabaret, which is quickly evident from the ugly embarrassment of the men in the audience.