Whether as “Mama Bavaria” or “Frau Lallinger” – the cabaret artist Luise Kinseher likes to slip into different roles. She has now been honored for this versatility and her sense of humor.
The Munich cabaret artist Luise Kinseher relies on “news detox” at times, meaning she doesn’t follow the news. Her work also benefits from this, she told the German Press Agency. “It’s interesting to listen to the silence where topics emerge that are just as relevant to cabaret, without having to invoke the end of the world again.”
Luise Kinseher received the German Cabaret Prize yesterday in the Tafelhalle in Nuremberg. The Nuremberg Burgtheater has been awarding this since 1991. Kinseher was awarded the main prize worth 6,000 euros – for her many faces and stage personalities, as the reasoning states. “Discovering the funny moment in all events of life and drawing courage from it is what characterizes her sense of humor.” The program prize worth 4,000 euros went to the cabaret artist Philipp Scharrenberg, and the special prize worth 2,000 euros went to the cabaret artist Eva Eiselt.
Kinseher is known, for example, for her role as “Mama Bavaria”, who investigates politics, or as the kiosk owner “Frau Lallinger”, who philosophises about all sorts of topics in life. She has been performing on German-speaking cabaret stages since 1998 and has already received many awards. But she is happy every time, she said. “I think it’s wonderful to receive prizes: on the one hand they are confirmation, but on the other hand they also give you a new kick to keep going and not rest in your comfort zone.”
The discussion about gender language is also brought up again and again in cabaret, but for Kinseher this is not an issue. “In twenty years at the latest, the heated debate about correct language will be forgotten,” she said. “I would then like to live in an open society in which all people are treated with respect, minorities are of course included and women really have absolute equality.”
Source: Stern
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