Lisa Eckhart (born 6 September 1992) is an Austrian poetry slammer and cabaret artist.

Life

Born in Leoben, Styria Lisa Eckhart grew up near Leoben with her grandparents. After graduating from the HIB Liebenau in

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in 2009, she studied German and Slavic Studies in Vienna and at the Paris Sorbonne. After a one-year stay in London, she moved to Berlin.''diepresse.com: „Frauen werden zur Innenschau erzogen“''
18 April 2016, retrieved 23 August 2016. She completed her master studies at the Free University of Berlin. The first master's thesis on femininity and National Socialism based on

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's diaries was rejected, and her second master's thesis dealt with the figure of the devil in German literature. After graduating, she completed over twenty unsuccessful auditions at drama schools, often reciting Mephistopheles, and finally discovered poetry slam. In October 2015, she won the Austrian Poetry Slam Championships as the second woman.''Elisabeth Gürtler, Marc Pircher, Wolfgang Pennwieser und Lisa Eckhart zu Gast in „Stöckl.“''
OTS-message 1 June 2016, retrieved 23 August 2016. At the German Poetry Slam Championship 2015 in Augsburg competed with the later winner Jan Philipp Zymny. In November 2015, she staged her cabaret solo debut at the Vienna Theater am Alsergrund. In 2015, she was one of five finalists on the Golden Miniature Nail. For her solo program, she was awarded the prize of the Austrian Cabaret Award. In 2016 she was in Vereinsheim Schwabing in Bayerischer Rundfunk and as part of the advice team of ''What's new?'' as well as at STÖCKL. on ORF in 2017, she was a guest at ''Pufpaff's happy hour'', at noon from 18 by

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, on WDR in '' Mitternachtsspitzen'' and presented by

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and on ORF hosted by

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show ''Prater Stars''. On 10 January 2018, Lisa Eckhart started her second solo program with ''The Benefits of Vice'' (premiere in the

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). She calls herself "an angry, screaming Austrian rejected by art schools and loved by Germans who will never learn" and likes to wear eccentric outfits.

Awards

* 2015: Austrian Cabaret Award - Award for ''As if you had better things to do'' * 2017: Berliner Bär (B.Z. Culture Prize) - Poetry Slam Prize * 2017: Pantheon Prize - Jury Prize Early Rage & Corrupt * 2017: German Cabaret Prize - Sponsorship Award * 2018: Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis - Prize of the City of Mainz''orf.at: Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis: Vitasek und Eckhart geehrt''
8 November 2017, retrieved 8 November 2017.

References

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