Stermann’s daughter is getting married and the comedian throws her a party. But something is wrong and the exuberant celebration turns into a reckoning with the father qualities of the TV star. A hot piano and a creepy babysitter, a Hallelujah and the truth about the good ORF man from Sezuan. Dirk Stermann’s first solo program is as pleasurable as it is abysmal, and in the end he dances all alone.

ZUSAMMENBRAUT – the first cabaret solo by Dirk Stermann – will premiere at Vienna’s Rabenhoftheater on October 12, 2022!

Dirk Stermann, born in Duisburg in 1965, has lived in Vienna since 1987. He is one of Austria’s most popular cabaret artists and television presenters, and is also widely known in Germany through television and radio shows, as well as movies and stage programs with Christoph Grissemann as the duo “Stermann & Grissemann”. Since May 2007, he has been co-hosting the weekly late-night show “Willkommen Österreich”. With his novels “Six Austrians in the top five” (2010), “Stoß im Himmel” (2013), “Der Junge bekommt das Gute zuletzt” (2016) and “Der Hammer” (2019), Dirk Stermann successfully lined up among German-language fiction author:in.In 2016, “Die Welt” judged: “A funny German media star who should be taken very seriously as an Austrian novelist.” His new novel “Maksym” will be published in 2022.