Sonja Pikart — Strong

There are so many peaks in this country — and we're not just talking about mountains: The highest swing in Europe, the largest walk-in wine bottle in Saarland, the longest summer toboggan run on this side of the Rhine. Superlatives everywhere you look — and they all want to be climbed, tackled, conquered. In a world that divides everything and everyone into winners and losers, every small town must have the biggest something and everyone must surpass themselves. But if strength is only an end in itself, isn't every summit a low point at the same time?

While high performers break records in the gym, Sonja Pikart discovers the poetry of weakness. While “strong” men absorb the planet in their thirst for power, she finds romance in friendships. But then she slips into an existential crisis of meaning at the highest point of a pull-up, of all places. And when you scream at her at the weakest moment of her life, “You are so strong! “, Sonja makes an action figure of herself and realizes: Now is the time to feel immortal!

Welcome to a program about heroines and heroes — and those who never were...

The list of awards awarded to cabaret artist Sonja Pikart, who comes from Aachen and lives in Vienna, is long: There is, for example, the Salzburg Bull 2026, the most important international radio cabaret prize and something like the “cabaret Oscar” in German-speaking countries. Then there is the Passau Executioner's Axe Audience Award. Or the first prize in the renowned Swiss cabaret competition “The Coronation”. And of course the Austrian Cabaret Prize, the most important award in the Alpine Republic. The press calls Sonja, who can also be seen again and again on ARD, “one of the most exciting newcomers to cabaret in the country,” her programs “Cabaret of the Top League.” Just superlatives...