The cabaret artist Sissi Perlinger on awards, time off, the focus of her life and her farewell to German stages.
Interviewed by
Oliver Hochkeppel
At the end of the 1980s, after years of training in Paris, New York and Vienna, Sissi Perlinger, who grew up in Munich, set out to stir up good German entertainment. As a singing, dancing, music-making bird of paradise in daring costumes and with equally daring themes (sexuality, for example), she played herself to the top. Was voted “Munich’s most popular stage personality”, won the German cabaret prize, even the Adolf Grimme Prize for the TV roles that soon followed, got title stories and his own TV shows. It became so much that she was stopped by a burnout with tinnitus and the end of the relationship. But Perlinger came back, with books and solo programs in which she used her experiences in a humorous way. She recently announced that she was ending her German stage career; with her program “What it’s really about” she is on a farewell tour, in Munich she will be on November 28th in the Prince Regent Theater to be seen for the last time. It so happened that she received the honorary award of the Bavarian Cabaret Prize this Monday in the Lustspielhaus. The whole evening will be broadcast on BR television on Thursday, October 27 at 9 p.m. time for a talk.