Nikita Miller
- Location:
- Theaterhaus, Siemensstr. 11, 70469 Stuttgart
COMEDY - Nikita Miller
with "A lot of new things in the west"
"It seems to me that the age-old superstition that wealth brings happiness seems to be disappearing." Well, that's what Leo Tolstoy once said, although he died seven years before the start of the Soviet Union. Nikita Miller is certain that if the guy had lived a little longer, he certainly wouldn't have said that.
When Nikita came to Germany from Ukraine with his parents at the age of five, he had to
he realized over the years: A person may be able to leave the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union can never leave a person. No wonder that Nikita's grandfather still doesn't speak a word of German after years of rigorously copying Duden.
Expectations of the West were high, the possibilities seemed endless. But Nikita Miller understood: Sitting between two cultures is terribly exhausting. The family tugs at one side, the new life at the other. So he tinkered diligently in his thought laboratory, mixing something here and there, taking something out and sprinkling a little glitter on top.
He mixed the best of German and Soviet together and learned to combine both cultures with
with all their beauty and diversity, with all their quirks and inconveniences. Because we all have to admit to ourselves: The cultures are not that different. Pelmeni are just small dumplings.