The jury for the German Cabaret Award 2023 puts it in a nutshell: "The jury thus honors an artist who, as a classic storyteller in a very modern guise, has managed to almost create a niche of his own genre. Nikita Miller's stories are not just packaging for funny punchlines or deeper messages. His focus is on the story itself, which escalates everyday situations, experiences from his own youth and ironically broken clichés of his Kazakh-Russian origins with almost cinematic dramaturgy. His situation comedy, surprising references and bizarre climaxes - spiced up with plenty of street credibility - take the audience on a narrative journey that nobody wants to end prematurely."
His journey began after his first degree in computer science. "I don't enjoy it, I can't do it anyway," he said and set out to become a man. Or rather: on the path to finding his destiny. He took detours, got a taste of the everyday work of a removal man, doorman and conveyor belt worker, achieved success as a martial artist, sold jewelry from the trunk of a car and completed a second degree in philosophy and rhetoric.
"In 2022, I laughed three times. One of which was about Nikita Miller. I'm afraid this man is indeed funny. Nikita says what Kazakh is. And much more. In German. And funny. No! Very funny." Olaf Schubert
There are comedians who you realize you've missed the moment you meet them. Nikita Miller is one of them. And he has hit the road. And when someone like that sets off, he arrives! Wherever that may be.
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