Felix Fally crowns a cabaret in 2025 in Graz!

Felix Fally crowns a cabaret in 2025 in Graz!

Kleinkunstbühne Hin & Wider, Graz, Österreich - The Graz cabaret competition 2025, which took place from April 9th ​​to 13th, ended with the victory of Felix Faly, who won the coveted Graz cabaret. The 32-year-old cabaret artist from Vienna impressed the jury with his figure Peter Ostermann and is now part of an illustrious list of award winners like Mike Supancic, Michael Mittermeier and Paul Pizzera. According to krone.at the jury falys language witz, observation and its enormous potential.

Fally, who started presenting his works in the form of short videos on social media around a year ago, appears with different roles and draws his inspiration from the observation of people. The cabaret artist plans to develop a full -length program to further deepen its art.

voices of the audience

The "Styrian crown" audience bird went to Sebastian Humi, who deals with his identity as an Arab, Catholic and gay comedian. Humi, who tells of his mother from Baghdad and incorporates the humorous relationship with her in his stand-up programs, received the audience award with an absolute majority. He also organizes open-Mic evenings in Vienna and events with his "comedy collective" all over Austria.

Currently Humi is working on his first appearance entitled "The torn child". His commitment to the art scene is shown in the events that he regularly organizes to promote new talents and to strengthen the exchange among comedians.

A look at the competition

The 39th Graz cabaret competition attracted a variety of artists from the areas of cabaret, stand-up comedy, songwriter, pantomime and scenic readings with a total of 18 starting places. The preliminary rounds between April 9 and 11 led to an exciting final on April 12, 2025, followed by a show run on the last day of the competition, where there was no longer any competitive characteristics, but the finalists were still able to demonstrate their skills. This was organized in the renowned theater café of the cabaret.

The jurors who were different members in the preliminary rounds and in the final decided over the award winners and showed how important it is to promote the variety of genres and performances. Prize winners of the competition not only receive the prize money of 1,000 euros for the cabaret, but also commitment to their evening -filling programs, which gives artists additional visibility.

The cabaret and cabaret area has a long tradition and is historically regarded as an estimated medium for art and culture. In the history of the cabaret, talented artists such as Aristide Bruant and Yvette Guilbert paved the way to ensure that the art form became a magnet for intellectuals and aristocrats, such as the Research on the cabaret shows. This tradition of social critical and humorous processing of social topics is still alive today.