Nikita Miller | KulturImZelt Braunschweig

In the organizer's words:

Festival KulturImZelt 2025

📍 Bürgerpark, Braunschweig

🗓 August 21 - September 21, 2025

- More than 50 shows from the fields of live concerts, readings, cabaret & comedy. -

Including:

Nikita Miller, born in Kazakhstan, grew up in Stuttgart and describes himself as a comedic storyteller. He is German in a different way, funny in a different way, philosophical and direct.

When he begins to tell his first story on stage with a slight Russian accent, standing more than two meters tall, hair as long as a match head and trained like a Shaolin monk, you are glad when he sits down so that he doesn't cut a path if he falls into the audience.

Now he is coming to the stage with his program "Once Upon a Time in Nowhere":

"In the Soviet Union we were the Germans, in Germany we are the Russians" - these words from his grandmother are etched in Nikita Miller's memory. His grandmother would still swear today that a glass of vodka with pepper can solve any problem - from a cold to an identity crisis. But it's not quite that simple.

When Nikita was expelled from grammar school in the 90s because he was supposedly "too Russian" for Schiller, he had no idea that this very cultural divide would one day become his greatest treasure. Between German sandwiches and Russian pierogi, between the secondary school playground and the stories of his grandmother who was deported to Kazakhstan, he found his very own path.

With the precision of a German master watchmaker and the soul of a Russian poet, Miller takes his audience on a journey through time and cultures. Because in the end, it's like a good borscht - it's the mixture that makes it interesting. And sometimes it takes an identity crisis to find out who you really are.

"I laughed three times in 2020. One of them was about Nikita Miller. I'm afraid this man is actually funny. Nikita says what Kazakh is. And much more. In German. And funny. No! Very funny."

- Olaf Schubert

"Nikita's hair-raising vodka story about Russian-Germans and their German friend, Nikita's alter ego 'Lars', which he performs in Ladenburg in a fast-paced and hilarious manner, is very well received by the audience."

- Mannheimer Morgen