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Stefanie Sourial

© Michael Seirer

News

# Stefanie Sourial receives the 2026 Outstanding Artist Award

28.9.2026

We would like to offer our warmest congratulations to Stefanie Sourial on winning the 2026 Outstanding Artist Award in the category Performing Arts! With this award, the Federal Ministry for Housing, Art, Culture, Media and Sport recognises her long-standing artistic practice spanning theatre, performance, cabaret and music, as well as her socially and politically engaged work. Stefanie Sourial has had close ties with brut for many years and was most recently seen at brut in January 2026 with *FLASHMOB*. Congratulations from the bottom of our hearts!

## Artists

### [Stefanie Sourial](https://brut-wien.at/en/artists/stefanie-sourial)

Stefanie Sourial realises their own pieces and stand-up shows, including *PHARAO IN DRAG* (2025), *NEW ENDINGS* (2023), *CITY OF DIASPORA* (2021), the *COLONIAL COCKTAIL* trilogy (2019–2020), *FREAK – wo endet der Traum und wo beginnt das Trauma* (2014–2015) and *Difficulties You Might Get Being An Artist In Austria* (2011). Since 2017, Stefanie Sourial has been part of the PCCC\* – Politically Correct Comedy Club. From 2009 to 2015, they were in Katrina Daschner’s *CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL*. Since 2009, they have worked and performed with Vienna-based artists such as Malarina, Denice Bourbon, Katrina Daschner, Gin Müller, Veza Fernández, Nina Kusturica, Katharina Mückstein and Kurt Palm. In 2007, they graduated from the International School for Theatre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. Since 2016, they have taught performance art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Stefanie Sourial’s performances, which are anti-racist, queer and socio-critical, combine two types of narration: the historical and the personal – always with a focus on the political. www.stefaniesourial.com

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