Julia Steiner | Guilty

In her second solo show, Julia Steiner recounts the life of a young woman who has learnt to look for the fault within herself first. Amidst self-checkout theft, parking fines, guilty pleasures and personal missteps, the search for the culprit turns into a journey towards a much bigger question: how much responsibility do we actually bear for our own lives, and how much blame do we take on that perhaps doesn’t even belong to us?

With self-deprecating humour, unflinching honesty and unwavering charm, she not only subjects herself to cross-examination but also examines the human urge to find someone to blame for every problem, whilst at the same time facing the only authority empowered to judge whether she is guilty or not: the audience. An evening for anyone who has ever done something wrong. In other words, for everyone.

Julia Steiner is 26 years old and made her debut in May 2022 at a poetry slam. Shortly afterwards, the Lucerne native became a finalist in the German-speaking Poetry Slam Championships at the Burgtheater in Vienna and won the title of ‘Zurich Poetry Slam Champion 2023’. In the same year, she won the Olten Cabaret Casting with her first full-length solo programme, *Why You Might Still Be Alive Tomorrow*, and has been touring throughout Switzerland with it ever since. She has also since won the Swiss Comedy Award in the SRF3 Best Talent Comedy category. Julia Steiner is a multi-talented performer who hosts, writes, acts and, with her self-deprecating, quick-witted and charming manner, makes every audience laugh.