Reena Krishnaraja Her Matura thesis turned the Ausserrhoden native into a comedian
At 19, Reena Krishnaraja won the SRF Best Talent Comedy Award. In the TV program "On the Rocks", she tells us how she came to stand-up comedy after graduating from high school - and how lonely life as a comedian can be.
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- Reena Krishnaraja won the SRF Best Talent Comedy Award 2022 and is currently on her first solo tour.
- In the talk show "On the Rocks", the 21-year-old from Ausserrhoden explains why her poor math grades led her to stand-up comedy.
- And she reveals why her father first took a picture of her and comedian Charles Nguela after she won the SRF Best Talent Comedy Award 2022.
"After I won, I got a lot of attention," says comedian Reena Krishnaraja in the show "On the Rocks".
At the age of 19, the Ausserrhoden native won the SRF Best Talent Comedy Award 2022. Immediately after her win, her father approached comedian Charles Nguela for a photo.
Puzzled, she asked her father why he didn't want to take a picture with her first. He replied: "After all, he won two stones."
Asked by "On the Rocks" presenter Frank Richter about her acceptance speech, Krishnaraja said with a laugh: "I wish I had prepared myself better."
Krishnaraja started her career with her A-level thesis
She came to stand-up comedy by chance: Krishnaraja wanted to make up for her poor school performance in mathematics with a special A-level thesis.
For this thesis, she interviewed various Swiss comedians. Because she was not familiar with this scene, she entered "stand-up comedian Switzerland" into Google and wrote to and interviewed the first five names.
Fabio Landert, for example, told her that it was often lonely as a comedian. At first she couldn't understand this, as he performs in front of an audience at his shows. Especially before and after the show, you can feel lonely, and she now understands that.
In the lecture hall during the day, on stage in the evening
Often the adrenaline is gone too quickly after a performance: "Sometimes you fall into a bit of a hole," says Reena Krishnaraja.
She then wonders whether it was really funny or whether people laughed out of pity.
Krishnaraja now studies social sciences in Bern during the day - and in the evenings she performs on stages all over German-speaking Switzerland.
