Petra Kindler is a spoken word artist, a comedian, a literary translator, playwright, and freelance creative director. She’s a German who has been living in Ireland for over thirty years and she specialises in pointing out the ridiculous in everyday life.

Petra tells Orla how she went from being a high-level creative director at German advertising agencies to the pretty unique position of being a German-Irish comedian (among her many other activities). She also speaks about how she deals with the cliché of Germans being humourless!

We get a glimpse into Petra’s family background, which takes in some of the major political and historic events in twentieth-century Europe. She tells us how she made it through school as a creative person with her sense of humour and self-worth intact. Fascinatingly, she reveals how some of her most recent work has enabled her to connect with young artists in Ghana and bring their work to European stages.

Learn more about Petra through this comedy profile website.