#Logoskop thirty-three
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| free admission |
| 14 years and older |
| German |
| Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| 25 persons |
| Part of: #Logoskop |
| Belongs to: After Nature |
Once a month, poetry and science come together at the Humboldt Lab. This time, the renowned spoken-word poets Arnold Pretzlaw and Gauner will explore the exhibition ‚After Nature‘ with live performances of their work. Visitors are invited to join them on their tour of eloquence.
Curated by Bas Böttcher
Participants
Arnold Pretzlaw
Arnold Max Paco Pretzlaw is 19 years old and has been performing on German-speaking stages since 2022. In 2024, he became Berlin-Brandenburg U20 Poetry Slam Champion. His interest in language forms and sound patterns led him to the poetry slam: in his poetry, he oscillates between free form and fixed stylistic patterns. His love of rhythms is a common thread running through his young and fresh work. In terms of content, he locates himself between serious farewell and gecko techno (Geckno). So what comes next will lie somewhere on this spectrum.
Gauner
Gauner is a legend of early Berlin rap and hip-hop culture. He has also been successfully performing at poetry slams for a good 21 years. He regularly performs solo or together with other poets from “Spokenword Berlin” at slams across Germany. Together with his slam colleagues Frank Klötgen and Wolf Hogekamp, he formed the Agrar Berlin slam team, which was runner-up in the team competition of the German-language poetry slam championships.
Gauner’s texts are characterised above all by innovative but informal rhymes with often enigmatic double meanings that go far beyond mere wordplay. Sometimes politically sarcastic, sometimes serious and dramatic, sometimes strikingly personal and open. And rarely without humour.