#Logoskop by the river
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| free of charge |
| ticket required |
| Meeting point: large granite bowl in the Lustgarten in front of the Altes Museum. |
| 14 years and older |
| German |
| max. 25 persons |
| Part of: #Logoskop |
The Humboldt Labor remains closed for the time being – but the #Logoskop continues! On the occasion of the new exhibition On Water, which can be seen at the Humboldt Labor from October 10, 2025, we invite you to a special summer edition: The #Logoskop by the river!
Experience a special evening between word art and water views: During a poetic walk along the Spree, two generations of poetry slam will meet. With us: Zarah Weiß – voice of the new slam generation – and Bas Böttcher – co-founder of the German slam scene.
A dialog in verse, a walk with depth – in the heart of Berlin.
Curated by Bas Böttcher
Participants
Zarah Weiß
Zarah Weiß belongs to the new generation of female slam poets and has been performing on stages for spoken literature since 2023. She won the Berlin U20 championships and has been a regular guest on Berlin’s literary stages since she was young. Whether it’s an U20 slam, festival project, opening gala or art exhibition – she reaches an ever-growing audience with her honest and eloquent texts.
Bas Böttcher
Bas Böttcher is one of the co-founders of the German-language spoken word scene. He studied at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and has lived in Berlin since 2000. His texts are considered exemplary for contemporary stage poetry. They appear in school textbooks (Schroedel, Cornelsen, Klett) and important collections of German poetry (Der Neue Conrady, Lyrikstimmen, etc.).
He has also published three volumes of poetry with Voland & Quist, Dies ist kein Konzert, Neonomade and Vorübergehende Schönheit. Bas Böttcher has performed at venues including the Elbphilharmonie concert hall and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris) as well as at book fairs in Beijing, Guadalajara, Moscow, São Paulo and Bangkok.
Bas Böttcher is the inventor and programmer of various media formats for poetry. He developed the electronic hypertext Looppool as a new form of expression on the Internet. He has taught at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, the German Literature Archive in Marbach, the Kulturakademie Baden-Württemberg, the University of the Arts in Berlin and at Goethe Institutes worldwide.