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| Admission: Free admission |
| Suitable for: 14 years and older |
| Which languages: German |
| Venue: Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| Group size: 25 persons |
| Part of: #Logoskop |
| Belongs to: After Nature |
Once a month, poetry and science come together at the Humboldt Lab. In the Logoskop‘s eightteenth edition, the renowned spoken-word poets Kaleb Erdmann and Aron Boks 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
Kaleb Erdmann was born in Witten an der Ruhr in 1991 and grew up in Bayreuth, Erfurt and especially Munich.
Today he is a freelance author, playwright and poetry slammer. Since 2006 he has been on spoken word stages throughout the German-speaking world. He attended the Literary Writing course at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig, was nominated for the Retzhofer Drama Prize in 2020 and was a finalist in the open mike competition for young literature in 2021.
Since 2020 he has been an author for various television and entertainment formats, such as the satirical show Topnews (RTL), the satirical format Clinch – with Jean-Philippe Kindler (WDR), Till Reiner’s Happy Hour (3Sat), One Mic Stand (AmazonVideo), Tick Tack (kids channel) and many more.
He has published numerous short texts, e.g. in the Herz & Rasen collection of texts edited by Saša Stanišić for the German Football Museum in Dortmund, in the literary journal Akzente from the Hanser publishing house, and in various spoken-word anthologies. His debut novel will be published by Ullstein-Verlag in spring 2024.
Aron Boks was born in Wernigerode in 1997 and lives as an author, slam poet and moderator in Berlin, Neukölln.
Together with Jonathan Schmitz he forms the spoken word band »Das Zappelnde Tanzorchester«.
In 2019 he received the Klopstock Promotional Prize for New Literature. Since 2021 he has been writing primarily for the taz and the FUTURZWEI column »Voice of my generation«.
In the spring of 2023, Aron Boks published his book “Nackt in die DDR” with literary approaches to his great-granduncle Willi Sitte.