#Logoskop sixteen
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| Admission: free admission |
| Tickets available from mid-April |
| Suitable for: 14 years and older |
| Which languages: German |
| Venue: Humboldt Lab, 1st floor |
| Group size: max. 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 sixteenth edition, the renowned spoken-word poets Josefine Berkholz and Frank Klötgen 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
Josefine Berkholz was born in Durham, North Carolina in 1994 and writes poetry, performance, essay and theatre texts. Studied at the German Literature Institute Leipzig from 2013-2017 and in Philosophy and Social Sciences at Humboldt University Berlin since 2018. Since 2010 part of the German-speaking poetry slam and spoken word scene, performances for the Goethe Institute, ZDF Kultur, MDR and Arte, among others.
Josefine Berkholz also teaches writing workshops (e.g. for the BpB, Deutschlandfunk, Lyrix e.V.) and often cooperates with artists from other disciplines. In the meantime, she has produced a poetry film with filmmaker Brenda Lien, a play with the Armstrong Collective and a staged reading in a factory in Volgograd with Lena Vöcklinghaus and Tilman Severin. Publications in magazines and anthologies.
Frank Klötgen was born in Essen in 1968 and now lives in Munich as an author, stage poet and cabaret artist. He has been active for over 35 years as a slam poet and net literate, is a member of several reading stages and has won prizes at numerous poetry slams, including the ARTE-Webslam, the Polit-Slam of the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the German Boxing Slam Championships 2011 and the Kurzfilmslam Oberhausen 2011. With the team “Agrar Berlin” he was runner-up at the German-language slam championships in 2005.
He has published columns in various magazines, numerous articles in anthologies and journals, and nine books to date. His latest book, Lebhaft im Abgang. Tödliches & Tröstliches in 200 Gedichten (Deadly & Comforting in 200 Poems) was published in 2021. Since 2020 Frank Klötgen has also been playing in the ensemble of the Munich Lach- & Schießgesellschaft.