poetry trifft Poesie: Der Slammer und Kabarettist Frank Klötgen und die Künstlerin Petra Christine Schiefer zu Gast bei Michael Domas

In the organizer's words:

It is long past time for slam poetry and poetry, written and spoken word, to meet. Michael Domas ("Herzmarinade", "anhaltender ritus") responds to Frank's texts with classic, modern and his own poems and texts.

Frank Klötgen was born in Essen in 1968 and lives as a slam poet and netliterate in Munich. Since drumming on tin cans at the age of 14, he has constantly reinvented himself. Now the Münchner Lach- und Schießgesellschaft is most important to him. What drives him? "Anger is a great source of creativity."

He is the author of over 3,000 poems and song lyrics and has published eight books and twelve albums with his band Marilyn's Army. He has received the ZEIT Literature Prize, won the ARTE Webslam, the Süddeutsche Zeitung's Polit-Slam and was a scholarship holder of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Innsbruck and the Hamburg Cultural Foundation. He has appeared on slam stages in almost 2,500 performances in 28 countries from Borneo to Cuba.

His texts often have a classical form, are playful, contain old vocabulary as well as new word creations, are ballad-like or even sonnets. Cross-over, he says, and cites masters such as Goethe and Schiller as role models.

Petra Christine Schiefer (TEXTS - THEATER - PICTURES): "I write, play, read aloud, recite, paint. And in this way I bring inner events, inner movement to the outside world in various ways. Always in search of the FLOW, the experience in the moment. Less with an eye on the possible outcome. But in the best case, the waves sent out reach those who hear and see."