Die Sprache des Rasens: - Der Poetry Slam zur Fußball-EM!

In the organizer's words:

Every child who has ever been to a stadium knows that the spoken word and soccer are closely interwoven. The ball has to go into the corner, the
marble into the net, the leather into the box, all the self-proclaimed tactics experts on the sidelines have to put their mustard on the stadium sausage
and someone always has to make a fuss - you know it from the stadium, from television, from the radio... In May, we're making things dance and doing it differently: the linguistic images have to shred, the verses have to fly, because there are punchlines on the ears!

With verbal exaggerations, shouted interjections and whispered standard situations, "Die Sprache des Rasens" brings an absolute highlight to all host cities in the run-up to the European Football Championship. Six top-class slam poets will compete for victory in a literary stage competition - in a poetry slam for the European Football Championship!

"It's not about goals, it's about words! It's not about the sausage, it's about the poetry!" say Christine Brinkmann, Yannick Steinkellner
and Nils Straatmann, who organize the event series throughout Germany.

The performers bring their own written thoughts to the poetry slam, covering many kilometers of travel. The poems, stories and football pitch anecdotes make for an exciting and varied exchange of blows.
As is usual at a poetry slam, the audience alone decides who wins with the volume of their applause. Only in
three knockout duels on the subject of soccer, which will take over the whole of Europe in the spring, then in the furious final of the best three, where everything is at stake.

The language of the pitch - the poetry slam for the European Football Championship!

DIE SPRACHE DES RASENS " Football and Culture Foundation - Euro 2024 (fussball-und-kultur2024.eu)