If science is queen in the Humboldt Lab, then the #Logoscope is her court jester. Every month since 2021, artistic freedom has taken to the exhibition space at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin to use literature to shake up the view of science. Equipped with a microphone and amplification system, two slam poets wander through the exhibition and recite texts.
This time they will be joined by slam poets Lucia Lucia and Arne Rautenberg. Together they will comment on the exhibition "On Water" with live texts. Visitors are invited to accompany them on their eloquent tour.
Curated by Bas Böttcher
Lucia Lucia attracted a great deal of attention in November 2017 with her performance "Mathilda". The recording from the final of the German-language poetry slam championships went viral with over four million views and generated a strong media response nationwide. Since then, the Hamburg city champion has been performing on stages throughout Germany and Switzerland and is working on her first solo tour - with a clear focus on writing and performing.
She has been part of the poetry slam scene since 2015. Her appearances have taken her to the Dockville Festival, the Deichbrand Festival, Schauspiel Leipzig, the Hanover State Opera and the Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, among others. In 2017, she reached the final of the German-language championships; the final text "Mathilda", recorded by NDR, was clicked millions of times. She regularly performs her solo show "Oh, aber ja" at Nachtspeicher Hamburg. In 2019, her poetry collection "Texte, die auf Liebe enden" was published by S. Fischer Verlag. She is also a co-founder and permanent member of the Berlin reading stage Neuköllner Brett, together with Aron Boks, Wolf Hogekamp and Jacinta Nandi.
Arne Rautenberg, born in Kiel in 1967, has lived there since 2000 as a freelance writer and visual artist. He studied art history, modern German literature and ethnology at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel.
His main focus is poetry. His poems have appeared in his own volumes, in renowned anthologies such as Reclam's Book of German Poems, Der ewige Brunnen and the Jahrbuch der Lyrik, as well as in newspapers and magazines such as FAZ, DIE ZEIT and Akzente. Many of his texts are also included in school textbooks.
In 2016, he received the Josef Guggenmos Prize for Children's Poetry, in 2017 he was admitted to the German Academy for Language and Poetry, and in 2018 to the German Academy for Children's and Youth Literature. This was followed by the Culture Prize of the City of Kiel in 2020 and the Rome Prize of the German Academy of Rome Villa Massimo in 2022. In addition to his literary work, he creates collages, visual poetry and writing installations that have been exhibited internationally. Teaching positions have taken him to Kiel, Constance, Hildesheim and Leipzig, among other places; from 2006 to 2020 he was a lecturer at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel.
- free of charge
- Book your ticket in advance online or at the box office in the foyer.
- Once a month on Wednesdays 18-19:30
- Duration: 90 min
- From 14 years
- German
- Humboldt Laboratory, 1st floor
- 25 people
- Part of: #Logoscope
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