The poetry slam at the Metropolis cinema in Bochum is going into the next round - and to mark the turn of the year, this time it's all new! With stories about changes of direction, big plans and "this is going to be my year!" And possibly also about grandiose failures, admitting that good intentions are not so easy to keep - and then getting up again and somehow carrying on anyway. It's going to be wild and good - with high-flying emotions, deep moments and certainly some hearty, liberating laughs. The show starts on November 28, 2025 at 7.30 pm.

So that you can rely on a varied and all-round successful slam show, we have invited four selected artists from the Ruhr area and the wider region to compete against each other with their texts in a double preliminary round under the moderation of Essen poetry slammer Marius Hanke alias Zwergriese . As is usual in a poetry slam, you will of course have a say in which two of them are allowed to perform a third time in the final round. You therefore have a direct influence on who will perform a third text - and therefore generally on how the evening develops.