"Slam What!?..." EM Edition
The language of the pitch - the European Football Championship poetry slam
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 shout - you know it from the stadium, from television, from the radio receivers...
In May, we're making things dance and doing it differently: the linguistic images have to shred, the verses have to fly.The verbal images have to shred, the verses 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 in the run-up to the European Football Championship to all host cities.host cities. 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 are organizing the event series across 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 in the end.
