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Bas Böttcher (2006)
Bas Böttcher (left) with Timo Brunke , Nora Gomringer and Dalibor Marković at the Poetry Slam Festival Zurich 2010

Bastian ("Bas") Böttcher (born December 31, 1974 in Bremen ) is a German writer and slam poet .

Life

Bastian Böttcher studied media design at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and moved to Berlin in 2000.

Since the early 1990s , Böttcher has been bringing slam poetry to the stage as a form of rhythmically-physically performed poetry at literary events. Together with DJ Loris Negro he founded the band Zentrifugal in 1991 , which broke up in July 2001.

As a co-founder of the German-speaking poetry slam scene, he won the poetry slam prize of the Berlin Literature Workshop several times in the mid-1990s . He was invited by the Goethe Institute to perform at the German Nuyorican Poetry Festival in New York. This was followed by appearances in the Martin-Gropius-Bau (Berlin), in the Hamburger Schauspielhaus , at the Munich Kammerspiele and in various literary houses from Copenhagen to Vienna.

Böttcher is considered the first German slam poet. In 1997 he won the first German poetry slam championships . With his poetry performances and his digital poetry he has been causing a stir since the nineties. Böttcher's poems can be found in school books and in anthologies of German-language poetry ( Der Neue Conrady , Yearbook of Poetry , Poetry Voices.)

In addition to tours (partly for the Goethe Institute) through Canada, the USA, Great Britain, France, Switzerland, Italy and South America, he programmed and developed lyrical forms of expression for the Internet ( Looppool ).

After records and anthology publications, his first major literary work appeared in September 2004 with the novel Megaherz (Rotbuch Verlag). In the 2006 spring program he published a collection of his stage texts with “This is not a concert”. The following volume of poems "Neonomade" (Voland & Quist, 2009) brings together further stage texts for listening and reading.

Since 2000 Bas Böttcher has been working with the Berlin filmmaker and slam master Wolf Hogekamp on the development and establishment of the poetry clip format. He produced various poetry clips, lectured on the same subject with Herbert Wentscher at the Bauhaus University Weimar , presented his thesis on poetry clips in 2004 and published the DVD Poetry Clips (Vol. 1) in 2005 with Wolf Hogekamp .

Bas Böttcher developed and built the text box for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2006 . The text box is a speaker's booth made of Plexiglas, in which poets appear. The audience can listen to the texts in studio quality through headphones. The text box has since been exhibited at the book fairs in Beijing, Taipei, Abu Dhabi, Guadalajara and Sao Paulo as well as in the Center Pompidou (Paris) and in the New National Gallery (Berlin).

Bas Böttcher has been teaching language and staging at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig since 2012 .

He is a member of the PEN Center Germany .

Text forms, performance and stylistic devices

Bas Böttcher's texts reflect the present with its abysses and abstruse facets. The Neue Zürcher Zeitung writes: “His songs [...] immediately catch your ears because of their gentle playful sovereignty, to which on the one hand the penchant for all-in-one rhymes and on the other hand the description of intimate moments of life contribute. For example the 'summer sun feeling': 'Every year, in June July / huge sums of bumblebees hum around in the air. / I see how they fly over lawns or rush over grass. ' [...] His consumer criticism, juggling with existing brand names and shrewd exposure to various jargons, dispenses with the aggression with which hard rap distinguishes itself. «Google Babylon! Babel times Googylon, / Bubblegum, Goody, Booty, Party on, Babylon! » is the tongue-twisting comment on the confusion of language in the media, to which a sensational press 'with circulation and headline / hook and deadline' works no less than the television and 'Internet' products of the culture industry. ”Belongs to Bas Böttcher and the entire literary poetry slam movement writing and presenting ( performance ) of texts closely together.

Works

Awards

literature

  • Maike Lipczinsky: A look at the everyday, but from a slightly different perspective: a conversation with Bastian Böttcher . In: Andrea Bartl (Ed.) Verbalträume Contributions to contemporary German literature, pp. 285–303 Wißner, Augsburg 2005. 351 pp. ISBN 3-89639-477-0
  • Stefanie Westermayr: Poetry Slam in Germany. Theory and practice of a multimedia art form . Tectum, Marburg 2004. 137 pp. ISBN 3-8288-8764-3
  • Billy Badger: "Good weather for rap poetry: Bastian Böttcher's 'Three Seasons Trilogy'". In: Gert Reifarth (Hrsg.) Das Innste aus Außen: On German-language poetry of the 21st century pp. 231–253 Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2008. 293 pp. ISBN 978-3-8260-3778-8 .

Web links

Commons : Bas Böttcher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b Information from the Literaturhaus in Vienna ( Memento from October 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Chronicle of the Literaturhaus Copenhagen ( Memento from July 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ The unfinished history of the Poetry Slam in facts and figures ( Memento from August 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Bas Böttcher: Literature like a rock concert
  5. ↑ a b c "Bas Böttcher, Pop-Poetry-Pionier", Neue Zürcher Zeitung of December 4, 2009
  6. ↑ a b History of the German-language Poetry Slam Championships ( Memento from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ The poetry slam expedition: Bas Böttcher
  8. ↑ Bas Böttcher ( Memento from October 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on slamthewm.de. Retrieved February 27, 2013
  9. ↑ Looppool - Bas as a web designer on his own behalf
  10. ↑ Materials for the novel "Megaherz": audio samples (MP3), reviews, information ( Memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ a b Poetry Clips (Vol. 1), Lingua Video Medien GmbH (2005)
  12. ↑ Poetry Clip Project at the Bauhaus University Weimar ( Memento from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Degrees from the Bauhaus University Weimar
  14. ↑ Documentation of the Textbox project
  15. ↑ The text box in the Center Pompidou
  16. ^ Bas Böttcher as visiting professor at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig
  17. ↑ Brief information on basboettcher.de. Retrieved February 27, 2013
  18. ↑ Laudation of the Pegasus competition 1998
  19. ↑ Scholarship holders of the Literary Colloquium
  20. ↑ Information about Bas Böttcher at Literaturport
  21. ↑ Martin Zahrer: Bas Böttcher: “I write poems for the stage. I am a speech poet. ” On: goethe.de. Retrieved February 27, 2013
  22. ^ Bremer Netzresidenz for Bas Böttcher
personal data
SURNAME Böttcher, Bas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böttcher, Bastian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer and slam poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Bremen