Bernard Hoffmeister

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Bernard Hoffmeister (* 1989 in Leipzig ) is a German slam poet , author and presenter.

biography

Hoffmeister studied philosophy, arts and media at the University of Hildesheim from 2008 to 2011 with a bachelor's degree . He achieved his master's degree in media culture analysis at the University of Düsseldorf in 2015 . He has been participating in poetry slams throughout Germany since 2011 , and in 2012 he took part in the Lower Saxony-Bremen state slam championships in Osnabrück . He was a poet in the North Rhine-Westphalian counterpart, the NRW Slam , in 2012, 2014 and 2015. In the meantime, he moderates and organizes his own (literary) events in the Düsseldorf area, such as the Pitcher Poetry Slam or the Best Of Slam . He also gives workshops on creative writing. In 2013 his text "Unruhestift" was presented on the Podcastpoesie portal . In 2015 he moderated Poetry.Slam.Europa in the NRW Forum . Hoffmeister is one of the organizers of the German-speaking Slam Championships 2017 in Hanover . Together with Johannes Floehr , he organized the North Rhine-Westphalian U20 championships in the Poetry Slam in Krefeld in May 2018. Another joint project is called " Unnecessary Slam Knowledge ", in which the two collect facts and curiosities from the poetry slam scene. Some of Hoffmeister's research on this was published in 2017 in " Poetry Slam - das Handbuch " ( Lektora- Verlag).

Since the fourth issue (2012) he has been the editor of the Düsseldorf literary magazine S / ash, which appears once a year and each issue has a special topic. Texts by Sebastian 23 , Fabian Navarro , Jason Bartsch , Laurin Buser , Tobias Kunze , Patrick Salmen and Wolf Hogekamp have been published there.

Hoffmeister is also the author of quiz questions for TV quiz shows like asked - hunted , who wants to be a millionaire? and five against Jauch . In the Pitcher pub in Düsseldorf , he and his brother Tobias Hoffmeister, who also writes TV quiz questions, organized the pub quiz " Who will be the old master? "

Hoffmeister has lived and worked in Düsseldorf since 2011 .

Publications (selection)

  • LIFE / VALUE S / ASH # 3 . S / ASH eV, 2012.
  • WORLD / END S / ASH # 4 . S / ASH eV, 2013.
  • Bernard Hoffmeister: Troublemaker . Podcast Poetry, 2013.
  • David Kreitz (Ed.): Scribere: What does writing mean? Optimus Mostafa Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-86376-057-1 .
  • FALL / FLIGHT S / ASH # 5 . S / ASH eV, 2014.
  • NIGHT / ACTIVE S / ASH # 6 . S / ASH eV, 2016.
  • Karsten Strack (Ed.): Poetry Slam - the manual . Lektora-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95461-094-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: 1000 visitors to poetry in the Hanover State Opera - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. Retrieved on March 28, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ Hanna Styre: Frechener Poetry Slam: Mixture of nonsense and profundity . In: Kölnische Rundschau . January 19, 2014 ( rundschau-online.de [accessed on March 28, 2017]).
  3. ^ Badische Zeitung: Theater: Prejudices are a joke - badische-zeitung.de . June 6, 2016 ( badische-zeitung.de [accessed on March 28, 2017]).
  4. ↑ Oliver Tripp: "BergReim - Auf ein Wort": Poetry slamers battle over love, neo-Nazis and chocolate . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger . September 20, 2015 ( ksta.de [accessed on March 28, 2017]).
  5. ↑ Beate Gostincar-Walther: Garath: Competition of word acrobats. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Best of Poetry Slam :: Düsseldorf :: Tuesday, March 7th. :: coolibri. Retrieved on March 28, 2017 (German).
  7. ↑ Nantje Wilke: Grevenbroich: In the cult of young poets are trained. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Bernard Hoffmeister - Troublemaker |. Retrieved March 28, 2017 (American English).
  9. ↑ Regina Goldlücke: Dusseldorf: Poetry battles in the spirit of Europe. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  10. ^ Team / Slam 2017. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
  11. ^ Marie Massin: Slammer on the hunt for the title . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . May 28, 2018 ( wz.de [accessed June 17, 2018]).
  12. ^ Semiha Ünlü: Friedrichstadt: Rock pub organizes quiz evening with TV authors. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmeister, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German slam poet, author and presenter
DATE OF BIRTH 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig