Christian Ritter (Author)

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Christian Ritter (* 1983 in Bad Mergentheim ) is a German slam poet as well as the organizer and moderator of poetry slam events. He currently lives in Berlin .

Life

Christian Ritter grew up in Lauda-Königshofen in the Taubertal. From 2005 to 2010 he studied German , journalism and European ethnology at the Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg . In 2016 he moved his main residence to Berlin.

Ritter has been the organizer and moderator of the Poetry Slam in Würzburg since 2005, and since 2010 also the organizer and moderator of the Poetry Slam in Bamberg. Together with Clara Nielsen and Max Kennel, he was part of the regular cast of the reading stage Bube Dame Ritter (2010-2013). Ritter is now a member of the Berlin Reading Stage Central Committee Deluxe . He also appears regularly on other reading stages, on poetry slams, comedy stages, in mixed shows and with solo performances.

From 2005 to 2014, Ritter took part in every German-language poetry slam championship . At the German-language poetry slam championships in 2009, he took second place. In 2018 he and Paul Bokowski won the erotic slam as part of the supporting program of the championships in Zurich.

Christian Ritter published several volumes of short stories and novels. His first novel, "Dichter Schlachten" (2012) takes place in the German-speaking slam scene, in which an undercover commissioner tries to uncover a series of murders on jury members. In the second novel, "The gentle kidnapping of the Potsdamer Strumpfträgers" (2013), the path of a failed Wer wird Millionär candidate is traced who, out of desperation, forges the plan to kidnap Günther Jauch in order to get the million he is aiming for. All of Ritter's works can be assigned to the genre of satire .

Awards

  • 2007 winner of the Frankenslam in Nuremberg
  • 2007 Golden Zipfel Cabaret Prize
  • 2008 Artist of the Year of the Nuremberg Sophist Group
  • 2009 Vice-Champion at the NRW Slam
  • 2010 Bavarian champion at the first Bavarian slam in Regensburg
  • 2011 winner of the Frankenslam in Fürth

Publications

  • 2006 Next up - Gutentaggeschichten , Peter Hellmund Verlag, Würzburg ISBN 978-3-939103-01-1
  • 2007 Semi-new , short stories, Peter Hellmund Verlag, Würzburg ISBN 978-3-939103-10-3
  • 2009 The novel , in the anthology Signal strength: excellent. Stellwerck Reading Book 1 , Stellwerck Verlag, Würzburg ISBN 978-3-941949-00-3
  • 2011 Modern couples share women's work , short stories, Lektora Verlag, Paderborn ISBN 978-3-938470-61-9
  • 2012 Slaughter poets , novel, Invisible Verlag, Diedorf ISBN 978-3-942920-07-0
  • 2013 Sexual intercourse: An introduction , short stories, Invisible Verlag, Diedorf ISBN 3-942920-21-2
  • 2013 headphones out, that's relevant for the exam , audio book, Insichtbar Verlag, Diedorf
  • 2013 The gentle kidnapping of the Potsdam stocking wearer , Roman, Heyne Verlag, Munich ISBN 978-3453410633
  • 2014 Brummen , Minibuch, Insichtbar Verlag, Diedorf ISBN 978-3-942920-40-7
  • 2014 The gentle kidnapping of the Potsdam stocking wearer , audio book, Schall & Wahn
  • 2015 Strange Dialogues , Invisible Publishing House, Diedorf ISBN 978-3-95791-029-5
  • 2017 The correct arrangement of animals in the zoo , Insichtbar Verlag, Diedorf, ISBN 978-3957910677
  • 2019 Birgit and Berlin , Insichtbar Verlag, Dietdorf, 2019, ISBN 978-3957910974

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christian Ritter: Poetry Slam Würzburg. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Jack Dame Ritter. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .
  3. ^ Central Committee Deluxe. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .
  4. ^ Christian Ritter: Appearances. Retrieved May 17, 2016 .
  5. ↑ Chris Rupp: SOPHIST proudly presents ... the artist of the year. SOPHIST Blog, April 18, 2008, accessed May 17, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Susanne Wiedamann: When language mutates to the top. Mittelbayerische, May 16, 2010, accessed on May 17, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Knight, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poetry slammer, moderator and organizer
DATE OF BIRTH 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Mergentheim