Jason Bartsch
Jason Bartsch (born November 4, 1994 in Solingen ) is a German lyric poet, slam poet , musician and presenter.
Life and artistic creation
Stage literature
In the poetry slam , Bartsch celebrated his first major success with his spoken word texts in 2013, when he reached the final of the first independent German-speaking U20 championships in Kiel. This was followed by numerous victories in regional slams, participation in championships and, after finishing second in the previous year in Mönchengladbach with Sandra Da Vina's victory , in 2015 he won the North Rhine-Westphalian state championships ( NRW Slam ) in Münster . In the following year he was co-host of the state championships in Bochum and moderated the final together with Sebastian 23 in the sold-out Schauspielhaus Bochum .
In 2014 he worked under the direction of Lars Ruppel and Robbie Q. Telfer on behalf of the American Institute in a literary exchange project called "Wort.Word.Lich". Their full-length program took up the German-American relationship. Marco von Damghan and Fatima Moumouni were also involved in the project .
He is a permanent member of the regular slam reading stages " Infinite number of monkeys " (with Theresa Hahl , Sebastian 23 , Jan Philipp Zymny and DJ Jean-Jacques Plastique ) in Bochum and " The Baby is optional " (with Henrike Klehr , Johannes Floehr and Yannick Stone waiter ) in Oberhausen .
In 2017 he goes on tour with his first program called "Merriment as a Right to Leisure Time".
Bartsch now moderates numerous literary events in Hamburg and the Ruhr area.
Printed literature
In 2012 he received the Postpoetry Prize in the Young Poets category , he regularly participates in the Young Authors' Meetings and is a two-time prize winner there (2013 & 2015). In 2015 he was awarded the young talent award of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in the literature category. His prose and poetry have been printed in various anthologies. In 2015 his text "Sentences on Planks" appeared in the Yearbook of Poetry . He is editor of the anthology " Inkfresh 2" ( Lektora-Verlag ), in which contributions by young slam poets are collected.
music
Bartsch was the singer and guitarist of the Dortmund postpunk band Empire Years , founded in 2012 , the other members are Aaron Beer and Adrian Busch. In the year they were founded, the trio released the EP "Cave Man", followed by "Come Alive" in 2014 . In the summer of 2016, Bartsch's first solo CD followed, " You look far too seldom in the eyes and think it's okay like that ".
Others
His poetry clip " Some Problems ", realized together with Patrick Praschma , took part in the 2016 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Münster in the " Best Poetry Film" category . In 2016 he brought his live radio play " Songs for the Dead " to the stage, with Sebastian 23 , Andy Strauss and Jule Weber as speakers. Bartsch is a freelance writer for the music magazine spex .
Awards
- 2012: Postpoetry Prize in the young poet category
- 2013/2015: Winner of the Young Authors' Meeting
- 2013: Finalist of the German-speaking U20 slam championships in Kiel
- 2015: Winner NRW Slam in Münster
- 2015: Young Talent Award NRW in the Literature category
- 2017: Finalist of the German-speaking slam championships in Hanover
Publications (selection)
literature
- Jason Bartsch: Word tremors . Tolphin Books, 2013.
- Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze_sechs - German-language poetry of the present . Verlag Ralf Liebe, 2013, ISBN 978-3-944566-06-1 .
- Axel Kutsch (Ed.): Versnetze_sieben - German-language poetry of the present . 978-3-944566-27-6, 2014.
- Jason Bartsch: thinking outside the box . in the literary machine.
- Jason Bartsch, Nils Fruchtchtenicht (ed.): Ink freshness II . Lektora-Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95461-044-0 .
- Christoph Buchwald, Nora Gomringer (ed.): Yearbook of Poetry 2015 . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2015, ISBN 978-3-421-04612-3 .
- Karsten Strack (Ed.): Poetry Slam - the manual . Lektora-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95461-094-5 .
Music albums
- 2017: 4478 Bochum
- 2020: An idea for all things to fold
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mittelbayerische.de: The cap man from Bochum wins . In: Mittelbayerische Zeitung . ( Mittelbayerische.de [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Natalie Sacharow: Krefeld: The best poets of the slammer year. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
- ↑ our colleague Helmut Jasny: Jason Bartsch juggles the language well . In: Westfälische Nachrichten . ( wn.de [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Dominik Lenze: Henrike Klehr is the new NRW champion in the poetry slam . ( derwesten.de [accessed on March 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Wort.Word.Lich - the meeting of the greatest poetry slam cultures! - HAMBURG CHICAGO NEWS . In: HAMBURG CHICAGO NEWS . September 1, 2015 ( hamburgchicagonews.com [accessed March 22, 2017]).
- ↑ Sarah Dickel: Poetry Slammer gives the anti-star . In: Westdeutsche Zeitung . June 9, 2017 ( wz.de [accessed June 10, 2017]).
- ↑ Award of the sponsorship award of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia | The state portal Wir in NRW. November 16, 2015, accessed March 22, 2017 .
- ^ Empire Years. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
- ↑ You look far too rarely in the eye and think it's okay like that. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
- ↑ Some problems | Some problems . In: ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival 2016 | Movies . ( zebrapoetryfilm.org [accessed March 22, 2017]).
- ↑ 28-10-2016 - Live radio play - Songs for the Dead - RESET FESTIVAL. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 25, 2017 ; accessed on March 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jason Bartsch - Spex Magazine. Retrieved March 22, 2017 .
- ↑ June 2014. Accessed March 22, 2017 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bartsch, Jason |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lyric poet, slam poet, musician and presenter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1994 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solingen |