Ko Bylanzky

Ko Bylanzky at the Grandmaster Slam in St. Gallen

Ko Bylanzky , bourgeois Bernhard Althoff (born December 14, 1972 in Munich ), is a German literary organizer , MC , author, poetry slam essayist and slam master who works primarily with Rayl Patzak , a former school friend.

Events

Since 1996, Bylanzky and Patzak have been organizing the Munichslam , one of the largest regularly held poetry slam events in Europe, and other poetry slam events in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, as well as workshops for students, every month in the Munich Club Substance . In 1998 and 2006 they organized the German-language Poetry Slam championships in Munich . Since 2018, Ko Bylanzky and Moses Wolff have been organizing the first Bavarian dialect slam Wer ko der ko in the Munich Theater Hofspielhaus .

Awards

• 2020: Schwabing Art Prize

Publications

• K. Bylanzky, R. Patzak (eds.), Poetry Slam: What the microphones hold. Poetry for the New Millennium , Ariel-Verlag , 2000 ISBN 978-3-930148-19-6
• K. Bylanzky, R. Patzak, Planet Slam. Das Universum Poetry Slam , yedermann , 2002 ISBN 978-3-935269-20-9
• K. Bylanzky, R. Patzak (eds.), Planet Slam 2. A travel guide through the worlds of the Poetry Slam , yedermann, 2004 ISBN 978-3-935269-26-1
• K. Bylanzky, R. Patzak (Eds.), Europe speaks: The first European Slam & Spoken Word Poetry Compilation (Audiobook), Der Gesundheit Menschenversand , 2006 ISBN 978-3-9522993-2-6

Web links

Commons : Ko Bylanzky  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ko Bylanzky in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernie (1996 to 1998) , Flinke Bottles.
2. ↑ Poetry Slam ( Memento from January 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), City of Munich.
3. ^ Ana Maria Michel: Slam Master Ko Bylanzky - Words with Substance , Süddeutsche Zeitung, June 1, 2010.
4. ^ Ko Bylanzky ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Literatur Jetzt!

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