Lars Ruppel

Lars Ruppel in May 2010

Lars Ruppel (* 1985 in Gambach ) is a German slam poet and cabaret artist .

Life and work

According to his own statement, Ruppel has been performing as a “full -time slam ” on poetry slam stages since 2004 . He is one of the most famous representatives of the poetry slam genre in Germany. Ruppel gives workshops at schools and universities and is a member of the "Poetry Slam Boygroup" SMAAT, with which he won the 2007 team competition of the German-language Poetry Slam championships . In 2009 three of his works came out as the “Laruppel Trilogy”. In 2014 he won the individual competition of the German-language poetry slam in Dresden.

Together with others he founded the Marburg Slampoeten reading stage “Late Night Reading”, which takes place monthly in the Cavete jazz club in Marburg Upper Town. He has been active as a moderator or host of the event for years at numerous slam poetry competitions in the Central Hesse region .

Another focus of his work is the management of the project "Weckworte", in which an emotional access to dementia patients is created through appropriate performances of classical verses. This activity has meanwhile also given Ruppel recognition in specialist circles. In 2016 he published the anthology “Geblitzdingst” with slam poetry, which deals with the topic of dementia. He has been writing podcasts and the regular column Larses lyrical life counseling for the magazine Psych. Pflege Heute since 2013 .

For Radio Fritz he produced the podcast series Larsis lyrische Lebensberatung .

Lars Ruppel has been organizing a science slam twice a year at the Kreuz cultural center in Fulda since 2014. The event has been taking place together with the MINTmachClub Fulda since 2015. Since then, he has been supported in moderation by the university professor Sasha Skorupka.

Publications

• Soda. Lektora-Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-938470-35-0 .
• Glasses. Lektora-Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-938470-34-3 .
• Piggy. Lektora-Verlag, Paderborn 2009, ISBN 978-3-938470-33-6 .
• The bridges of the horses. (CD, with SMAAT). Publishing house Der Gesundheit Menschenversand, Lucerne 2009, ISBN 978-3-905825-10-7 .
• Back for food. (CD, with SMAAT). Talking station 2007, ISBN 978-3-939055-02-0 .
• Holger, the forest fairy: 10 poems about sayings. Satyr Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-944035-37-6 .
• as publisher: Geblitzdingst: Slam poetry about dementia. Satyr Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-944035-75-8 .
• The Ice Cow: New Poems on Sayings. Satyr-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-944035-85-7 .
• My dear Mr. Choral Society, the forest fairy fetches the cow from the ice: slam poetry on sayings. (CD). Satyr-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8371-3755-2 .

Web links

Commons : Lars Ruppel  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Lars Ruppel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Angelika Schindler, Gwendolin Cohrs: A life on tour . Interview and videos with Lars Ruppel. arte-tv, November 11, 2011. Retrieved May 22, 2014
• Ruppel's web presence

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Schlegel: Poetry as a martial arts. In: Der Spiegel. January 15, 2007, accessed May 22, 2014.
2. ^ Maria-Xenia Hardt: Poetry Slam in Germany. Poet and handlebar. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 22, 2014, accessed May 22, 2014.
3. ↑ Spiegel Online: Poetry Slam Masters 2014: Goes off like Schmidt's cat, old Swede! November 1, 2014, accessed January 16, 2015.
4. ↑ Insa Kohler: "Alzpoetry". Against the ink blots in the memory. ( Memento of May 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) litaffin, January 31, 2012, accessed on May 22, 2014.
5. ↑ Silke Jäger: Lars Ruppel - A poet in the land of the forgetful. In: ergopraxis. 2012, 5th year, No. 05, pp. 32–33.
6. ^ List of podcasts on Psych. Care today , Thieme-Verlag. Retrieved May 22, 2014.
7. ↑ Larsis lyrical life advice. ( Memento from May 22, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) on Radio Fritz
8. ^ Anniversary at the Science Slam - "Fulda is Germany's Silicon Valley". Retrieved March 12, 2020 .