Let Samström

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Lasse Samström as a participant in the Box Slam in St. Gallen , 2005

Lasse Samström , actually Albrecht Lahme (born January 23, 1969 in Gerolstein ) is a German poetry slam writer.

Life

Lasse Samström at a performance in Frankfurt am Main.

Albrecht Lahme attended the Regino-Gymnasium in Prüm from 1979 to 1985 , then until 1987 the Vinzenz-Pallotti-Kolleg, a private school in Rheinbach , and then until 1990 the Rheinbach municipal high school . The stage name Lasse Samström he gave himself claims to be the end of the 1980s, when he was a punk singer occurred and Fun Punk - band "running amok chip shops" belonged. After the American spoken word movement took up in Germany in the 1990s and the genre of slam poetry became known to the public, Samström first took part in a competition as a slampoet in 1997. Since then, he has regularly participated in poetry slams throughout the German-speaking region and has also made several appearances at foreign slam events.

In 2002 he qualified in both the individual and team discipline for the sixth German-language poetry slam championship , which took place in the Swiss federal city of Bern and in which 17 teams and 64  slammers from over 30 cities took part. At this 6th German International Poetry Slam (GIPS) Samström won in the "Individual" discipline and with his "Wuppertal" team in the "Team" discipline. In the same year he won the Croatian Slam championship. In 2004 he took part in the World Championships and came fourth at Poetry International 2004 , which took place in Rotterdam , the Netherlands .

Samström is now one of the most famous poets in the German-speaking poetry slam scene. He has had hundreds of appearances in individual and team competitions, in which he has won numerous awards. In the period from 1999 to the beginning of 2006 alone, he won over 50 poetry slams at home and abroad and himself claims to perform at least hundreds of times a year. He also appears as a moderator in various formats, for example since 2012 at the "Rheinhexenslam" in Rheinbach or at Kunst gegen Bares in Düsseldorf .

He is considered to be the inventor of “ shaking prose and brute charm”, his credo is: “ Poems should be heard and not read. And the poet belongs on the stage. "

Lasse Samström lives in Prüm .

Quotes

Examples of Samström's "Schüttelprosa":

  • “ The inner Heineschwund. “- Title of his opening contribution to a literature festival
  • “ Pushing is wage! Zwone Eifel! "- on the subject of" love "

Text example for the "laminated shake rhyme cards" that Samström offers at his readings:

  • “ The ones without a shimmer are always nice. "

Awards (selection)

  • 2002: Winner of the 6th German International Poetry Slam in Bern ("Individual")
  • 2002: Winner of the 6th German International Poetry Slam in Bern ("Team"; as the "Wuppertal" team together with Jonas Jahn, Markim Pause and Michael Wefers)
  • 2002: Winner of the Croatian Poetry Slam Championship
  • 2004: 4th place at the World Championships as part of Poetry International 2004 in Rotterdam
  • 2011: Winner Fritz Night of Talents in the word acrobatics category

Works (selection)

CDs

Slam poetry contributions by Lasse Samström are included on the following CDs :

DVD videos

Lasse Samström's individual slam poetry appearances are included on the following DVD videos :

  • Temporary poetry. German International Poetry Slam. Talking station publishing house, Konstanz 2004, ISBN 3-932902-47-5 . (120 minutes)
  • Poetry slam. Volume 8. 2007. (30 minutes; in the holdings of the German Literature Archive Marbach )
  • Poetry slam. Volume 11. 2008. (30 minutes; in the holdings of the German Literature Archive Marbach)

literature

  • Stefanie Westermayr: Poetry Slam in Germany. Theory and practice of a multimedia art form. Tectum Verlag , Marburg 2004, ISBN 3-8288-8764-3 , p. 54.
  • Alex Dreppec et al. (Ed.): Poet's battle, black on white. Slam 2003. Darmstadt & Frankfurt. 1st edition. Ariel-Verlag , Riedstadt 2003, ISBN 3-930148-25-0 .

Web links

Commons : Lasse Samström  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Bring on the young talents!" The Modular Festival 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Neue Szene Augsburg , issue December 2008, p. 38. ( PDF file; accessed on December 13, 2010.)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.neue-szene.de  
  2. ↑ a b c See information about Lasse Samström on the poetry slam internet portal myslam.net. (Accessed December 13, 2010.)
  3. ↑ See [1] in his profile on last.fm (accessed on September 4, 2015.)
  4. ↑ See Stefanie Westermayr: Poetry Slam in Germany. Theory and practice of a multimedia art form. Tectum Verlag , Marburg 2004, ISBN 3-8288-8764-3 , p. 54. (Excerpt: “The sixth GIPS from Bern / CH caused a sensation in 2002: Around 2000 viewers as well as television and radio stations watched and reported on the event. 17 teams and 64 slammers from over 30 cities took part. Lasse Samström from Bonn won the individual competition. " )
  5. ↑ a b See lists of winners of the German International Poetry Slam competitions 1997 to 2007 on www.slam2008.ch. (Accessed December 13, 2010.)
  6. ↑ a b See History of the German-Language Poetry Slam Championships → Bern September 19 to 21, 2002 ( Memento of the original from June 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on www.slam2009.de. (Accessed December 18, 2010.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slam2009.de
  7. ↑ a b cf. Sandra Treml: Wortschatz. Pearls of the poetry slam. In: The Poetry Slam magazine. ISSN  1865-7206 , edition 1, Stuttgart 2007, p. 19.
  8. ↑ a b c d Lasse Samström . In: Participants of the 15th International Spring Book Week in Munich on the subject of “Literature & Sport” from March 30th to April 6th, 2006 on the website of the cultural department of the City of Munich . (Accessed December 13, 2010.)
  9. ↑ See André Müller: The best of the most verbose . In: Tink.ch online magazine , December 6, 2010. (Accessed December 13, 2010.)
  10. ↑ Cf. Sebastian Minas: Campus: 1. Trier “Science Slam” - knowledge with an entertainment effect! In: Online magazine 5vier.de, December 3, 2010. (Accessed December 13, 2010.)
  11. ↑ See German-Swiss word battle . On: Kultur-Online , April 11, 2008. (Accessed December 18, 2010.)
  12. ↑ GA BONN: “Rheinhexenslam” in Rheinbach: Lasse Samström: “The audience is ready for anything”. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Hash party in the staff room. Retrieved November 13, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Art for cash. In: Coolibri. Accessed on November 13, 2019 (German).
  15. ↑ Andreas Schmidt: Everything is different in these “readings” . In: Friedberger Allgemeine , October 20, 2010. (Accessed October 6, 2015.)
  16. ↑ Silvia Stieneker: “Poems belong to be heard” . In: Neue Westfälische , June 23, 2003. (Interview with Lasse Samström; accessed on December 13, 2010.)
  17. ↑ So it was: FritzNacht der Talente  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: Website of the Fritz radio station from April 30, 2011. (Accessed May 2, 2011.)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fritz.de  
personal data
SURNAME Samström, Lasse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lahme, Albrecht (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German poetry slam poet
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd January 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerolstein