Michael Jakob

This article is about the slam poet and author. The football player of the same name can be found under Michael Jakob (football player) .

Michael Jakob (* 1978 in Ansbach ) is a German author ,  slam poet , moderator  and organizer of poetry slam events. He currently lives in  Zirndorf .

Life

Michael Jakob grew up in Ansbach , where he first appeared on the stage in 1998 and was active as a cabaret artist until 2005 and as an improvisational theater actor in Central and Upper Franconia until 2011. From 2000 to 2006 he studied business administration at the  Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg  . He completed his studies with a degree in business administration. From 2005 to 2007 he also completed advanced training as a theater teacher at the Off-Theater in Neuss. From 2006 to 2015 he lived in Nuremberg, where he enriched the city's cultural life with numerous event formats. He has lived in Zirndorf since 2015 . Jakob has been the organizer and moderator of the poetry slam in Ansbach since 2003, and is now one of the most active slam organizers in Germany with regular series of poetry slam events in over ten cities (including Nuremberg , Fürth , Bayreuth , Ingolstadt ). During his active time as a poetry slammer, he was able to qualify for every German-language slam championship held from 2005 to 2011 and was the winner of over 100 local poetry slams in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In 2007 he founded the Frankenslam, the Franconian poetry slam championship, which is the oldest regional championship in Germany. He is currently teaching poetry slam at the Technical University of Nuremberg and the University of Coburg .

Michael Jakob has so far published several books with short stories and poems and is involved in over 10 anthologies, some of well-known publishers (including Piper Verlag , Carlsen Verlag ). In 2009, the theatrical collage he wrote, “Eine (r) dies immer” premiered and has since been performed in four cities. Since 2013 he has been the organizer of the first series of art against cash events in Bavaria and a member of Middle Franconia's first reading stage “The Reading of Others”, where he plays with the songwriter Gymmick and the poetry slammers Peter Parkster and Thomas Schmidt as a permanent ensemble.

Awards

• 2004 winner of the Frankenslam 2007 in the youth culture award of the city of Ansbach
• 2009 Wolfram von Eschenbach Prize (advancement award)
• 2009 Franconian Poetry Slam Master
• 2010 Franconian Poetry Slam Master
• 2012 City of Nuremberg Prize (Nuremberg scholarship)
• 2015 Artist of the Month in the Nuremberg Metropolitan Region in February 2015
• 2011 Karl Marx Poetry Prize of the City of Trier

Publications

• Love . Lektora Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-938470-55-8
• Peace . Lektora Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-938470-56-5
• Rock and roll . Lektora Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-938470-57-2

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Jakob in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Michael Jakob

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.nordbayern.de/kultur/dichter-unter-zeitdruck-1.767692
2. ↑ http://www.nordbayern.de/region/fuerth/wer-hat-angst-vor-seinem-ehepartner-1.665770
3. ↑ http://www.nordbayern.de/region/nuernberg/buhnenzauber-macht-sparschweine-satt-1.2766220