Philipp Potthast

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Philipp Potthast (born September 4, 1994 in Munich ) is a German author, rapper and poetry slammer .

Life

Philipp Potthast grew up in Freising and completed a law degree in Munich . Since 2013 he can be seen regularly as a participant and moderator of poetry slams on stages. Potthast regularly takes part in German-language championships in the poetry slam and reached the semi-finals there several times, most recently in Zurich in 2018. His greatest successes include winning the Bavarian state championship in 2019 and being awarded the Freising district's youth culture prize in the same year.

Potthast's texts have been published in several text collections. He and Johannes Berger form the hip-hop duo and poetry slam team, Naturally Blond .

Between 2015 and 2018 Potthast led workshops in creative writing at the Munich Schauburg Theater , and since 2018 he has moderated U20 poetry slams there together with Ko Bylanzky . Together with Yannik Sellmann and Johannes Lenz he produced the podcast format "Weekly Rewind - the slam-poetic weekly review" for the radio station Bayern 2 .

Since 2019 he has worked as an author for the funk formats " Walulis " and "Walulis Daily".

successes

  • 2015. 2nd place at the Bavarian U20 state championship
  • 2017: 3rd place in the regular German-speaking championship with the Naturally Blond team
  • 2018: Nomination for the Tassilo Prize of the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  • 2019: 1st place at the regular Bavarian state championship
  • 2019: Youth Culture Prize of the Freising district

Publications

  • Article for: sins of youth . Ed .: Johannes Berger. Lektora-Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95461-059-4 .
  • Article for: Royal Bavarian Slam Anthology . Ed .: Pascal Simon. bp-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-944000-18-3 .
  • Text contribution for: Ink freshness III . Ed .: Sven Hensel, Victoria Helene Bergemann, Finn Holitzka. Lektora-Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95461-107-2 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Poetry Slam Bavaria Master Philipp Potthast: Top marks for his rhymes. In: Hello Munich. June 8, 2019, accessed June 25, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Uwe Eichler: A bucket full of pigs: Curiosities from the poetry slam. In: Mainpost. February 10, 2015, accessed June 25, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Pascale Fuchs: Youth Culture Prize Winner Philipp Potthast: “In Freising, more happens than you think”. In: Münchner Merkur. April 9, 2019, accessed June 25, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Semi-Final 1 - Individual Competition. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Reinhard Kalb: The masters in the poetry slam met at Bayernslam. In: nordbayern.de. May 20, 2019, accessed June 25, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Birgit Goormann-Prugger: First place goes to poetry slammer Philipp Potthast. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 26, 2019, accessed June 25, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ink freshness III. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Anne Gerstenberg: Fine rhymes from two rappers. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. March 7, 2016, accessed June 25, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Weekly Rewind - The slam-poetic weekly review. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Staff List "Walulis". Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Staff List "Walulis Daily". Retrieved August 2, 2020 .
  12. ^ Team final at the Poetry Slam Championships 2017. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Clara Lipkowski: On the borderline too stupid. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. January 21, 2018, accessed June 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Potthast, Philipp
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German author, rapper and poetry slammer
DATE OF BIRTH 4th September 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich