Thomas Spitzer (Author)

Thomas Spitzer (2019)

Thomas Eduard Spitzer (born September 29, 1988 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German author , comedian and promoter.

Life

Spitzer is the son of the university professor and publicist Manfred Spitzer . He grew up in Hofsgrund , Boston , Eugene (Oregon) and Ulm , studied mathematics , economics and philosophy at the University of Regensburg from 2008 to 2012 and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree . He has five siblings.

Act

Thomas Spitzer at the poetry slam Raus mit der Sprache in Bonn 2013

Spitzer first appeared in the poetry slam in 2009 . Since then he has won over 200 poetry slams in Germany , Austria , Liechtenstein and Switzerland . In 2012 he reached the semi-finals of the German-speaking championships in Heidelberg / Mannheim. In 2015 he took third place at the Bavarian Championships in Ingolstadt. At the Upper Palatinate Cabaret Prize, Spitzer was awarded the sponsorship prize by Ottfried Fischer at a gala moderated by Lizzy Aumeier in Mühlhausen . Spitzer also appeared at the NDR Comedy Contest. In autumn 2016 he won the Nightwash Talent Award. Since then, Spitzer has mainly appeared on comedy stages.

In the summer of 2014, “We are happy, the corners of our mouths point to the starry night like Angela Merkel's doing a handstand” was published by Spitzer's first book at periplaneta Verlag Berlin, which the online book community “What are you reading?” At the Leipzig Book Fair with the award for “Most Unusual Book Title of 2014”.

Spitzer has been writing for the heute show since autumn 2018 .

Projects

The Master Of The Uni-Vers is Bavaria's largest poetry slam with 1,500 spectators

In the summer of 2012, Spitzer and the Uni Jazz Orchester Regensburg initiated the project "bunt und Kühl", in which students from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz set three texts by poetry lamb Kaleb Erdmann, David Friedrich and Thomas Spitzer for big band to music to perform with the poetry lambs as soloists. The project celebrated its premiere in April 2014 and had over 1,500 spectators at around 10 events. The fusion of jazz and slam poetry was received positively by the reviews. This was followed by a book and a CD publication including a half-hour video documentation of the project.

In winter 2013, the Munich cultural organizers Ko Bylanzky and Thomas Spitzer successfully applied to host the German-language poetry slam championship in the U20 category in Regensburg . As part of this, in May 2014 they organized the “Master of the Uni-Vers” in the Regensburg Audimax. This was the most successful poetry slam in Bavaria with almost 1,500 spectators and was successfully repeated in November 2014. The U20Slam2015 was carried out with 66 actors from Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The participants fought for the championship title for four days in six preliminary rounds, two semi-finals and a grand final. Overall, the 13 events including the U20Slam2015 special at the Campusfest had over 3,000 spectators. The U20Slam2015 was Bavaria's first international poetry slam championship since the German-speaking championships in Munich in 2006 and the largest German-speaking U20 championship ever. In addition to the participants came the inventor of the poetry slam Marc Kelly Smith from Chicago, the French U20 champion Constance and many special guests such as Lars Ruppel , Julian Heun, Sebastian23 and Hazel Brugger . During the festival, two TV documentaries about poetry slams were shot.

The "Master of the Uni-Vers" has been repeated every six months since then and was always sold out. The guests included Felix Lobrecht , Till Reiners , Lisa Eckhart , Vincent Pfäfflin , Theresa Hahl , Pierre Jarawan , Friedemann Weise , Indiana Jonas von Das Lumpenpack , Andy Strauss and Nektarios Vlachopoulos . He has been moderated by Hazel Brugger since autumn 2016 .

In the summer of 2017, Spitzer founded the podcast “Comedy Gold” with the Cologne comedian Thomas Schmidt, which quickly became one of the most popular German podcasts in the “Humor” category. Since the beginning, a new episode has appeared every Monday without interruption. Guests included Usus Mango from RebellComedy , Johnny Armstrong , Erika Ratcliffe, Helene Bockhorst and Shahak Shapira . The podcast inspired Felix Lobrecht and Tommi Schmitt to create their “ Mixed Hack ” podcast . Their very first episode was recorded in his living room using Spitzer's equipment.

Since 2017, Spitzer has been running the YouTube channel Hazel & Thomas together with Hazel Brugger . In the series Germany Was Geht , published since 2019 , some of them were together with other celebrities such as B. Lutz van der Horst , Nico Semsrott , Nora Tschirner or Jasna Fritzi Bauer visited bizarre or special places in Germany.

Cultural trips

In April and September 2014 Spitzer toured Brazil with the Goethe-Institut and the Uni Jazz Orchester Regensburg, where he accompanied the orchestra as a travel writer to concerts in São Paulo , Recife , Manaus and the Amazon. In October 2014 Spitzer toured Taiwan and the People's Republic of China with the Goethe-Institut and the German-speaking poetry slam master Johannes Berger . There the two performed - as the first German poetry lamb ever - in Taipei , Guangzhou , Chengdu , Chongqing , Yuxi and Kunming , where they also gave workshops in schools and universities. On the basis of the resulting travel diary, Spitzer wrote his first narrative work "Goethe, Schiller, Chinakohl - As a humor ambassador in the land of smiles", which was published by Bastei Lübbe in 2016 . In October 2015, Spitzer traveled with the Goethe-Institut and Hazel Brugger to Chicago , where they also gave workshops and performed at the Green Mill, the birthplace of the poetry slam. In 2017 they were invited again by the Goethe-Institut, this time to New York . In the summer of 2018, Brugger and Spitzer spent three months in the United States, two of them in New York and one in the southern states. Spitzer and Brugger drove from Austin, Texas to Washington, DC and produced a documentary that appeared on Spitzer's YouTube channel in November 2018.

Works

• We are happy, the corners of our mouths point into the starry night like Angela Merkel does when she does a handstand. With enclosed CD. Periplaneta, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-943876-78-9 .
• The grandma dialogues. Invisible publishing house, Diedorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-95791-006-6 .
• (with Kaleb Erdmann and David Friedrich) Colorful and cool. ConBrio, Regensburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-940768-40-7 .
• Goethe, Schiller, Chinese cabbage - as a humor ambassador in the land of smiles. Bastei Lübbe , Cologne 2016, ISBN 978-3-404-60911-6 .

Awards

• 2014: Karl Marx Poesie Prize (2nd place)
• 2015: Most unusual book title of 2014
• 2015: Ingolstadt city champion in poetry slam
• 2015: Bayernslam (3rd place)
• 2015: Upper Palatinate Cabaret Award (sponsorship award)
• 2016: Winner of the year at the Bunker Slam Hamburg
• 2016: Nightwash Talent Award

Web links

Commons : Thomas Spitzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Thomas Spitzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Thomas Spitzer

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.br.de/nachrichten/oberpfalz/inhalt/oberpfaelzer-kabarettpreis-drei-sieger-100.html ( Memento from June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Thomas Spitzer at the NDR Comedy Contest ( memento of the original from April 27, 2015 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. 
3. ↑ Thomas Spitzer wins the Nightwash Talent Award 2016
4. ↑ "We are happy" at DNB
5. ↑ Most unusual book title with the corners of Merkel's mouth . In: bild.de
6. ↑ Review of the Neue Musikzeitung on "Poetry meets Jazz"
7. ↑ website U20Slam2015
8. ↑ Report Master of the Uni-Vers in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung
9. ^ Report by the Mittelbayerische Zeitung about the grand finale in the Regensburg Audimax in front of around 1,200 spectators.
10. ↑ Article in the Mittelbayerische Zeitung on the Master Of The Uni-Vers in November 2017
11. ↑ Thomas Spitzer's YouTube channel. Retrieved May 27, 2019 . 
12. ↑ http://www.uni-regensburg.de/kalender/eintrag/421053.html
13. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KECCBJDLRLc&t=5s video series Thomas and Hazel in New York City
15. ↑ http://5vier.de/die-11-trierer-stadtmeisterschaft-im-poetry-slam-im-mjc-151645.html
16. ↑ Report on the most unusual book title of the year on Buchmarkt.de
17. ↑ http://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/ingolstadt/Ingolstadt-Richtig-gut-gebruellt;art599,3023232
18. ↑ http://www.donaukurier.de/lokales/beilngries/Muehlhausen-Kuer-der-Nachwuchstalente;art601,3067927