Tobias Kunze

Tobias Kunze (* 1981 ) is a German slam poet , rapper and author.

Since the beginning of the 2000s he has been a regular rapper and poet on German-language poetry slams and is considered one of the pioneers of the slam scene, especially for the Lower Saxony region. In 2008 he won the first North Rhine-Westphalian slam championships in Münster , and in 2009 the European Poetry Slam in Berlin . His texts included trips to Italy, Estonia, France, Romania, Belarus and Switzerland, including some on behalf of the Goethe Institute . He was also a guest at poetry and cultural festivals in Malawi, Madagascar and Cyprus. The Hanoverian reading stage Die Nachtbarden , which he co-founded, has existed in the TAK since 2007 . Today Kunze organizes numerous literary and cultural events in Hanover, such as the regular Power Words ! -Slam in the Hanover Opera . His texts are often written in the style of rap music, and Kunze often works with improvisation as a stylistic device .

Kunze is part of the four-man Hanoverian rap formation Big Tune , she released the album Melodinner in 2004 , the Rough Blues EP in 2010 , the EP Kopf hoch in 2016 and the EP Durch die Nacht mit ... in 2017 .

Publications (selection)

As editor

• Tobias Kunze (Ed.): City happenings in mixed weather . Schöneworth, 2006, ISBN 978-3-9811060-9-1 .

Text contributions on / in

• Word storm - new literature from Hanover (CD) original sound, 2005
• Dominik Bartels (Ed.): Something is rotten in the state . Blaulicht Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-941552-11-1 .
• Axel Klingenberg (Ed.): The Punchliner No. 8: Book magazine for satire and slam poetry . Verlag Andreas Reiffer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-934896-08-6 .
• Book or beer? Blaulicht Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-941552-16-6 .
• Thomas P. Langkau (Ed.): Here today - dead tomorrow ... Blaulicht Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-941552-15-9 .
• Sebastian Lehmann , Volker Surmann (eds.): Lost In Gentrification Satyr Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-9814891-6-3

literature

• Stefanie Westermayr: Poetry Slam in Germany: Theory and Practice of a Multimedia Art Form . Nomos, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8288-2383-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neue Presse, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Hanover - He brings the slam into the city - NP - Neue Presse. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
2. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Tips for poetry slam texts - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Neue Presse, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: Hanover - He brings the slam into the city - NP - Neue Presse. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
4. ↑ author: Tobias Kunze. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Jörg Rostek - iley.de: WIDER DAS VERSTUMMEN: Where 'shit' wins - considerations of a poetry slam. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Slamers rhyme in the home - care residence - house of rest. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 26, 2017 ; Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 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.  
7. ^ Events - Goethe-Institut Belarus. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
8. ^ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: word acrobats - poetry slammer Tobias Kunze sees the scene critically - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
9. ↑ About the night bards. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
10. ↑ Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung, Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany: That was the team poetry slam by power words in the Hanover Opera - HAZ - Hannoversche Allgemeine. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
11. ↑ "The writing will stay, definitely!" : langeleine.de - The online journal for Hanover . In: langeleine.de - The online journal for Hanover . ( langeleine.de [accessed on March 25, 2017]).
12. ↑ Hannover Robust. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
13. ↑ HR present: Big Tune - "Rough Blues" -EP (Download) - rappers.in forum. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
14. ↑ Cheer up, by Big Tune. Retrieved October 10, 2018 . 
15. ↑ Through the night with ..., by Big Tune. Retrieved October 10, 2018 . 
16. ↑ WORTGEWITTER - NEW LITERATURE FROM HANNOVER - The Audiobook with contributions by Mirco Buchwitz, Henning Chadde, Lars Daedalow, Kersten Flentner, Stefan Heuer, Silvana Klein, Fabian Kösters, Tobias Kunze, David von Nordstadt, Claudia Pahl, Jan Sedelies, Christian Sölter, Nico Walser - audio samples, MP3 downloads & information. Retrieved March 25, 2017 .