CAPITOL Poetry Slam #1 - Team Slam
On January 31, 2025, the Capitol will open its doors for the first Poetry Slam and will present the flagship discipline of this format at truly masterful level: Three nationally successful slam teams will immerse the audience in a literary rollercoaster of emotions. You can expect intelligent, witty, deeply moving, rapped, dadaistic, and fast-paced word performances at the highest level. The audience will serve as the jury that evening and will decide through scoreboards which team emerges victorious from the first Capitol Slam. Theresa Sperling, the German-language champion of 2023, will host the show and open the illustrious competition with her teammate Matti Linke.
The team "no friends" consists of the slam poets, comedians, and presenters Lennart Hamann and Hannes Maaß. The two have known each other for twenty years, have been sharing the slam stage since 2012, and have been living together since 2016. Together, they organize slam and other small art events in Hamburg and the surrounding area. As a team, they captivate with intelligent, witty, and simultaneously moving texts and their remarkable penchant for one-minute rhyme chains. In the end, everyone leaves the hall thinking, "Wow, they must be the best friends." And they are. In 2022, the two celebrated the premiere of their duo show "Zwei." In the same year, "no friends" made it to the finals of the German-language slam championships in Vienna.
Ortwin Bader-Iskraut and Samson, beer drinkers, fun enthusiasts, and two real rascals by passion, initially had only one goal: to create the worst pun in the world. As the slam team "Wortwin & Slamson," they have won the German-language Poetry Slam Championship twice in a row, making them the most successful team in Germany. On stage, the two present high-speed texts ranging from dadaism to social critique, absurd audience interaction, and impressive drinking stamina.
The theater director Lisa Pauline Wagner and educator Heidi Wagner have been performing as the highly successful slam team "Wagner&Wagner" on large and small stages across the country for three years. In 2023, the two sisters became Berlin-Brandenburg runners-up and competed in the semifinals of the German-language championships in Bochum. Their texts are fast-paced, witty, profound, and - as could be expected - extremely well-rehearsed. The two Berliners founded a non-profit organization for international theater projects and co-directed the youth theater "Das Durchgedrehte Drama."
Featured Team "Sophie und Fabel"
The spectacular evening will be highlighted by the Lower Saxony-Bremen champions in team category 2023: The Hanoverian student Matti Linke and the Nordhorn teacher Theresa Sperling address the burning issues of our time in their texts, slamming lyrically, deeply content-wise, linguistically skilled, and title-worthy across Germany: Both have won the Lower Saxony-Bremen championships in individual and team categories. As the team "Sophie & Fabel," they culminate the captivating slam style of the reigning team champions into an emotional fireworks display.
Doors open: 7:00 PM
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