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The DAAD office in Brussels is organizing, under the direction of Michael Hörig and as part of the  Week for German, a workshop for German-language Spoken Word Poetry.
The workshop will take place at the DAAD premises in Brussels and will be led by the poetry slammer Paul Bank from Stolberg, who has already led Poetry Slams in Ghent and Liège in the past two years.
The German language is hard. Complex and accented. It is loud, emphatic, yet emotionless. You can never really “write beautifully” in German. You can never really “sound beautiful” in German. And yet there are words like “Sehnsucht” (longing), “Mondlicht” (moonlight), or “Augenblick” (moment). There are great German poets and authors. Yes, there is such a thing as “the beautiful German language.”
This workshop, designed as an “Introductory Course to Spoken Word,” is aimed at all students of German Studies interested in exploring the modern use of the German language. The focus lies on creative writing and especially on the contemporary literary format of “Spoken Word / Slam Poetry” – a blend of poetry, prose, and performance.
Participants will gain initial experience in writing and performing their own creative texts in a relaxed setting.
By the end of the workshop, all participants will leave with at least one original piece – and (hopefully) with a new appreciation for how beautiful, creative, sonorous, and poetic the German language can be.