Poetry Slam Stadtmeisterschaft - Halbfinale 2

In the organizer's words:

Hamburg's best poets come to the Central Committee!

The Hamburg City Championships in Poetry Slam take place once a year. A 4-day festival to find out who will represent the city of Hamburg at the 2026 German-language poetry slam championships. The centerpieces of the festival, the two semi-finals, will once again take place in the Central Committee this year!

Hamburg is the German poetry slam capital; no other city hosts more regular poetry slam events. And the Hamburg City Championship is the city's most important slam event. The best poets, whether poetry, prose, politics or slapstick, meet here. It's all about fame, honor, a golden Elbsegler and the opportunity to represent Hamburg at the German-language championships in Hanover.

Poetry slam is a competition in which poets compete against each other with their self-written texts. They are not allowed to use costumes or props, it's all about the performance and the spoken word. The texts are always different. Sometimes funny, sometimes serious. Sometimes rhymed, sometimes narrated. Sometimes highly lyrical, sometimes silly. The thematic and formal freedom of the texts makes each poetry slam a unique, colorful event in which the audience finds itself between profoundly thoughtful texts and diaphragm-shaking comedy.

Who triumphs in the end is of course decided by the most competent jury there is - the audience.

The two semi-finals on June 3 and 4 will showcase the Hamburg slam scene in all its glory. Everyone will bring their best texts, because they all want to qualify for the final on June 6 at the Fabrik. If you want to experience poetry slam in all its facets, take a seat in the comfortable armchairs of the friendly theater on Steindamm and let yourself be captivated by Hamburg's power of words.

Further information:

www.bereicherungsbetrieb.de/stadtmeisterschaften