Best of Poetry Slam Day

Best of Poetry Slam Day

A whole day dedicated to the spoken word. And that in the most spectacular location Hamburg has to offer: the Best of Poetry Slam Day in the Elbphilharmonie! It promises to be a feast of storytelling, poetry, stand-up and every other format slam poetry comes in. A »Rising Stars« event kicks things off.

Best of Poetry Slam Day

A whole day dedicated to the spoken word. And that in the most spectacular location Hamburg has to offer: the Best of Poetry Slam Day in the Elbphilharmonie! It promises to be a feast of storytelling, poetry, stand-up and every other format slam poetry comes in. The grand finale late in the evening is the Slam of Legends – multi-award-winning artists who honed their craft on slam stages in the past and who have since become famous across the country. Comedians, authors and musicians who were performing in poetry slams from their youth, and who now sweep across the country’s stages as if they were in their own living rooms.

Guest performance Champions Slam ‒ Poetry Slam Stars

Highlights of the best musicals

»Highlights of the best musicals« is more than just a concert - it’s a musical journey through the greatest hits of the German-speaking musical scene! Star soloists, a large choir and an orchestra guarantee first-class entertainment for all musical fans. The latest songs from »Hercules« will be presented as well as the popular hits from »Moulin Rouge«, »Mamma Mia«, »Ku’damm 56« and other current musicals.

The Best of Ennio Morricone

He received his last Oscar in February 2016 for Tarantino’s »The Hateful 8«. Morricone made himself immortal almost 50 years ago with his music for »The Song of Death«. His compositions for the Italo-Western classic »Two Glorious Scoundrels«, Roland Joffé’s drama »Mission« and Giuseppe Tornatore’s film »Cinema Paradiso« became particularly well known. His fans can experience Morricone’s unforgettable works live in selected cities. Star guest Marc Breitfelder is one of the best harmonica players in the world. The large ensemble of soloists, orchestra and choir of the Milano Festival Opera will also be on stage to bring Morricone’s captivating music to life. The technically sophisticated screen animation with the original film scenes intensifies the gripping atmosphere and creates the famous goosebump effect that nobody can resist.

Best of Tchaikovsky

Best of Tchaikovsky

Sung poetry

The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir was founded in 1945 by the then 27-year-old Eric Ericson, and has since then occupied a central place in Swedish and international music life. The choir ranks among the absolute top tier of professional ensembles internationally, and since 2003, the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir has had a close collaboration with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at Konserthuset.The choir's repertoire is very broad and spans from the Renaissance to the present day. In this concert, the choir has chosen to focus on the great German-speaking Romantic composers such as Franz Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, and Johannes Brahms, but also the lesser-known Peter Cornelius.The Eric Ericson Chamber Choir is led by guest conductor Justin Doyle, chief conductor of the prestigious RIAS Kammerchor in Berlin, where he also works as a professor of choral conducting at the Hanns Eisler School of Music.

SLAM SYMPHONY

The »Slam Symphony« is now in its ninth round in Bamberg and, as always, three award-winning poetry slammers will compete against each other to win the audience prize before the young Latvian conductor Aivis Greters performs the symphonic work. This time we will focus on Berlioz, a man about whom it was said that »despite all the eccentricity his compositions exude, he is a peculiar man, if only because he is driven by a burning, enthusiastic love for the arts, because he has blazed his own trail, and – because he is a character«. Bearing this year‘s motto in mind, his legendary »Symphonie fantastique« is a must: in 1830, the romantic fiery-head had a »fixed idea« that left its mark when it comes to setting states of the soul in music. At that time, the very young composer was in love with an actress unattainable to him. And so he composed these »Episodes from the Life of an Artist«, which of course was himself: the tale of a consuming passion, of hell, opium and madness. The almost obsessively adored one is both a wishful and distorted image in one and, in the »Idée fixe«, almost like a nightmare, always present – because this leitmotif constantly throws his soul into turmoil. It will be exciting to hear which lyrics and words will come to the slammers‘ minds!

SLAM SYMPHONY

We celebrate the anniversary of a format that we, as well as the participating writers and our audience, love: The »Slam Symphony« returns for the 10th time – and the composition it revolves around this season is ideally suited to creative imagination of the word acrobats: Under the baton of Taichi Fukumura, who came second in our Mahler Competition in 2023, we delve into the Nordic world – which is characterised by stories from times long forgotten, poems and ballads as well as mythical figures. Edvard Grieg loved the country of the fjords and often worked obsessively in ivy-covered huts such as his lonely summer house »Troldhaugen«, which translates as »Hill of the Trolls«. The music to »Peer Gynt« is his signature work – based on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic model, which he created with the help of Norwegian fairy tales: a story about a dreamer who uses fantastical tall tales to avoid reality and only realises late in life that only love will save him. Grieg’s setting describes this path of the »Faust of the North« with musical images of wild, romantic fantasticism. We can truly look forward to seeing how our award-winning poetry slammers put these stories into text. The day before, schoolchildren will be able to enjoy this musical programme, presented by Marko Simsa.