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Poetry of Cities of LiteraturePhilipp Herold

We continue our journey through poetic Heidelberg — Literaturstadt Heidelberg.
Today, we invite you to meet the young Heidelberg poet Philipp Herold. 
Philipp Herold (born in Heidelberg in 1991) writes and performs poetry. He is an author and performer, a two-time runner-up in the German-speaking region’s poetry slam competitions, and co-founder of the collective Verschwende deine Lyrik! (“Waste Your Poetry!”).
Over the past 15 years, he has performed his poems on stage more than 1,000 times — from the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and Volksbühne Berlin to the Staatsoper Hannover, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Theaterhaus Stuttgart, and Schauspielhaus Zürich.
In 2018, he published his book Alles zu seiner Zeit (“Everything in Its Time”), followed by the EP Von hier an (“From Here On”) in 2021. In 2022, he received the Hessian Spoken Word Prize, and in 2023 he was an artist-in-residence in the UNESCO City of Barcelona.
We invite you to listen to Philipp:


Elementary small lines (Elementarzeilchen)
If themselves in the big periodic tablea few individuals so well understand (each other)that they themselves approach and trywith each other to fuseuntil molecules themselves connect / bondand structures anew inventthat themselves at ends tenderly graspuntil they into-each-other fitin order themselves to unite like never beforethen is right the chemistry


The project was created by the Odesa UNESCO City of Literature and being implemented with funds raised by Reykjavik City of Literature Reykjavík Bókmenntaborg UNESCO as part of the readings initiated by Milano City of Literature “Not Just Words” (Reading for Odesa) on February 24, 2024.

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