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Spoken Beats–Jurczok 1001

Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland New York present a spoken word performance by Jurczok 1001 and the book launch of Spoken Beats (Edition Patrick Frey, 2018). The performance will be followed by a conversation between the artist Roland Jurczok and Robert Cohen, Professor Emeritus of German Studies at NYU.

Event Information:

Spoken Beats is Jurczok’s term for the way he presents his vision of stage poetry: Jurczok produces a virtuoso mix of spoken word, vocals and live looping -=– and he does it with soul, quirky humor, and infectious charm. Jurczok stretches his words out into a silky sound, intones them rhythmically almost like a human beatbox, raps them, loops them, and accompanies them with polyphonic song. The performance will take place in English, German, and Swiss-German dialect.

About the book:

After 20 years of literature on stage, Jurczok published his first book, Spoken Beats, in March 2018, with the celebrated publishing house Edition Patrick Frey. In order to do justice to the spoken word medium in book form, the manuscripts used by Jurczok for his performances have been published in facsimile. With notes on delivery, tempo, and pitch, with corrections and revisions – so that the reader gets a taste of the performance. Spoken Beats contains a wide selection of his typed scripts, ranging from his early raps to pieces inspired by concrete poetry. Jurczok writes about whatever moves him: love, language, music, politics. His abundant use of repetition generates both meaning and humor while exposing patterns of speech and caricaturing political propaganda. Language becomes a play, not only on stage, but also within the text. The lyrics are not ready-for-press poetry, but scripts to work with on stage.

About the speakers:

Roland Jurczok alias Jurczok 1001 is a poet, a singer and an MC all rolled into one, and is among the pioneers of spoken word in Switzerland. He has been appearing across the German-speaking world since 1996 and has been invited to numerous international festivals. He has performed among other places at the Berlin Poetry Festival, at the woerdz Festival in Lucerne, at Moscow’s Electrotheatre and at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. For the past 20 years he has also performed as a duo with the author Melinda Nadj Abonji. In Switzerland he has toured with the US spoken word artist Ursula Rucker. He has received many awards for his genre-busting and interdisciplinary work. Buchjahr.ch recently called him ‟one of Switzerland’s best-practised poets.” Berlin’s Tagesspiegel newspaper wrote: ‟A phenomenal performance.”

Robert Cohen is a professor of history and social studies in the Department of Teaching and Learning at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Cohen, who has an affiliated appointment in NYU’s Department of History, has authored or edited several works on the history of free speech on campus, including: Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s; The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings That Changed America; The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (co-edited with Reginald E. Zelnik); When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941; Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s (co-edited with David Snyder); and Howard Zinn and the Spelman College Student Movement, 1963 (in press).

Attendance information:

Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to [email protected]. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!

“Spoken Beats – Jurczok 1001” is a DAAD-supported event. Additional support is provided by the Consulate General of Switzerland New York.











When: Mon., Sep. 17, 2018 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Deutsches Haus at NYU
42 Washington Mews
212-998-8660
Price: Free
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Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Consulate General of Switzerland New York present a spoken word performance by Jurczok 1001 and the book launch of Spoken Beats (Edition Patrick Frey, 2018). The performance will be followed by a conversation between the artist Roland Jurczok and Robert Cohen, Professor Emeritus of German Studies at NYU.

Event Information:

Spoken Beats is Jurczok’s term for the way he presents his vision of stage poetry: Jurczok produces a virtuoso mix of spoken word, vocals and live looping -=– and he does it with soul, quirky humor, and infectious charm. Jurczok stretches his words out into a silky sound, intones them rhythmically almost like a human beatbox, raps them, loops them, and accompanies them with polyphonic song. The performance will take place in English, German, and Swiss-German dialect.

About the book:

After 20 years of literature on stage, Jurczok published his first book, Spoken Beats, in March 2018, with the celebrated publishing house Edition Patrick Frey. In order to do justice to the spoken word medium in book form, the manuscripts used by Jurczok for his performances have been published in facsimile. With notes on delivery, tempo, and pitch, with corrections and revisions – so that the reader gets a taste of the performance. Spoken Beats contains a wide selection of his typed scripts, ranging from his early raps to pieces inspired by concrete poetry. Jurczok writes about whatever moves him: love, language, music, politics. His abundant use of repetition generates both meaning and humor while exposing patterns of speech and caricaturing political propaganda. Language becomes a play, not only on stage, but also within the text. The lyrics are not ready-for-press poetry, but scripts to work with on stage.

About the speakers:

Roland Jurczok alias Jurczok 1001 is a poet, a singer and an MC all rolled into one, and is among the pioneers of spoken word in Switzerland. He has been appearing across the German-speaking world since 1996 and has been invited to numerous international festivals. He has performed among other places at the Berlin Poetry Festival, at the woerdz Festival in Lucerne, at Moscow’s Electrotheatre and at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. For the past 20 years he has also performed as a duo with the author Melinda Nadj Abonji. In Switzerland he has toured with the US spoken word artist Ursula Rucker. He has received many awards for his genre-busting and interdisciplinary work. Buchjahr.ch recently called him ‟one of Switzerland’s best-practised poets.” Berlin’s Tagesspiegel newspaper wrote: ‟A phenomenal performance.”

Robert Cohen is a professor of history and social studies in the Department of Teaching and Learning at NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Cohen, who has an affiliated appointment in NYU’s Department of History, has authored or edited several works on the history of free speech on campus, including: Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s; The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings That Changed America; The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s (co-edited with Reginald E. Zelnik); When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America’s First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941; Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s (co-edited with David Snyder); and Howard Zinn and the Spelman College Student Movement, 1963 (in press).

Attendance information:

Events at Deutsches Haus are free and open to the public. If you would like to attend this event, please send us an email to [email protected]. Space at Deutsches Haus is limited, please arrive ten minutes prior to the event. Thank you!

“Spoken Beats – Jurczok 1001” is a DAAD-supported event. Additional support is provided by the Consulate General of Switzerland New York.

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