Julian Heun, Germany

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Julian Heun, born 1989 in Germany, is an author, Poetry Slammer and show host. He writes and speaks in the space between artful humour and humorous art. A German-language Poetry Slam champion, he works for Radio Fritz (rbb) and the creative agency DOJO and writes for the TV show Neo Magazin Royale (ZDF). At the moment he is working on his second novel. He has been a guest of the Goethe Institute at international poetry festivals on five continents and with the Edellauchs artists’ collective he organises and hosts Berlin’s biggest Poetry Slams in the Volksbühne, Ritter Butzke and Wühlmäusen theatres and in lidos.

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2009, 2011 & 2019 Berliner Meister im Poetry Slam
2010 Goldener Stuttgarter Besen & Publikumspreis
2007, 2013 & 2017 Deutschsprachiger Meister im Poetry Slam