Yo, Yo, a lawyer.

Give the mic to the MC Berger, a law professor Cologne raps students a clause to enable more difficult lessons liable. The idea brought Klaus Peter Berger from the U.S.. Students shall designate the "Rapetitorium" nimble - and even produced a video.

 

Law does not apply just as the most entertaining of study, rather than extremely dusty terrain. We may be different, said a Cologne legal scholars and packaged a clause in a Raptext. "823 is a lightweight paragraph, I know all the conditions already in your sleep," writes Klaus Peter Berger, 47, in the lecture hall on the compensation. And it further nine short stanzas follow.

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A law professor, for his students raps? The idea stems from Berger's study time in New York. Since he came random times in a seminar room over, in which a professor's lecture by videoconference in Rapform held.

"It is important to me the message," says Berger: sing instead swot. He wants the students in the event of learning for lawyers "to teach how to learn creative Clauses. Finally, one of the Jura büffelintensivsten subjects, few students come without expensive Repetitorien by the tests - repeat Pauk courses, almost all exam candidates show.

Rapetitorium instead Repetitorium

The idea that tough lessons by unusual learning longer stick, is not new. Some private providers Latin courses for example, the vocabulary and grammar timpani on a combination of music, dance and classical lessons - so they want to activate different brain areas and the memory to spur new services.

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Photo: Berger / University of Cologne
Video: Berger / University of Cologne

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The professor rappende on Section 823

With the enormous material wealth of legal studies seems reasonable. The "time" Berger said that he was neither Gansta rapper, even if he wanted to be singing by Prof Gazette mind - but one example of creative methods give. His students should be "the left hemisphere use. Creatively learn associatively with emotion and music." On his faculty, he founded a center in which students practice new ways of learning, rhetoric courses and their negotiating skills can practice.

To hiphoppers Berger was, in Cologne civil and banking law teaches, on the second chance, his students are excited by the idea. The music student Niklas Remmer shall designate the 823-rap "and quickly made it a pretty soundfile (see the second part). And on Wednesday it was still a rap video premiered.

In the U.S., pop music and the academic world has long friendship: Even rap some professors in their lectures to the students to facilitate the memorization. From the state of Georgia in Athens, home of the band REM, comes with "Mikey Mel and the JD's" the "nation's first law of the USA Rock Band."

Soon Section 929 is due

Rap as a teaching experiment, which exists not only at the university: In Berlin, the duo raps
"Rapucation" (for rap and Education) before primary school pupils, for example on climate change and European history. "You breathe, and what you breathe in, breathe out the trees. You breathe out, and what you breathe out, breathe in the trees," write Robin Haefs aka Mad Maks and Vincent Stone aka Beatzarre on the metabolism. Their songs are carefully produced and can be heard. Another way of
Rapper Double-U, of the classics of Goethe and Schiller to hip-hop beats, rhymes - "Old School" on his own art

The video of the Cologne law professor, the university employee Daniel Behrends and Peter Butterly together with her students produced. However, only the participants of Bergers lecture "right thing" the pleasure of the premiere live.

What to say to a colleague so unconventional teaching method? "They share my concerns, new ways of learning to teach," says Berger. The 823-rap "is still his only. But that should not remain so: he could imagine soon once the clause 929 of the Civil Code (BGB) in verse form umzutexten. As is about property law, which fits to his lecture series.