Welcome to the University stage.

Things are good units, but rarely show academic talent. And that is one of the Science Slam: The speakers will be a research topic of smart and entertaining explanation. Hamburger University to test it - running a show with big ideas and a reverie lawyers.

 

"You consume me," shouts the bearded lawyer Robert embittered, as he does not give a cigarette. "Me and my science does not get it for free, their sheep," he shouts over the microphone to the audience. Some stuck their fingers in their ears, others have been hearing.

Robert, the last speaker of the "Science Slam", stands on stage, with a gray jacket and cap. He stares at the startled audience, without actually wanted to prepare its claim for the legalization of cannabis and told of his promotion "Cannabis as Medicine."

Sounds at least in the scientific approach, and that it should. The Science Slam "is inspired by the concept of the Poetry Slam: a microphone, an actor, a limited amount of time to think about anything to talk about what you would like to get rid of. Whether singing, rhyming or gekläfft, is unimportant.

Only today is it scientific approach. It is Friday night in the back room of the Pony Bar, the first "Science Slam" in the same neighborhood at the University of Hamburg.

By Dino on backpacking in the mountains to Frühtau

Robert Schimpftirrade after waiting in vain for questions from the audience - "should I sing or start with Dada?" He sings: "In the mountains we Frühtau to draw fallera." On his backpack shake the dinosaur purse frantically back and forth. When Robert activity, is relieved to hear whispers.

Whoever wins, a jury will decide from the audience, as in the "Poetry Slam". The five jurors have blocks on your lap and give points on a scale of zero to ten. The Slam has only four participants, but the chance is confused Robert. He gets meager four points - from 50 possible ones.

The elongated side room of the bar is filled with old, wooden folding chairs and beer benches. As in a seminar room, the Slammer on a canvas to present their research work. The "Science Slam" idea comes from Brunswick. Offe Julia, 36, has inspired and then the evening in Hamburg organized. "I hope it established a new scientific pop culture," she says. The PhD microbiologist explores how insects with the help of enzymes defy deadly toxins - actually a fine template for a toxic Science Slam history. But "to participate as an organizer, I found not so good," she says.

Shortly before the start are in close, hot back room almost as many listeners, as on the folding chairs have seats. They occur from one leg to another, sipping on beer, grab for air. It is a contest in the talks, no one makes the most interesting research work. Every ten minutes, the four speakers talk about their research, with the means of their choice - and like a good science department, the poet made no texts, but to speak freely.

Lengthy vergrätzt the audience

Friederike Moldenhauer is editor and translator, moderated or even take a Poetry Slam - and is visibly nervous. The first speaks Slammer Martin Kaluza, doctoral philosopher FU Berlin, about justice, more specifically on the patent of pharmaceutical companies: "This reflects the principle of social welfare is no longer, but what the patent legislation was justified."

He explains why there are sick people in the Third World can not afford medications. "Then they die or fall out of the economic cycle," says the philosopher completely factual. Finally he explains the pixels on the projection screen as an extreme close-up. One of the things could either be too close and they will no longer recognize - or too far away, Martin shows on screen a small point. The jury is impressed: 33 points. The audience asks Martin even minutes for details.

The next sciences Slammer is not easy. Economist Sebastian Buschmann, 25, tells the story of sustainable fishing in New Zealand, with the fictional history of the ocean fisherman Steinfort: "Fish is in vain, thinks Steinfort, buys a bigger boat with all equipment and a flag of Zanzibar, although he did not so much fishing are allowed, as he wants. " Steinfort fishes now under the flag of a country's international fisheries agreement has not signed. The fish jump using the echo sounder is almost entirely self into the boat.

Follow? Overfishing. Even now, many fish are threatened with extinction. The audience is interested. Many wrinkle the forehead, but when Sebastian minutes a cost-benefit chart on the overhead projector to record a classic among the Unit mistakes, he had his audience and has the credit by Lengthy playful. The jury is quickly agree: 24 points.

Science should not be a slam-day stay

The Sociology Tobias Krone follows with a popular theory: "Bachelor's stupid and makes the accelerates student life unnecessarily." But Robert interrupted the presentation by Tobias wants to know if he is already on it, begs for a cigarette, it is difficult to frighten off the stage. And returns with a burning cigarette in a back room, which only needed an infusion to the sauna to be.

Tobias strives to be fair to illustrate why the Bachelor stupid does. And the slam ends in a stalemate: The audience can not decide whether or Martin Tobias win. Offe Julia is happy, the first Science Slam Hamburg is done. Also Robert is now on stage, welcoming drink a wheat and scribbles in an A4 block. Some doubted whether he might really be a lawyer - to prove Robert leaves behind a handwritten copy of his resume with all of its products.

The evidence, to be a philosopher, Martin Kaluza not need to bring. And some things you can not invent. Martin had initially told that he get e-mails with questions like: "Dear Doctor Kaluza how long you have to sand from a sand pile, so you do not more of a sand pile can speak?"

Science as a stage play, which is in Hamburg not remain mayfly. It should again give a science Slam, says Julia Offe - best with "space for subsequent rounds of talks," but without the sauna-like conditions. A new edition is scheduled for 5 November.