Temye Tesfu

Temye Tesfu

With Temye Tesfu there are echoes of Allen Ginsberg and Rolf Dieter Brinkmann, but above all he has a voice, such as we haven’t yet heard: in love with language and rhythmically overflowing, but image-sharp. Tesfu knows where he wants to go. With his spoken word ensemble Allen Earnstyzz he creates highly dynamic stage pieces: mosaics of rhyme-staccato with almost musical interludes and sprinklings of humour. Allen Earnstyzz were, among other things, guests in Chicago in order to work up a bilingual performance with the Speak Easy Ensemble. Together with the illustrator Theresa Hahl and the illustrator Mehrdad Zaeri, Tesfu developed the live radio play “Die Tonbänder des Ignaz Euling”, which sketches out the panorama of a village in blank verse. He is the two-time runner-up in the German-speaking Poetry Slam (team category), works as a workshop facilitator and organizes slam evenings.