Poetry Slam? - Diary Slam!

Admit it - when you were younger, you always wanted to read your brother's, your sister's or your friend's diary. Or maybe still want to read it? If you weren't successful so far, there is another way to gain insight in those little locked books full of secrets. Maybe not in your sister's, but in diarys of those few people who dare to read out their intimate hopes, dreams and thoughts they once wrote down as a teenager to a large audience. The advantage: rather than desperatly turning side over side to find an interesting diary entry when your friend's on the toilet, you just sit there and listen what those people are going to tell you. Because they will always read out the best to you!
So, what am I talking about the whole time?  A long time it has just been popular in Germany, but it finally arrived in Austria as well: the Diary Slam!
Some of you might have heard of or already seen a Poetry slam. Poets "battling" each other verbally, the best poem wins. You think that's boring? Then you've never been there! Some of them make you laugh yourself to tears, it's absolutely hilarious! Usually those are the ones who win.
A diary Slam is a little bit different. As a participant, you won't sit for hours to create a good piece of writing because you have written it already years ago! As the thoughts and interests you had back then not always match with the ones you have now, it makes the "Slammer" him-/herself laugh once in a while or shake their heads in disbelief. No matter what, the audience will love you!
The next Diary Slam is in Vienna, I really hope it makes it to Graz as well!
Poetry slam takes place in Graz regularly, so if you wanna have a good laugh...:)

Here are some videos I found from the last Diary Slam, in German unfortunately.


here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGkJWNrmG2U


or here: http://derstandard.at/1395362971434/Was-ich-letztes-Mal-geschrieben-habe-ist-perverser-Bloedsinn