Timo Brunke is the poeta doctus of the spoken word scene, a "learned poet." He improvises rhymes and verses on stage with ease. With the same ease, he composes a "Tetra-Ode in Übermarkt" in classical stanza form at his desk. The echoes of ancient epics, as well as works by Schwitters, Brecht, Pastior, and Schiller, are as pronounced as the various stanza and verse forms from literary history. The classic tools of a poet, indeed? Yet with the same playful seriousness, Timo Brunke also embraces the magic of beats, loops, and breaks, particularly the linguistic aesthetics of rap: Orpheus, the prince of poets, goes downtown, into the inner cities, to block parties and poetry slams. From the musical-literary underground, this Orpheus brings Knittel raps, vocabulary songs, and verses that are refreshingly new.