Philippe Schockweiler, born in Luxembourg in 1985, organizes poetry slam shows in Luxembourg since 2015 with the Géisskan Kollektiv (lux. watering can). He is also a freelance journalist, media trainer for NGO & nonprofits communication, author and war correspondent. He has participated in over 100 poetry slam events and has also won several events (among others Trier, Cologne).
As a journalist he works mainly in crisis areas and processes these missions not only in podcasts, films and articles but also in his texts on stage. In doing so, he mainly describes the state of survival of the so-called “human condition”. As a journalist he works in Luxembourg, Germany and Ukraine with various media. In 2022 he worked exclusively in Ukraine as a correspondent. Before his engagement as a journalist, Schockweiler worked mainly as a communications manager for European NGOs and nonprofits such as Greenpeace France & Luxembourg.