HuelsTrunk is a soundpoet, spoken word poet, writer, minimalist, creative writing teacher and curator of art/poetry events from Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Influences range from Dada, Surrealists, Fluxus, Beatpoets to Pop and modern electronic sound-poetry.
He frequently collaborates with artists & musicians and is founder of the improvising jazz-poetry performance project "SOUNDS LIKE POETRY?" Since 2011 collaboration with finnish performance artist Juha Valkeapää as „JIRK“.
HuelsTrunk has performed live all over Germany, many European countries and the US. He is giving lectures and workshops on performance poetry at schools and universities and Goethe Institute. He is also one of the pioneers of the Poetry Slam Movement in Germany, organizing Poetry Slam, Spoken Word events and Festivals since 1996.

Books:
-Antikörper/Antibodies (Germ./Engl), HuelsTrunk – Text, Brandstifter – Collages, Translation: Fred Bergman, Lichtblau Verlag, Frankfurt, 2009
-SITZEN GEHEN STEHEN (Minimal Prose),Darmstadt & Dreieich 1997
-ECHT, (phantastic short novel), Vienna 1995

Solo-Audio CD:
-Free Mouse Jazz – HuelsTrunKollektiv, Jamendo 2011
-Blitzkrieg/ Gemutlichkeit, gruenrekorder, 2005
–Examples of Sample Poetry, gruenrekorder 2004,
-Wer ist Erwin?, gruenrekorder 2004.