Tag: Audio books
Tips: Audio books for the summer – culture
The fictional town of Seldwyla is home to people like “Pankraz, the sulky”, Wenzel Strapinski, the “poor little tailor” from “Clothes Make the Man” or Viggi Störteler, businessman and “very…
“The total intoxication” by Norman Ohler: The drugs of the powerful – culture
One could really imagine lighter stuff to listen to on long drives or while jogging than Nazis splurging on cocaine, Wehrmacht soldiers pumped up by drugs and drug-addicted executives of…
Audiobook “Wack to the Future” – Media
When stories are told in 50 years, it might sound like this: “0100 1101 0110 0001 0110 0100 0110 1001.” Digital dialogues, quite melodic and rhythmic, but incomprehensible for humans.…
Audiobook: “The Canvas Knife” by Leo Tolstoy – Media
One of the most famous moments in intellectual history is that January morning in Turin, 1889, when Friedrich Nietzsche is said to have embraced a horse that had been tormented…
audiobook "expulsion of the spirit": Broken Biographies
The edition “Expulsion of the Spirit” presents three dozen conversations with intellectuals and scientists who fled Germany from the National Socialists. source site
Audiobook “Miss Marple – All 12 Cases” – Media
Of Stephen Fisher Where is Jane Marple? This is usually the second central question in Agatha Christie’s whodunit crime novels about the elderly lady who is usually smarter than the…
The audio books of the month – culture
A long drawn-out trumpet blast sets the cool tone that Ulrich Lamp’s radio play adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s famous novel “Bonjour tristesse” shapes. Later, the Big Band of the Hessian…
How does the tin drum sound? The best new audiobooks. – Culture
Lizzie Doron, born in Tel Aviv in 1953, was long considered a figurehead in Holocaust literature in her home country. Then the daughter of a survivor began listening to the…
Audio book column: From Heligoland to Dostojewski to Hermynia Zur Mühlen. – Culture
Heinrich Heine raved that the sky over Heligoland was “full of violins”. Hoffmann von Fallersleben wrote “Das Lied der Deutschen” there, and August Strindberg married. Writers have always been drawn…