Tag: audiobooks
Audio book “Seven Days of Mo” by Oliver Scherz, read by Jens Wawrczeck – Culture
First of all, “Seven Days of Mo” is a very good story in itself. Oliver Scherz tells about the twin brothers Karl and Moritz, Mo for short, and he does…
"The Sick Bag Song" by Nick Cave: Tour of Tears
Nick Cave’s literary poem “The Sick Bag Song” has become an energetic radio play about everyday life on tour – in which Tilda Swinton appears as an angel. source site
Edgar A. Poe: Audio book “The Raven and Other Stories” with Hans Peter Hallwachs – Culture
His admirers, from Charles Baudelaire to Arno Schmidt, have always known and celebrated that Edgar Allan Poe is not only an author of horror and suspense, but that his prose…
“Andreas 473” by Luksan Wunder: A sci-fi radio play, both comic and musical – culture
Menus, plane tickets, invitation cards – scanning QR codes to access information is now part of navigating the world. The comedy collective Luksan Wunder takes advantage of this and expands…
radio play "breathing": Just get out of Berlin
Happiness? Or misfortune? Blixa Cash and Hanna Rollmann lose touch with the world in the radio play “Breathing” on the Baltic Sea beach. source site
Audio book column: Unerring instinct
Gert Westphal and Bruno Read Kafka completely. Bjarne Mädel reads Maxim Znak’s stories from a Russian penal colony. Johannes Steck the “Pension Information 2022”. New audio books. source site
Audiobook: “Burned Child Seeks Fire” by Cordelia Edvardson – Culture
Daniel Kehlmann rightly says in the afterword to the new translation of Cordelia Edvardson’s biography “Burned Child Looking for the Fire”, which was first published in 1984, that it is…
Audio book: Charly Hübner and Carmen Miosga read “Anniversaries” – Culture
2024 will be a Uwe Johnson memorial year. Forty years ago this coming February, the writer died at his home in England, aged just 49 – with a damaged heart.…
Audio book “Voices of the Century 1945-2000” from Hörverlag – Kultur
German post-war history, reduced to 40 hours of audio documents. A foolhardy undertaking. Where do you start, what do you leave out? Who is speaking and in whose name? If…
Audiobook "The old ballerina": Absolute madness
An aging ballerina has to learn to say goodbye to her life and ends up in a brutal world of wonder. It makes you really happy when you listen to…