The audio publishing house

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The audio publishing house

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legal form GmbH
founding 1999
Seat Berlin
management Amadeus Gerlach (Managing Director)
Branch Audio books
Website der-audio-verlag.de

The Audio Verlag (DAV) is a German audio book publisher based in Berlin .

History and conception

Audio Verlag was founded in spring 1999 by Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and Aufbau-Verlag . The occasion was the SWR radio production of the “Diaries of Viktor Klemperer ”, the book version of which was published by Aufbau-Verlag. The Spiegel publishing house participated in 2004 with 25 percent of the Publishing and increased its share in 2008 to 51 percent. In 2018, the Random House publishing group became the publisher's sole shareholder. Amadeus Gerlach is responsible for program management and management.

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program

The publishing program consists of fiction and non-fiction as well as an extensive children's and youth program. Around 1000 titles had appeared by 2011. The recordings, including readings, radio plays, features and sound documents, come from co-productions with radio stations, from their archives and from in-house productions. The authors set to music include modern literary classics (e.g. Fjodor Dostojewski , Émile Zola , Kurt Tucholsky ) as well as contemporary fiction (e.g. Gabriel García Márquez , John Updike , Michel Houellebecq ) and representatives of entertainment literature. Crime literature is a focus of the program. Together with Hörverlag , the DAV brought out eleven of twelve radio plays in the Paul Temple series of the NWDR and WDR .

Awards

The DAV received more than 50 prizes, including five times the " German Audio Book Prize ", three times the " Prize of the German Record Critics " and the " Hörkules ". In 2000, the publishing house received the “German Prize for Communication Design” for designing the audio books.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Spiegel-Verlag is the majority shareholder in DAV boersenblatt.net, December 9, 2008
  2. Random House takes over DAV boersenblatt.net, July 27, 2018