German audio book award

Winner of the German Audio Book Prize 2015

The German Audiobook Prize has been awarded annually since 2003 at lit.Cologne in Cologne to editors, directors and speakers of the best audio books of the previous year. Since 2006 the association “Deutscher Hörbuchpreis e. V. ". The total prize money is 23,331 euros.

The German Audio Book Prize, together with the audio books of the year on the hr2 audio book best list, is an independent guide for audio book lovers.

At the German Audiobook Prize 2012, a special prize was awarded for the first time for outstanding achievements in the audio book genre, which was announced in advance of the award ceremony.

Best of all

2003: Isaak Babel : The Cavalry Army. The editor and director Joachim Staritz received the award . Under the title "Best Audiobook"
2004: Flann O'Brien : On Swim-Two-Birds. Kein & Aber Records, Zurich, read by Harry Rowohlt
2005:
- Peter Märthesheimer : Krupp or the invention of the bourgeois age. Der Audioverlag, Berlin, speakers: Udo Schenk , Ulrich Noethen u. a., director: Norbert Schaeffer , production: Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Robert Musil : The Man Without Qualities , Remix. Der Hörverlag, Munich, conception and manuscript: Katarina Agathos and Herbert Kapfer , director: Klaus Buhlert , speaker: Manfred Zapatka , Ulrich Matthes , Susanne Wolf u. a., production: Bayerischer Rundfunk in cooperation m. d. Robert Musil Institute , Klagenfurt
2006: Dylan Thomas : Under the Milk Forest . Der Hörverlag, Munich, radio play adaptation and direction: Götz Fritsch , speakers: Harry Rowohlt , Boris Aljinovic , Hilmar Thate , Irm Hermann , Ursula Karusseit , Ulrike Krumbiegel , Winfried Glatzeder , Fritz Lichtenhahn , Gerd Baltus u. a., music: Peter Kaizar , production: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk 2003

Best radio play

2013 James Joyce : Ulysses . The Hörverlag / SWR , DLF

2014: Orphée Mécanique. Composer: Felix Kubin , Producer: BR radio play and media art . As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.

2015: Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel ( Rimini Protokoll ): Quality control or why I wo n't press the throat button . WDR / radio play park

2016: Yevgeny Zamyatin : We . Speakers: Andreas Pietschmann , Jana Schulz , Patrycia Ziółkowska , Hanns Zischler , Hedi Kriegeskotte , Wilfried Hochholdinger ; Music: Raphael D. Thöne / Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR ; Translator: Gisela Drohla ; Editor: Ben Neumann ; The audio publishing house / SWR

2017: Frank Witzel : The invention of the Red Army Fraction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969 . Speakers: Edmund Telgenkämper , Jonas Nay , Valerie Tschplanowa, Shenja Lacher , Christiane Roßbach, Peter Fricke , Oliver Nägele , Götz Schulte. Music: Frank Witzel, radio play adaptation: Frank Witzel / Leonhard Koppelmann . Director: Leonhard Koppelmann. BR radio play and media art 2016. As a podcast / download in the BR radio play pool.

2018: Paul Plamper : Servant Spirits . Hoerspielpark / WDR, BR, DLF Kultur, MDR, Ruhrtriennale 2017

2019: Judith Lorentz : Unterleuten , based on the novel by Juli Zeh . The Hörverlag.

2020: Annie Ernaux : The Years . Director: Luise Voigt, composition: Björn SC Deigner. The audio publishing house / hr

Best interpreter

2007: Andrea Maria Schenkel : Tannöd . Audiobook Hamburg , read by Monica Bleibtreu
2008: Janet Fitch : Paint it Black. Lübbe Audio , Bergisch Gladbach, speaker: Anna Thalbach , editor: Thomas Krüger
2009: Werner Fritsch : Enigma Emmy Göring . Speaker: Irm Hermann , Director: Werner Fritsch, Music: Mark Polscher , Production: SWR
2010: Andrew Sean Greer : History of a Marriage. Random House Audio, Cologne, speaker: Maria Schrader , director: Sabine Buss
2011: Janne Teller : Nothing. What is important in life . Silberfisch, Hamburg, speaker: Laura Maire , director: Thomas Krüger
2012: Zsuzsa Bánk : The bright days . Audio book, speaker: Doris Wolters
2013: Christa Wolf : August. The audio publishing house, speaker: Dagmar Manzel
2014: Elisabeth Herrmann : Schattengrund. der Hörverlag, Munich, speaker: Laura Maire
2015: Clare Furniss : The year after the world stopped. Oetinger Audio, Hamburg, speaker: Maria Koschny , translation by Andrea O'Brien
2016: Alina Bronsky : Baba Dunja's last love . tacheles! / ROOF Music, speaker: Sophie Rois .
2017: Thea Dorn : The unfortunate ones . Speaker: Bibiana Beglau .
2018: Paulus Hochgatterer : The day my grandfather was a hero . Speaker: Valery Tscheplanowa
2019: Annette Hess : German House . Speaker: Eva Meckbach
2020: Irmgard Keun : Gilgi - one of us . Speaker: Camilla Renschke

Best interpreter

Jörg Pohl with the German Audio Book Prize 2015

2007: Manfred Gregor : The Bridge. Hörkultur Medien AG, Dänikon (CH), read by Volker Lechtenbrink
2008: Leo Perutz : The Master of Judgment Day . Audiobook Hamburg, speaker: Peter Simonischek , director: Jochen Nix , production: hr2 Kultur
2009: Iliad . Speaker: Manfred Zapatka , new version by: Raoul Schrott , director: Klaus Buhlert , production: hr2, Deutschlandfunk
2010: Erlend Loe : Doppler. Speaker: Andreas Fröhlich , Production: Lauscherlounge , Berlin
2011: Ferdinand von Schirach : Guilt. OSTERWOLDaudio, Hamburg, speaker: Burghart Klaußner , director: Margrit Osterwold
2012: Sven Regener : My years with Hamburg-Heiner. tacheles! / ROOF Music, speaker: Sven Regener
2013: Sibylle Berg : Thank you very much for life. Audiobook Hamburg, speaker: Gustav Peter Wöhler
2014: Ursula Krechel : Regional Court. Audiobuch Verlag, Freiburg, speaker: Frank Arnold .
2015: Verena Güntner : Bring it. Speaker: Frederick Lau .
2016: David Foster Wallace : The Planet Trillaphone in Relation to the Bad Cause. tacheles! / ROOF Music, speaker: Lars Eidinger , translator: Ulrich Bumenbach.
2017: Friedrich Ani : Naked Man . Speaker: Ulrich Noethen .
2018: Walter Moers : Princess Insomnia & the nightmare nightmare . Speaker: Andreas Fröhlich
2019: Kazuo Ishiguro : What was left of the day . Speaker: Gert Heidenreich
2020: Michel Houellebecq : Serotonin . Speaker: Christian Berkel

Best children's / youth audiobook

2005: Hermann Schulz: When a Leo asks you the time. Hörcompany , Hamburg, read by Tristan Rehrl , director: Justyna Buddeberg-Mosz , music: Shikamoo Jazz from “Chela Chela Vol.1”, production: Bayerischer Rundfunk
2006: Uri Orlev : Run, boy, run . Beltz & Gelberg , Weinheim, speaker: Ulrich Pleitgen , director: Sven Stricker
2007: Burkhard Spinnen : Belgian Giants. Patmos Verlag , speaker: Boris Aljinovic , director: Felix Partenzi
2008: John Marsden : Dear Tracey, dear Mandy. Beltz & Gelberg, Weinheim, speaker: Anna Thalbach , Anna Carlsson , director: Georg Gess
2009: Louis Pergaud : The Button War. Radio play adaptation and direction: Judith Lorentz , music: Henrik Albrecht , production: SWR, DLR Kultur, HR, MDR, NDR, WDR

2010: Sally Nicholls : How to Become Immortal . Speaker: Kai Hogenacker , Patrick Mölleken , u. v. a., Director: Angeli Backhausen , Production: WDR, Igel Records

2011: Bibi Dumon Tak : cuckoo, octopus, cockroach . Oetinger Media, Hamburg, directed by Markus Langer , Cornelia Weber

2012: Marjaleena Lembcke : The Foxes of Andorra. Der Audio Verlag, director: Annette Kurth , production: WDR / SWR

2013: Robert Paul Weston : Zorgamazoo. Silberfisch in the audio book Hamburg Verlag, translation by Uwe-Michael Gutzschhahn

2015: Jörg Pohl : The boy who swam with the piranhas . Hörcompany , David Almond / Alexandra Ernst (translation from English)

2016: Michael Ende : The Neverending Story . The radio play. Speakers: Anna Thalbach , Hans Kremer , Sebastian Rudolph , Mechthild Großmann , Cathlen Gawlich ; Silberfisch in the audio book Hamburg Verlag / WDR

2018: Verena Reinhardt : The fearless Nelli, the daring Trude and the mysterious night flyer . Speaker: Franziska Hartmann ; Audio company

2019: Stefan Kaminski : Kannawoniwasein! Sometimes you just have to leave. Silverfish.

2020: Nicola Skinner : Agatha Strange Flowers for Revenge. HarperCollins at Lübbe Audio.

Best entertainment

2003: Vladimir Nabokov : Pnin . Speaker: Ulrich Matthes .
2004: Daniil Charms : Cases. Speaker: Peter Urban , Kein & Aber Records
2005: Raymond Chandler : Danger is your business. Speaker: Arnold Marquis , Hans Peter Hallwachs , Christian Brückner ; Editing and direction: Hermann Naber , production: HR , NDR , WDR and SWR ; The audio publisher
2006: Edgar Hilsenrath : The Nazi & the hairdresser. Speaker: Bodo Primus , Production: Saarländischer Rundfunk 1991, Random House Audio
2013: Marc-Uwe Kling : The Kangaroo Chronicles. Live and unabridged. Audiobook Hamburg
2015: Wolf Haas : Brennerova. Speaker: Wolf Haas, Hoffmann and Campe Verlag
2016: Mario Giordano : Aunt Poldi and the Sicilian Lions . Speaker: Philipp Moog , Lübbe Audio .
2017: Joachim Meyerhoff : Oh this gap, this terrible gap . The speaker is the author himself.
2018: Takis Würger : The Club . headroom publishing house
2019: Timur Vermes : The hungry and the satiated . Lübbe Audio. Speaker: Christoph Maria Herbst
2020: Karsten Dusse : Mindful murder . Random House Audio. Speaker: Matthias Matschke

Best fiction

2007: Antonio Tabucchi : Lisbon Requiem. A hallucination. Theater Zurich, speaker and direction: Ueli Jäggi
2008: Günter Eich : Dreams . Directors: Alexander Schuhmacher , Simona Ryser , Beate Andres , Bernadette Sonnenbichler , Sven Stricker , speakers: Barbara Auer , Traugott Buhre , Leslie Malton , Felix von Manteuffel , Udo Wachtveitl , Andreas Fröhlich u. v. a., music: Hans Schüttler , Marcio Doctor , production: Norddeutscher Rundfunk, 2006
2009: Sven Regener : Mr. Lehmann . Der Hörverlag, Munich, directed by Sven Stricker
2010: Alexander Kluge : Chronicle of Emotions. Antje Kunstmann Verlag, Munich, director: Karl Bruckmaier , production: BR
2011: Isabel Allende : The Haunted House . Der Hörverlag, Munich, Director: Walter Adler , Production: SWR, hr2 Kultur
2012: Paul Plamper : Serenity 1. Hoerspielpark, production: WDR / Museum Ludwig

Best non-fiction audio book

2013: Jean-Henri Fabre : The Sacred Pill Twist. An electro-acoustic audio book. BOOK FUNK
2014: Maximilian Schönherr : guillotine for daisies. The espionage trial against Elli Barczatis and Karl Laurenz in the original language. Director: Nikolai von Koslowski , Publisher: Christoph Merian Verlag, Producer: Westdeutscher Rundfunk
2015: Roger Willemsen : The House. One year in parliament.
2016: Neil MacGregor : Germany. Memories of a nation. Speaker: Burghart Klaußner , Director: Burkhard Schmid , Translator: Klaus Binder , der Hörverlag / hr .
2017: Hans Sarkowicz : Secret channels , major feature.
2018: David Johst / Fritz Bauer Institute (ed.): Fritz Bauer. His life, his thinking, his work . The audio publishing house
2019: Sabeeka Gangjee-Well / Hans Well : Red Bavaria - Long live the Free State!
2020: Mark Forsyth : A Brief History of Drunkenness. Schall & Wahn.

Best information

2003: Ryszard Kapuściński : King of Kings. The award went to the editor Gabriele Neumann and the director Hans Drawe .
2004: Ursula Voss : Let's try the impossible - memories of Che Guevara . Der Audioverlag, Berlin, read by Thomas Thieme , Hans Schulze , Christian Berkel u. a.
2005: Dorothee Mayer-Kahrweg : Chronicle of the Century 1900–2000. Der Hörverlag , Munich, Speakers of the intermediate texts : Birgitta Assheuer and Peter Heusch , Production: Hessischer Rundfunk , original sound documents from the German Broadcasting Archive and ARD
2006: Jochanan Shelliem : Don't cry, they just go for a swim! Der Audioverlag, Berlin, speakers: Gerd Wameling , Matthias Haase , Donata Höffer u. a., production: Südwestrundfunk 2004
2007: Volker Kühn : Hitler and the Artists - Howled with the Wolves. duo-phon records, speakers: Judy Winter , Dietmar Schönherr
2008: Michael Stegemann : The Glenn Gould Trilogy - One Life. Sony BMG, Berlin, speakers: Gerd Wameling , Imogen Kogge , Angelika Bartsch , Reinhart Firchow , Matthias Koeberlin , Götz Schulte , direction / text: Michael Stegemann, production: WDR 3, Sony Classical / Sony BMG Music Entertainment, 2007
2009: Maximilian Schönherr : The Stammheim tapes. Director: Nikolai von Koslowski , production: WDR
2010: Thomas Bernhard, Siegfried Unseld - »Correspondence«. Der Hörverlag, Munich, director: Götz Fritsch , production: hr2 Kultur
2011: Nelly Sachs I writer I Berlin / Stockholm. speak low, Berlin, directors: Vera Teichmann , Harald Krewer , production: Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandradio Kultur
2012: Müller MP3. Sound documents 1972–1995. Alexander Verlag, Berlin, Ed .: Kristin Schulz

Claudia Baumhöver, Publishing Director of Hörverlag with two audio book awards in 2014 and the HörKules 2014 for productions from her company

Best publishing performance

2007: Verlag Hörkultur, Zurich. The award goes to the publishers Wolfgang and Martina Koch
2008: Manfred Zapatka : Steinbach speaking books. Steinbach speaking books , Schwäbisch Hall, speakers: Eva Mattes , Manfred Zapatka, Nina Petri , Roman Knižka , Udo Samel , u. a.
2009: Two thousand and one for the program segment two thousand and one document
2010: headroom for the series wegwärts
2011: Cybele Records for the series Edition Artists in Conversation
2012: Architecture to Hear : Zumthor / Libeskind / Hadid, Publisher: DOM publishers
2013: Narrators 'Voices - The Authors' Library. der Hörverlag, ed .: Christiane Collorio, Michael Krüger and Hans Sarkowicz
2014: World literature for children. Audio company
2016: the sources speak. The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945. Speaker: Matthias Brandt , Bibiana Beglau ; the Hörverlag / Bayerischer Rundfunk

Best innovation

2003: Fümms bö wö taä zää uu. Voices and sounds of sound poetry. The award went to the editor Urs Engeler .

Best interpretation

2003: Arthur Schnitzler : Miss Else . Read by Senta Berger .
2004: Herman Melville : Bartleby, the Writer. Hastings AG - Theater Theater Department, Zurich, read by Ueli Jäggi
2005: Elfriede Jelinek : Jackie. Intermedium Rec., Munich, director: Karl Bruckmaier , speaker: Marion Breckwoldt , production: Bayerischer Rundfunk
2006: Charlotte Brontë : Jane Eyre . Eichborn Lido, Frankfurt am Main, read by Sophie Rois , Production: Eichborn LIDO 2005

The special audio book

2004: Supposé (edition). Supposé, Cologne, conception and production: Klaus Sander
2005: parlando - Edition Christian Brückner. Parlando, Berlin, conception: Christian and Waltraut Brückner, speaker: Christian Brückner
2006: Rolf Dieter Brinkmann : Words Sex Cut. Original sound recordings 1973. Intermedium Rec., Munich, compilation: Herbert Kapfer and Katarina Agathos
2007: The Canterville Ghost - An orchestral radio play based on Oscar Wilde . Headroom Sound Production , Cologne, music: Henrik Albrecht , radio play adaptation and direction: Judith Lorentz , speakers: Peter Fricke , Laura Maire and Stefan Kaminski , production: SWR, DLR, HR2, NDR, WDR 2006. Award for the music.
2008: Peter Weiss : The Aesthetics of Resistance . Der Hörverlag, Munich, speakers: Peter Fricke , Robert Stadlober , Helga Fellerer , Rüdiger Vogler , Michael Tregor , Hanns Zischler , Ulrich Frank u. a., radio play adaptation and direction: Karl Bruckmaier , music: David Grubbs , production: BR radio play and media art, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln 2006. Award for director.
2009: Louis-Ferdinand Céline : Journey to the end of the night . Director: Ulrich Lampen , music: Zeitblom , production: BR. Award for sound design.
2010: Åke Edwardson : Heaven on Earth. Random House Audio, Cologne, director: Wolf-Dieter Fruck . Award as the best crime novel.
2011: Mark Z. Danielewski : Das Haus - House of Leaves . Der Audioverlag, Berlin, processing: Thomas Böhm , production: WDR. Award for editing.
2012: Charles Baudelaire : The Artificial Paradises. Audiobook Hamburg, editing: Kai Grehn , production: author / RB. Award for special daring.
2014: Aldous Huxley : Brave New World. der Hörverlag, Munich, speaker: Matthias Brandt , translator: Uda Strätling . Director: Sven Stricker . Award for best science fiction

Best podcast

2019: Transformer by Christina Wolf (Editor: Till Ottlitz, Bayerischer Rundfunk)
2020: Leonora von Lena Gürtler, Britta von der Heide and Volkmar Kabisch (Editor: Thilo Guschas / Ulrike Toma, NDR Info)

Special price for his / her life's work

2012: Christian Brückner
2014: Katharina Thalbach
2016: Oliver Rohrbeck , Jens Wawrczeck and Andreas Fröhlich as “ The three ??? "
2018: Eva Mattes
2020: Axel Milberg

Web links

Commons : German Audiobook Prize - collection of images, videos and audio files

German audio book award

Individual evidence

^ BR radio play Pool - Kubin, Orphée Mécanique ( Memento from January 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
^ BR radio play Pool - Witzel, The invention of the Red Army faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969
↑ German Audiobook Prize 2016: Sophie Rois, Lars Eidinger and Philipp Moog honored for excellent speaker performance / special prize for “Die Drei ???” ( Memento from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), press release deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de from January 28, 2016
^ German audio book prize for Matschke and Icks. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , February 6, 2020, accessed on February 7, 2020 .

[1] BR radio play Pool - Kubin, Orphée Mécanique ( Memento from January 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

[2] BR radio play Pool - Witzel, The invention of the Red Army faction by a manic-depressive teenager in the summer of 1969

[DHP2016-3] German Audiobook Prize 2016: Sophie Rois, Lars Eidinger and Philipp Moog honored for excellent speaker performance / special prize for “Die Drei ???” ( Memento from January 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), press release deutscher-hoerbuchpreis.de from January 28, 2016

[4] German audio book prize for Matschke and Icks. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , February 6, 2020, accessed on February 7, 2020 .