The sources speak
The sources speak is a documentary audio edition by the radio play and media art editors of Bayerischer Rundfunk in collaboration with the Institute for Contemporary History .
Conception
The starting point is the 16-volume source publication The Persecution and Murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 . The 16-part documentary audio edition of the BR will be realized in the period from 2013 to 2019. In the audio edition, actors and contemporary witnesses read hundreds of selected documents, from the time from the anti-Semitic actions in Germany after the National Socialist seizure of power to the Holocaust, which spread across Europe. The documents were written by perpetrators, victims and observers; they are newspaper reports, calls for help, ordinances, orders, private letters and diary entries. The documents are arranged chronologically in order to avoid interpretive and dramaturgical sequences. A representative cross-section of all areas of life is provided in constantly changing perspectives. People have their say in their perception and their different horizons. In addition, there are personal, life-historical insights from Jewish contemporary witnesses who participate in the production as speakers and report on how they themselves experienced and survived the persecution.
Contemporary witnesses
Contemporary witnesses who take part (s) in the project include: Ursula Beyrodt, Mirjam Bolle, Henry G. Brandt, Henny Brenner, Assia Gorban, Bea Green, Alfred Grosser , Natan Grossmann, Ernst Grube, Helene Habermann, Jorge Hacker, Stefan Hajdu, Georg Heller, Arno Hamburger , Heinz Hesdörffer , Helga Hošková-Weissová, Ina Iske, Walter Joelsen , Anna Kelen, Ruth Klüger , Charlotte Knobloch , Pavel Kohn, Anita Lasker-Wallfisch , Inge Lammel , Jacqueline van Maarsen , Kurt Salomon Maier, Ursula Mamlok , Max Mannheimer , Ruth Meros, Abba Naor , Paul Niedermann, Wolfgang Nossen, Ari Rath , Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Zelig Rosenblum, Henry Rotmensch, Jules Schelvis , Margit Siebner, Uri Siegel , Trude Simonsohn , Pavel Stránský, Szlomo Targownik, Helga Verleger, Peter Weitzner, Berthold Winter, Salo Wolf.
Listening edition
The project is designed to last around 80 hours. It is broadcast in Bayern 2 . The audio book edition is published by Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-8445-1830-6 . The speakers for the production are: Bibiana Beglau , Matthias Brandt , Wiebke Puls . Coordination of the project: Susanne Heim / Herbert Kapfer (2012–2017) / Katarina Agathos (since 2017). Script of the listening edition: Katarina Agathos, Michael Farin , Susanne Heim, Angelika Königseder, Stephanie Metzger. Direction: Ulrich Gerhardt , Ulrich Lampen . BR Radio Play and Media Art 2013ff.
website
The documentation will be permanently available on the website die-quellen-rechen.de . There is also biographical information on the contemporary witnesses involved. A lot of additional information is offered under the heading Discourse . Research questions are discussed by scientists. The site offers background information on historical events and the scientific edition as well as the conception of the listening edition.
Prices
The sources speak was awarded the German Audiobook Prize 2016 (Category: Best Publishing Achievement).
Reviews
The most comprehensive Holocaust documentation in the history of German radio is what Stefan Fischer calls the BR audio edition in the Süddeutsche Zeitung .
“The two actors Matthias Brandt and Bibiana Beglau read the majority of the documents in the first season, whereby they neglect one thing: to act. The director Ulrich Gerhardt has reduced her lectures to a sober tone that is as free of emotions as possible. Some of the victim documents are read by contemporary witnesses, surviving Jews, including Anita Lasker-Wallfisch , Ruth Klüger , Max Mannheimer , Ari Rath , Marcel Reich-Ranicki . (...) The impact of these recordings, those of the actors as well as those of the contemporary witnesses, is enormous. This is not just due to the content, but to this direct form of transmission. In addition, the chronological order of the documents allows an idea of the contemporary perception of the events. "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ BR press release on the 2016 audio book award
- ↑ Stefan Fischer: The force of history. In: sueddeutsche.de . January 24, 2013, accessed October 13, 2018 .