Audiobook Hamburg

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Audiobook Hamburg

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legal form GmbH
founding 1999
Seat Hamburg
management Johannes Stricker (Management)
Number of employees 15th
Branch media
Website www.hoerbuch-hamburg.de

Audiobook Hamburg is a German audio book publisher based in Hamburg . It was founded in 1999 and is one of the leading audio book publishers in German-speaking countries.

history

The publishing house was founded in 1999 by Margrit Osterwold . Initially all titles appeared under the name Audiobook Hamburg , the program is now divided into three labels: the adult programs Audiobook Hamburg , OSTERWOLD audio and the children's and youth label Silberfisch . The publisher publishes around 170 new publications each year. The focus is on fiction titles.

Under the label Audiobook Hamburg there are publications from almost all genres - from poetry to fiction and life support. Great national and international authors such as Friedrich Ani , Anna Gavalda , John le Carré , Arno Geiger , Yasmina Reza , Tomas Tranströmer , Haruki Murakami , Pascal Mercier , Muriel Barbery , Daniel Glattauer , Max Goldt , Marc-Uwe Kling , Herta Müller , Jo Nesbø , Nele Neuhaus , Eoin Colfer , Louise Hay , Monika Peetz and Doreen Virtue have their homes there.

The children's and youth audiobook label Silberfisch was founded in 2007 under the umbrella of Hörbuch Hamburg. In addition to classics by Jules Verne , Emily Brontë and Michael Ende , current titles by Andreas Steinhöfel , Neil Gaiman , Philip Pullman , Janne Teller , Kristin Cashore , Rick Riordan , Eoin Colfer , Judith Kerr , Rolf Lappert and Nina Blazon , you can also find Pixi audio books , Conni and Max audio plays as well as the Freche Mädchen audio book series have their place in the program. With Stephenie Meyer's Bis (s) series , Silberfisch has so far achieved its greatest success.

Since 2009 productions have also been created under the name OSTERWOLD audio , such as For example, readings by the successful Allgäu duo Volker Klüpfel and Michael Kobr , bestsellers such as Charlotte Roche's lap prayers , award-winning readings such as guilt based on the book by defense attorney Ferdinand von Schirach (read by Burghart Klaußner ) to literary rediscoveries by Hans Fallada , but also classics by Max Frisch and D. H. Lawrence .

In addition to the fiction program, all four labels also publish audio books on topics of current social and political importance. B. the contributions of the former UN diplomat Stéphane Hessel , the reports of the Middle East expert Peter Scholl-Latour and projects such as the soundtrack of Ai Weiwei's internet blog Der Verbotene Blog. Do not have any illusions about me in spring 2012. Staged readings such as EisTau by the author Ilija Trojanow or Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexijewitsch also have their place.

The Osterwold

Between 2004 and 2014, speakers were awarded the Osterwold , a sculpture by the artist Volker März , every year .

Awards

The publisher can now come up with around 800 productions, many of which have received awards such as Peter Simonischek's reading Der Meister des Jüngsten Tages (German Audio Book Prize 2008), Monica Bleibtreu's reading Tannöd by Andrea Maria Schenkel (German Audio Book Prize and Corine 2007) or Andreas Steinhöfel's Rico, Oskar and the Tieferschatten as the best audio book for children and young people in 2008, the annual award on the hr2 audio book best list.

Audiobook Hamburg
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literature

  • Simon Colin: There is still a lot of leeway in the phonogram trade . In: music market . August 2008
  • Interview with Margrit Osterwold . In: HörBücher . September 2007
  • Sharp listening material . In: Börsenblatt . January 11, 2007
  • Katja Engler: Margrit Osterwold gives the audio book industry an Oscar . In: Welt am Sonntag . August 29, 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Osterwold" for audio book enjoyment , Die Welt , queried on November 28, 2009