Audio company
Hörcompany is an independent German audio book publisher with a focus on audio books for children and young people. The publishing house was founded in 2000 by Angelika Schaack and Andrea Herzog. Audiobooks are distributed by the Beltz publishing group . Since its inception, there has been regular participation in the Frankfurt and Leipzig Book Fair. Hörcompany is one of the audio book publishers with the most awards.
program
The approximately 300 audio books produced by the Hörcompany include a. " The Singing War of the Heidehasen " ( James Krüss ), " The Gruffalo " ( Julia Donaldson , Axel Scheffler ) and " Skulduggery Pleasant " ( Derek Landy ).
speaker
The speakers include Rainer Strecker , Jens Wawrczeck , Martin Baltscheit , Peter Lohmeyer , Wolfgang Völz , Rosemarie Fendel , Oliver Rohrbeck and Ilona Schulz .
Awards
- 2001, best list of audiobooks , audiobook for children and young people of the year, you are there and I am here
- 2004, best list of audiobooks , audiobook for children and young people of the year, Despereaux, to unlearn the fear of one who set out
- 2005, German Audio Book Prize , Best Children's Audio Book , When a Leo Asks You the Time
- 2005, audio book best list , children's and youth audio book of the year, Winn-Dixie
- 2006, audio book best list , children's and youth audio book of the year, How beautiful I know
- 2009, audio book best list , children's and youth audio book of the year, Simpel
- 2011, audio book best list , children's and youth audio book of the year, Matti and Sami and the three biggest mistakes in the universe
- 2014, German audio book award , best publishing achievement, world literature for children
- 2015, German Audio Book Prize , Children's and Youth Audio Book of the Year, The Boy Who Swam With the Piranhas
literature
- Sandra Rühr, sound documents from the roller to the audio book, V&R Unipress; 2008. ISBN 978-3899714-73-9
- Gerlinde Freis: The audio book market in German-speaking countries. Structure and economy of a promising branch, Diplomica Verlag GmbH 2008. ISBN 978-3836665-84-1
- Heide Germann, Katja Bergmann, Susanne Brandt, Karen Gröning, Willy Gröning: Sounds for Children and Young People, kopaed, 2005/2006. ISBN 3-938028-78-5
- Börsenblatt special, a matter of taste. Andrea Herzog and Angelika Schaack reveal their secret, February 2010
- Bulletin Youth & Literature, Hart am Wind. Ten years of Hörcompany, August 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Book Market, Ranking for Quality, July 2010
- ↑ HörBücher Magazin, 169 × "very good", January 2009
- ↑ Book Market, Who Has Most Prices, July 2009