Serotonin (radio play maker)

Serotonin is the name of a Berlin author and radio play producer duo and consists of Marie-Luise Goerke and Matthias Pusch. The duo was founded in Berlin in 2002 .

The authors and radio playmakers

Marie-Luise Goerke is a Japanologist and Germanist and studied at the Free University of Berlin and at Kyoto University in Japan. She works for public broadcasters and for audio book publishers as an author and (radio play) director. Together with Matthias Pusch she has been designing and realizing acoustic art under the name Serotonin since 2002.

Matthias Pusch is a qualified robotics engineer and studied at the Technical University of Berlin and Tokyo University in Japan. He has been working as a director , producer and musician together with Marie-Luise Goerke since 2002 under the name Serotonin.

Origin and production method

Goerke and Pusch have been performing under the name Serotonin since 2002 . Together they write and produce acoustic art, radio features , radio plays, audio books and fiction. In an interview with ARD, they explained that the intention is not to actually separate the individual areas of material development, script, direction, music and production in order to achieve the production method that is characteristic of them. The same name as the happiness hormone serotonin is intended.

Her radio play Failure for Advanced Students (WDR, 2005) deals with the topic of “failure” on several levels. The protagonist Fenner delves into his only talent: failure. He decides to make something out of it and founds an “Academy of Failure”. On further narrative levels, this fictional main storyline is collaged with original sounds and real interviews on the subject of "failure". This montage of fictional and non-fictional material is characteristic of serotonin audio works. The radio play was awarded the 2nd prize at the Prix Hörverlag 2006.

Serotonin often mix the fictional with the factual in their artistic work, which they called the “texture of reality” in a radio conversation at the Bauhaus University Weimar, and create different types of audio pieces in their own studio from their own or other people's texts.

Serotonin has been producing artistic audio guides since 2010 and, since 2016, self-made “acoustic dioramas” for galleries and museums as a form of sound presentation.

In 2015 they published their first historical novel " Das Blausteintuch. A Renaissance Roadmovie" as an eBook and in 2016 as an audio book (unabridged reading by Audible). In their radio feature The Captain Sails to Amazon for the SWR they deal with the production process of their work. In 2018 the second volume " Das Blausteintuch (Volume 2): Die Karte" followed as an eBook and an audio book (unabridged reading at Audible).

Productions

Original radio plays

2004 Bend over! Or: The simulation syndrome with Julia Hummer and others, WDR
2005 failure for advanced students, WDR
2006 He and I, WDR
2007 Monitoring and Dunning, WDR
2009 Workingclass Hero, SWR
2009 Small shops. Or: Reversal of the situation, WDR
2009 Child madness and the Bugaboo War in Prenzlauer Berg, SWR
2010 Beer and Education, SWR
2011 Buddenbroichs. Or: The fear of the middle class of relegation, WDR
2013 Things that urgently need to be changed, SWR
2018 Die Van Berg-Konstante , original radio play in 3 parts, WDR
2019 The Shift , mystery thriller series in 2 seasons / 20 episodes, SWR and independent podcast

Radio features

2004 number 1295 or: How do I become a star? SWR
2006 The Sisak case , RBB / WDR
2007 Gymnastics and Electricity , SWR
2011 Homeless - Tokyo's digital day laborers , WDR, SWR, DLR culture
2015 The captain sails to Amazon , SWR
2017 The Invention of Discovery (feature radio play) , Deutschlandfunk Kultur

Installations

2011 The Walk-In Archive , Kölnischer Kunstverein on behalf of the Federal Culture Foundation
2014/15 storylines. Audio Guide Special , Humboldt Lab Dahlem in the Ethnological Museum Berlin
2015/16 radio play audio guide for young teenagers , picture gallery Potsdam Sanssouci
2016 Parcours dans la mer de ciel. Five acoustic dioramas in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Kulturstiftung des Bundes
2019 Tastes like home . An acoustic diorama plus website, Schönhausen Palace Berlin and European Cultural Heritage Year (ECHY) 2019

Audiobooks (selection)

2005 A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby with Julia Hummer, Hille Darjes and others, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 3-89940-592-7
2007 failure for advanced students. Radio play about serotonin. The Audio Verlag, ISBN 978-3-89813-629-7
2010 I'm enough, Union of Social Institutions , self-published
2011 The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley, read by Simone Kabst, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-86717-953-9
2012 The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss , read by Stefan Kaminski, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-86717-357-5
2012 The Fear of the Wise Part 1 by Patrick Rothfuss , read by Stefan Kaminski, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-86717-961-4
2013 The Fear of the Wise Part 2 by Patrick Rothfuss , read by Stefan Kaminski, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-86717-994-2
2013 Der Schwarm by Frank Schätzing , read by Stefan Kaminski, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-8445-1109-3
2014 Mystic River by Dennis Lehane , read by Stefan Kaminski, Diogenes Verlag, ISBN 978-3-257-80352-5
2014 to 2019 The Seven Sisters (Volume 1 to Volume 6) by Lucinda Riley, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-8445-2111-5 , ISBN 978-3-8445-2533-5 , ISBN 978-3-8445-2313 -3 , ISBN 978-3-8445-2813-8 , ISBN 978-3-8445-3186-2 , ISBN 978-3-8445-3727-7
2016 The Lemon Sisters by Valentina Cebeni, read by Simone Kabst, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-8445-2323-2
2016 The bluestone cloth. A renaissance road movie about Serotonin, read by Stefan Kaminski, Audible GmbH
2017 The Kallmann case by Håkan Nesser, read by Dietmar Bär, Oliver Brod, Sinja Dieks, Robert Frank, Simone Kabst, Oliver Siebeck, Britta Steffenhagen, Der Hörverlag, ISBN 978-3-8445-2831-2
2018 The Bluestone Cloth (Volume 2): The Serotonin Map , read by Stefan Kaminski, Audible GmbH

Awards

2006 Prix Hörverlag (2nd place) for failure for advanced students

Web links

Report on the first Prix Hörverlag
Serotonin in the audio game database
Project Storylines Audioguide Special Humboldt-Lab
Serotonin website
KunstNatur Natural History Museum Berlin
Website for the series of novels by Serotonin Das Blausteintuch

Individual evidence

↑ 23.5. Texture of Reality: A Radio Conversation with Serotonin . ( uni-weimar.de [accessed on February 7, 2018]).
↑ wemove digital solutions: Heimspiel 2011 - The Walk-In Archive. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
^ Project archive - Humboldt Forum. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
↑ Serotonin | Art / nature. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
↑ The picture occupies the eye, the sound clears it. - Interventions in the Museum of Natural History . In: art-in-berlin.de . ( art-in-berlin.de [accessed on February 7, 2018]).
^ Federal Cultural Foundation - Art / Nature. Artistic interventions in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .
↑ Interventions and Artists | Art / nature. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .

[1] 23.5. Texture of Reality: A Radio Conversation with Serotonin . ( uni-weimar.de [accessed on February 7, 2018]).

[2] wemove digital solutions: Heimspiel 2011 - The Walk-In Archive. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .

[3] Project archive - Humboldt Forum. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .

[4] Serotonin | Art / nature. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .

[5] The picture occupies the eye, the sound clears it. - Interventions in the Museum of Natural History . In: art-in-berlin.de . ( art-in-berlin.de [accessed on February 7, 2018]).

[6] Federal Cultural Foundation - Art / Nature. Artistic interventions in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .

[7] Interventions and Artists | Art / nature. Retrieved February 7, 2018 .