Summer's world literature to go
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| YouTube channel (education / entertainment) | |
| language | German |
| founding | January 1, 2015 |
| Subscribers | over 100,000 |
| Calls | over 13,600,000 |
| Videos | over 350 |
| (updated Feb. 21, 2020) | |
Sommers Weltliteratur to go is a YouTube channel on which selected works of literature are reproduced with Playmobil figures in videos of around ten minutes. Michael Sommer has been running the channel since January 2015 and has already filmed over 300 world literature titles . In addition to the YouTube channel, there is also a website that provides information and a full list of the videos available. In 2018 the channel received the Grimme Online Award .
Origin of the canal
In the autumn of 2013, Sommer was confronted with the task of summarizing the play in a short and entertaining way as a dramaturge for the staging of the play Dantons Tod at Theater Ulm . This resulted in an improvised performance that was recorded on video and published on the video portal YouTube. This video received several thousand views in a year and a half, which is why Michael Sommer decided in January 2015 to continue this format as a video series.
Creation of the videos
At the beginning of the project Michael Sommer produced the videos on your home kitchen table, since September 2019 he has an office in Munich district Pasing . A new video appears on the YouTube channel every week, usually on Mondays. The selection of the works takes place partly through audience votes. In addition, works are selected from the publisher's program in coordination with the cooperation partner Reclam . In addition, Sommer's own preferences and interests also flow into the selection process.
Summer's world literature on air
Sommers Weltliteratur On Air (short form: SWOA) is a live broadcast streamed via YouTube in which Michael Sommer talks about a selected author and his literary epoch . This program is made up of fixed elements, such as the premiere at which a new video appears, the SWOA quiz, in which viewers are asked to guess syllables and put them together to form a solution, or “Watson's favorite poetry”, where a Poem from the thematic literary epoch is read aloud. This format is streamed live on the first Monday of the month at 7:00 p.m.
Cooperation partner
Sommer's world literature to go is an independent channel. There is a cooperation with the Reclam publishing house , which supports summer's world literature to go financially and in terms of content. The videos with the Reclam opening credits are proofread by the publisher before they are published. In addition, the canal cooperates on individual projects with various clients, such as the Günter Grass House or the International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg . There is no cooperation with the toy manufacturer Playmobil .
Book "Are you going to Goethe!"
In September 2018 Michael Sommer's book Gehst du Goethe! - Speed Dating with German classics in the S. Fischer Verlag . Ten classics of German literature are summarized in words and pictures. The presentation in the book is based heavily on the respective video from Sommer's world literature to go. Referring to the book, Michael Sommer also offers the event “Do you go Goethe live”, in which he performs the abstracts of the works on stage and in interaction with the audience.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Prize Winner - Grimme Online Award. In: grimme-online-award.de. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Melanie Mühl: Weltliteratur on Youtube: Without a video, my high school diploma would be ruined . In: FAZ.NET . ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed February 21, 2020]).
- ↑ Richard Mayr: He plays literary classics with Playmobil figures. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. November 29, 2018, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Florian J. Haamann: Youtube hit from Munich: Goethe's Faust in nine minutes. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. June 1, 2018, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Georg Gruber: Michael Sommers "Weltliteratur to go" - Effi Briest and Othello as Playmo-Clip. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de. August 21, 2018, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Sommer: Referendum! In: Sommers Artworks. September 8, 2019, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Michael Sommer: What is world literature? In: Sommers Artworks. June 26, 2017, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Ulrike Stegemann: Hamlet homemade . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 26, 2018, ISSN 0931-9085 , p. 24 ( taz.de [accessed on February 21, 2020]).
- ↑ Mini-dramas on the kitchen table. In: donaukurier.de. December 16, 2016, accessed February 21, 2020 .
- ^ Grass, Kehlmann and the world of the baroque. Günter Grass-Haus - The Lübeck Museums, accessed on February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ Are you going to Goethe? Reading Foundation, accessed on February 21, 2020 .
- ↑ World literature with the Playmobil ensemble. In: donaukurier.de. July 4, 2019, accessed February 21, 2020 .