Speech plate
As intercom panels , short for voice records , originally shellac - or vinyl - records - now rarely, Audio CDs - designated containing mainly verbal contributions of any kind.
history
At times more used as a verbal sound carrier for the blind, the literary speech record is a forerunner of today's audio book . The invention of the long-playing record meant enormous progress for the literary speech record, as it enabled longer literary texts, such as a record version of Faust I in the staging by Gustaf Gründgens , which in 1954 came as a surprise to the Deutsche Grammophon-Gesellschaft became a best seller, easy to bring out on a few record pages. Previously, it was customary for the commercially produced speaking record to be limited to reciting individual poems, monologues or scenes, essentially for the purpose of documenting outstanding speaking voices in the theater, such as Alexander Moissi , Josef Kainz or Albert Bassermann . In contrast to this, long texts up to the reading of a novel were produced on more than 40 shellac records for the library for the blind even before the LP was developed. Outstanding performers of the long-playing literary speech plate were later actors like Gert Westphal, Mathias Wieman , Will Quadflieg , Oskar Werner , Helmut Qualtinger or Klaus Kinski , but also writers such as Thomas Mann , Carl Zuckmayer , Erich Kastner , Eugen Roth , Siegfried Lenz and Günter Grass proven on phonograph records as excellent speakers of their own works.
Rows of literary speech plates
The first stand-alone series of literary speech plates, which have established themselves since the 50s, were the on Ernst Ginsberg declining today continued " Literary Archives " in German Grammophon , the voices of the poets of the Herder publishing house , Telefunken " word and voice ," Cotta's sound stage and the “Lebendiges Wort” brand from the Austrian record company Preiser Records .
Appearing word productions are to a large extent productions of the record companies, but also many first as a radio program produced readings or radio plays out to talk plates secondary exploitation. Book publishers are also less likely to issue speech plates (primarily with authors' voices) as a supplement to their printed program, sometimes as free promotional items .
More genres
In addition to the literary voice record, important genres are fairytale records and documentary voice records with voice recordings from politics and contemporary history. There was frequent demand for fairy tale and radio play records for children, but also cabaret and joke records , for example by Heinz Erhardt , Jürgen von Manger or Otto Waalkes , who repeatedly received gold records for their speech records .
Even help in life (e.g. on the Seelephonie label Oscar Schellbach ), health information and advice (e.g. Distar ) and language courses have always been categories of the speech record.
End of the speech plate
In contrast to the music sound carrier sector, vinyl record production in the word sector, which had already been cut back noticeably since the introduction of the compact cassette , was completely discontinued after the introduction of the audio CD.
Recurrence of the speech record for anniversary and special publications
Years later (for the first time in 2001), special publications (examples are the anniversary episodes of the radio play series John Sinclair and The Three Question Marks ) appear on the market at regular intervals. There are also re-releases from the fairy tale record area on vinyl-look CDs. With the release of The Hobbit. The radio play by Hörverlag on seven long-playing records in 2013 was finally released for the first time in a classic audio book box from an audio book publisher as a vinyl edition. The following year, a complete reading with music by the Little Prince from archive recordings of a reading by Ulrich Mühe, who had already passed away, and parts newly recorded by his daughter Anna Maria Mühe , appeared exclusively on phonograph records .
At the end of 2016, BMG announced that all future episodes of The Three Question Marks would be released on vinyl again after more than 35 years.
literature
- Arnold Littmann: The German speech plates. A critical bibliography. Hueber, Munich 1963.
- Helm Hartmann: Speech plates catalog. Complete list of literature and special records. Bielefelder Verlagsanstalt, Bielefeld 1965/1966 and 1968/1969.
