Voices of the poets
Voices of the poets , sometimes also the voice of the poets , initially advertised simply as poetry readings, was a series of spoken recordings made by the Christophorus Verlag in Freiburg im Breisgau, part of Herder's bookstore, in the 1950s .
concept
The series, whose concept “Contemporary poets and writers read from their own works” was as simple as it was ingenious, took shape in the second half of the decade.
Thus, the voice of the poets came on the market at a similarly early stage as the literary archive of the Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft , which began publishing literary sound carriers in series in 1957, with an extensive, commercial literary record series.
speaker
The first record in the series was discussed by the then well-known German narrator, playwright and poet Reinhold Schneider with Hot Springs , the childhood memories from his self-portrayal, Wrapped Day (1954). Four of his sonnets (1955) and his essay Friede der Welt (1956) were also heard .
Other writers who discussed a record with texts from their work exclusively for the series were Stefan Andres , Georg Britting , Carl Jacob Burckhardt , Hans Carossa , Peter Dörfler , Curt Elwenspoek , Marie Hamsun , Wilhelm Hausenstein , Manfred Hausmann , Ernst Heimeran , Bernt von Heiseler , Annette Kolb , Gertrud von Le Fort , Johannes B. Lotz , Zenta Maurina , Karl Benno von Mechow , Eckart Peterich , Reinhold Schneider , Rudolf Alexander Schröder , Ina Seidel and Carl Zuckmayer .
Werner Bergengruen , Martin Buber , Rudolf Hagelstange , Sigismund von Radecki - who once also performed his literary translations of Gogol and Chekhov , Luise Rinser , Edzard Schaper and Karl Heinrich Waggerl - contested two or more editions of the poets' voices . The latter two - already busy speakers for radio and record - were around half a dozen publications for Christophorus alone .
effect
The series received a lot of attention among literary scholars. At the beginning of the 1960s, a large German literary lexicon listed the records, especially from this series, as a novelty in separate sections for the author's articles.