Supposé

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supposé
legal form one-man business
founding 1996
Seat 1996-2007 Cologne

2007–2017 Berlin

since 2017 Wyk auf Föhr

management Klaus Sander
Branch Audio publisher
Website www.suppose.de

Supposé ( proper spelling supposé ) is an independent German publishing house for audio publications based in Wyk auf Föhr . It was founded in 1996 by Klaus Sander in Cologne and has been run by him ever since.

History and program

The publisher's name goes back to a phrase of the philosopher Vilém Flusser , who opened many of his lectures with “supposé que” (French), “suppose that” (English) or “assumed that” (German). Klaus Sander heard Flusser during his studies and worked on his estate after his accidental death. Together with the widow Edith Flusser and others, he set up the Vilém Flusser Archive in The Hague , which is now located at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Sander was fascinated by Flusser's way of speaking freely and wanted to capture this for a new generation. So he founded a publishing house for the publication of Flusser's last preserved sound document and called it supposé.

According to his own statements, this made him suddenly aware “that there are people who prefer to express themselves orally rather than in writing”, and he found numerous examples of this, especially in the world of natural sciences. However, since spoken language functions differently than written language, it also requires a different, appropriate form. Accordingly, the programmatic approach of the publisher is “the development and establishment of an independent form of art and publication for the spoken word and the oral story”.

At the beginning of the activity the edition of historical original sound recordings from the fields of science, philosophy, literature and art was in the foreground. Soon, own productions with contemporary researchers and thinkers were added, which since then have been the focus of the program.

The historical editions with collected audio documents include the voices of numerous great research personalities such as Albert Einstein , Max Planck , Erwin Schrödinger , Lise Meitner , Werner Heisenberg , Max Delbrück , Konrad Lorenz or Karl von Frisch , but also philosophers and writers such as Vilém Flusser , Paul Feyerabend , Gotthard Günther , René König , Gershom Scholem , EM Cioran , Konrad Bayer or Hubert Fichte , as well as the composer Arnold Schönberg .

The real hallmarks of supposé are the audio narratives that were created without a text template or manuscript. These are based on interviews and discussions that Klaus Sander conducts alone or together with co-directors and which are then cut together to create coherent narratives. The producers' questions and contributions to conversations cannot be heard in the final versions. The narrators mostly report on the history and fascination of their subject area, their own research, but also on their lives and everyday (research) life. They are always designed as portraits of the protagonists.

According to this process, productions with the chaos researcher Otto E. Rössler , the brain researcher Wolf Singer , the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum , the ornithologist Peter Berthold , the literary scientist Friedrich Kittler , the linguistic psychologist Ernst von Glasersfeld , the bionic scientist Werner Nachtigall , the quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger , the political scientist Gesine Schwan , the science historian Ernst Peter Fischer , the immunologist Stefan HE Kaufmann , the neurophysiologist Hanns Hatt , the bee researcher Jürgen Tautz , the climate researcher Mojib Latif , the evolutionary biologist Axel Meyer , the virologist Karin Mölling , the neuropsychologist Hinderk M. Emrich , the Cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen , the fire ecologist Johann Georg Goldammer, the resistance fighter Käthe Sasso , the memory researchers Aleida and Jan Assmann , the Scandinavians Klaus von See , Julia Zernack, Arnulf Krause and Heiko Uecker , the cave researchers Stephan Kempe, Herbe rt W. Franke and Andreas Pflitsch, the developmental biologist Walter J. Gehring , the paleoanthropologist Friedemann Schrenk , the viticulture researcher Hans Reiner Schultz , the linguist Ernst Kausen , the philosopher Dieter Henrich , the writer Thomas Hürlimann , the extreme swimmer André Wiersig and many others.

In the general reception, supposé's publications are mostly referred to as "audio books". The publisher himself dispenses with this term and instead speaks of "audio editions", "stories" or "audio portraits". In terms of method, Klaus Sander sees his production process more closely related to the documentary than to the audio book .

In March 2004, within a few days, supposé was awarded the German Audiobook Prize and the Kurt Wolff Foundation Prize. The awarding of the German Audiobook Prize took place in the category “The Special Audiobook”, which was awarded for the first time, for the entire program. Laudator Fritz Pleitgen described the edition as "an acoustic library of modern thought".

The then State Minister for Culture Christina Weiss emphasized in her laudation at the awarding of the Kurt Wolff Prize “the erotic component” of the authentic voices: “You hear people talking about their own interests and not just as the more or less skilled reproducers who are already there Texts. "

At the latest with the 4-CD box A Summer That Remains , on which the writer Peter Kurzck tells the village of his childhood, published in 2007, Klaus Sander has also applied his free narrative production process, which was largely developed with scientists and philosophers, to literature. The result, according to the publisher, is "a novel that only exists in acoustic form". This publication generated immense press coverage. For example, the literary critic Hubert Winkels spoke in the weekly newspaper Die Zeit of a “literary historical event” and the “birth of a new genre”, his colleague Denis Scheck of “one of the most exciting literary projects of the present”. Other journalists saw in A Summer That Remains “the first audio book in the real sense” ( Stern ), the “milestone in the still young history of the audio book” (rbb radio eins) or “a fascinating total work of art” ( Der Spiegel ). In January 2009, the production was named "Audiobook of the Year 2008" by the hr2 audio book best list.

In 2008, the magazine Cicero selected the one-man company in its list of the 20 most important publishers in Germany. In the same year the production What to do against cancer? with the cancer researcher Harald zur Hausen , who a few weeks later was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine. Supposé succeeded in doing this again a year later: The production The Night is Made of Ink with the writer Herta Müller was also published just a few weeks before the announcement of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

The 2014 CD Ans Ende was also named “Audiobook of the Year” , whereupon the Cologne writer Dieter Wellershoff (88 years old at the time of the recording) reflects on aging and dying from a conversation with Thomas Böhm and Klaus Sander tells.

In October 2019, supposé was awarded the German Publishing Prize, which was awarded for the first time. On May 18, 2020, Minister of State for Culture Monika Grütters announced that supposé was also one of the winners of the German Publishing Prize 2020.

Awards (selection)

  • 2004: German Audio Book Prize
  • 2004: Prize of the Kurt Wolff Foundation
  • 2009: Audiobook of the year 2008 ( A summer that stays )
  • 2015: Audiobook of the year 2014 ( coming to an end )
  • 2019: German Publishing Prize
  • 2020: German Publishing Award

Exhibitions

  • supposé and friends. [sonic] square # 3 , Kaaitheaterstudio's, Brussels, February / March 2002
  • Ritter / Zamet invites supposé . London, Gallery Ritter / Zamet, 8 September to 1 October 2005

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ act: bookmaker - explain the bee to me. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  2. ↑ House of World Cultures: How does knowledge come into the world? April 25, 2016, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Tell universes. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Tell universes. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ - Story without end. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
  6. ^ DHP 2004: The German Audio Book Prize. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Laudation by Christina Weiss. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  8. ↑ 4-CD box: A SUMMER THAT REMAINS. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  9. ↑ By Hubert Winkels: Audiobook: Like an eternal moment. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  10. ^ Claudia Voigt: Audiobook of the year: Cold meat sausage for 30 pfennigs . In: Spiegel Online . December 22, 2008 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 10, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Audio book of the year 2008 awarded. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Which book publisher has the greatest reputation? Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Spectrum Nobel Prizes 2008. Accessed October 10, 2019 .
  14. ↑ - The Nobel Prize Winner as a Child. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  15. ↑ BuchMarkt Verlag K. Werner GmbH: hr2: “Ans Ende Come” and “Just 1 Tag” are the audio books of 2014. In: BuchMarkt. November 26, 2014, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  16. ^ The winners - the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  17. ↑ The Prize Winners 2020 - The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Retrieved May 26, 2020 .
  18. ^ Ritter / Zamet: Exhibitions. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Hilmar Schmundt: AUDIO BOOKS: Snapshots for the ears . In: Spiegel Online . tape May 19 , 2005 ( spiegel.de [accessed October 10, 2019]).
  20. ↑ Michael Merschmeier, Der Theaterverlag: Theater heute - Archive. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  21. ↑ act: bookmaker - explain the bee to me. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .
  22. ↑ Gisela Trahms: Portrait: publisher Klaus Sander. In: CulturMag. December 8, 2010, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Gisela Trahms: Portrait: publisher Klaus Sander (2). In: CulturMag. December 15, 2010, accessed October 10, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Tell universes. Retrieved October 10, 2019 .