Recording studio Braun

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The Braun Tonstudio is a German company based in Wiesbaden.

Company history

The Braun recording studio was founded in Wiesbaden in 1965 by engineer Max Karl Braun. However, operations began before 1965 with the Max K. Braun film production company , which carried out sound engineering services for film, radio and television. In the early years, the newsreel reports were recorded in the Braun recording studio and the word recordings mixed with the images.

For two decades, the Mainzelmännchen , the ZDF mascots , were set to music in the Braun house. Wolf Gerlach , inventor of the Mainzelmännchen, worked closely with the recording studio. The children of the Braun family, Matthias, Heidi-Charlotte, Oliver and Michael, gave the Mainzel males their voices, the characteristic “ Guuud'n Aaabend ” was spoken by Wolf Gerlach personally.

Other well-known personalities such as Elmar Gunsch or the detergent figure Clementine also worked with the Braun recording studio.

Over the years the company name has changed several times, until it was finally consolidated at Tonstudio Braun GmbH & Co. KG and today bears this name.

The recording studio is particularly well-known for setting bastion series to music such as ghost hunter John Sinclair and Vanessa the ghost's friend . The recording studio's horror radio plays competed with those of the European label , especially in the 1980s, on the fantastic radio play market , although the main business at that time was primarily on cassettes and less on records . Although the radio plays in Europe were technically more complex and had both more prominent speakers and a larger budget, the tapes from the Braun recording studio also found a large number of fans. Criticized by some for the simple presentation and the simplest home organ music , other listeners found themselves in the adult -looking stories of the Braun studio.

The John Sinclair series earned the company an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for having produced 107 episodes within ten years .

In the mid-1990s , the market for radio plays collapsed due to a shift in interests in the direction of the Internet and computer games, and has only recovered since the increasing spread of audio books . The Braun recording studio continued to sell radio plays, now also on CD , these were now primarily designed for the children's and youth market.

After losing a lawsuit with Bastei Verlag, the company had to stop producing new episodes of the John Sinclair series. 107 radio plays were produced. An attempt was made to counteract the loss of the popular license with the self-produced horror series Larry Maccloud - The Fighter Against the Unbelievable . The new series has the same speakers and the cover design is also based heavily on the old John Sinclair series. So far, 25 radio plays have been produced.

No sound recordings have been made in the recording studio since 2005 due to weather damage. In 2008 most of the studio technology was sold. Talks with an external sales partner in 2010 regarding the continuation of the series John Sinclair , Jerry Cotton , Vanessa and Conny were initially successful, but failed due to the high license fee demands of the owner of the text and name rights. In September 2015, Bastei Lübbe AG announced the official comeback of all 107 John Sinclair episodes produced by Tonstudio Braun in a digitally revised version on CD.

Series

among others

Others

  • Between 2000 and 2003, the recording studio of the local indie band Revolver was used as a rehearsal room.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BILD newspaper (December 29, 2000), Pilar May
  2. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tonstudio-braun.de
  3. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.tonstudio-braun.de
  4. ^ The cult comeback of the Braun recording studio. www.luebbe.de, October 29, 2015, accessed December 6, 2016 .