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Sophie Scholl - Ein Leben (Feature) Audiobook

Dass selbst in den dunkelsten Tagen der deutschen Geschichte immer noch ein kleiner Hoffnungsschimmer sichtbar war, verdanken wir Menschen wie Sophie Scholl. Als junges Mädchen noch im Bund Deutscher Mädel organisiert, erkannte sie bald, wie menschenverachtend das nationalsozialistische Regime war. Im Juni 1942 gründete sich in München die studentische Widerstandsgruppe Weiße Rose, der sich Hans Scholl und auch Sophie anschlossen. Nach mehreren Aktionen wurden die beiden Geschwister am 18. Februar 1943 entdeckt, verhaftet und bereits vier Tage später hingerichtet. Dem kurzen Leben dieser aufrechten jungen Frau geht diese bewegende Hörbiografie mit Original-Tonaufnahmen nach.

Hermann Vinke (Author), Alexander Khuon, Julia Jentsch, Martin Engler, Matthias Ponnier (Narrator)

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Oscar Wilde - Ein Leben (Feature)

Mit 'Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray' verfasste er einen der Schlüsselromane des 20. Jahrhunderts, seine Märchen sind von einer einzigartigen Schönheit und seine Komödien sprühen vor Witz: Oscar Wilde ist eine der schillernsten Figuren der englischen Literaturgeschichte überhaupt. Die geistreichen Bonmots des Konversationsgenies sind noch heute in aller Munde. Mit seiner extravaganten Kleidung und seinen Selbstinszenierungen machte sich der Prototyp des Dandys selbst zu einer Kunstfigur, zu einer Art frühem Popstar. Vom turbulenten Aufstieg und tragischen Fall einer rätselhaften und faszinierenden Persönlichkeit berichtet diese ebenso rasante wie einfühlsame Hörbiografie.

Hannelore Hippe (Author), Frank Arnorld, Hans Peter Hallwachs, Markus Hoffmann, Michael Rotschopf (Narrator)

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Heroines of Mercy Street

A look at the lives of the real nurses depicted in the PBS show Mercy Street HEROINES OF MERCY STREET tells the true stories of the nurses at Mansion House, the Alexandria, Virginia, mansion turned war-time hospital and setting for the new PBS drama Mercy Street. Among the Union soldiers, doctors, wounded men from both sides, freed slaves, politicians, speculators, and spies who passed through the hospital in the crossroads of the Civil War, were nurses who gave their time freely and willingly to save lives and aid the wounded. These women saw casualties on a scale Americans had never seen before, and medicine was at a turning point. HEROINES OF MERCY STREET follows the lives of women like Dorothea Dix, Mary Phinney, Anne Reading, and more before, during, and after their epic struggle in Alexandria and reveals their personal contributions to this astounding period in the advancement of medicine.

Pamela D. Toler Phd (Author), Suzanne Toren (Narrator)

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Stir: My Broken Brain and the Meals That Brought Me Home

At twenty-eight, Jessica Fechtor was happily immersed in graduate school and her young marriage, and thinking about starting a family. Then one day, she went for a run and an aneurysm burst in her brain. She nearly died. She lost her sense of smell, the sight in her left eye, and was forced to the sidelines of the life she loved. Jessica's journey to recovery began in the kitchen as soon as she was able to stand at the stovetop and stir. There, she drew strength from the restorative power of cooking and baking. Written with intelligence, humor, and warmth, Stir is a heartfelt examination of what it means to nourish and be nourished.

Jessica Fechtor (Author), Fechtor Jessica (Narrator)

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Ringo: With a Little Help

Ringo: With a Little Help is the first in-depth biography of Beatles drummer Ringo Starr, who kept the beat for an entire generation and who remains a rock icon since the Beatles took the world by storm over fifty years ago. This book traces the entire arc of Ringo's remarkable life and career, from his sickly childhood to his life as the world's most famous drummer to his triumphs, addictions, and emotional battles following the breakup of the Beatles. Born in 1940 as Richard Starkey in the Dingle, one of Liverpool's most gritty, rough-and-tumble neighborhoods, he rose from a hardscrabble childhood marked by serious illnesses, long hospital stays, and little schooling to emerge, against all odds, as a locally renowned drummer. Taking the stage name Ringo Starr, his big break with the Beatles rocketed him to the pinnacle of worldwide acclaim in a remarkably short time. He was the last member of the Beatles to join the group but also the most vulnerable, and his post-Beatles career was marked by chart-topping successes, a jet-setting life of excess and alcohol abuse, and, ultimately, his rebirth as one of rock's revered elder statesmen.

Michael Seth Starr (Author), Peter Berkrot (Narrator)

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Master of Ceremonies: A Memoir

Joel Grey, the Tony and Academy Award-winning Master of Ceremonies in Cabaret finally tells his remarkable life story. Born Joel David Katz to a wild and wooly Jewish American family in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932, Joel began his life in the theater at the age of 9, starting in children’s theater and then moving to the main stage. He was hooked, and his seven decades long career charts the evolution of American entertainment - from Vaudeville performances with his father, Mickey Katz to the seedy gangster filled nightclubs of the forties, the bright lights of Broadway and dizzying glamour of Hollywood, to juggernaut musicals like Cabaret, Chicago, and Wicked. Master of Ceremonies is a memoir of a life lived in and out of the limelight, but it is also the story of the man behind the stage makeup. Coming of age in a time when being yourself tended to be not only difficult but also dangerous, Joel has to act both on and off the stage. He spends his high school years sleeping with the girls-next-door while carrying on a scandalous affair with an older man. Romances with to-die-for Vegas Showgirls are balanced with late night liaisons with like-minded guys, until finally Joel falls in love and marries a talented and beautiful woman, starts a family, and has a pretty much picture perfect life. But 24 years later when the marriage dissolves, Joel has to once again find his place in a world that has radically changed. Drawing back the curtain on a career filled with show-stopping numbers, larger-than-life stars and even singing in the shower with Bjork, Master of Ceremonies is also a portrait of an artist coming to terms with his evolving identity. When an actor plays a character, he has to find out what makes them who they are; their needs, dreams, and fears. It’s a difficult thing to do, but sometimes the hardest role in an actor’s life is that of himself. Deftly capturing the joy of performing as well as the pain and secrets of an era we have only just started to leave behind, Joel’s story is one of love, loss, hard-won honesty, redemption, and success.

Joel Grey (Author), Joel Grey (Narrator)

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Die hohe Kunst der Unterhaltung (Feature)

Sir Peter Ustinov ist unvergessen. Der Mann, der so vieles war: Schauspieler von Weltrang, weitgereister Erdenbürger, Kulturmensch, scharfsinniger Feingeist und ironie-begabter Humorist. Dieses Hörbuch ist eine Hommage an den Altmeister so vieler Disziplinen. Wir lauschen gebannt seinem Vortrag 'Die Hohe Kunst der Unterhaltung', bei dem er uns aus ganzem Herzen lachen lässt. Wir feiern noch einmal seinen letzten runden Geburtstag in dem Feature 'Ein Multitalent wird 80'und erfahren noch mehr Hintergründe in dem Beitrag 'Sir Peter Ustinov: Schauspieler und Multitalent'. Die wunderbaren Aufnahmen des SWR leben vom Charme und Witz Ustinovs, der in der Rede und vielen O-Tönen zur Geltung kommt. Ein Hörbuch mit hohem Unterhaltungswert und viel Arbeit für die Lachmuskeln.

Sir Peter Ustinov (Author), Sir Peter Ustinov (Narrator)

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The Lovers: Afghanistan's Romeo and Juliet, the True Story of How They Defied Their Families and Esc

A riveting, real-life equivalent of The Kite Runner-an astonishingly powerful and profoundly moving story of a young couple willing to risk everything for love that puts a human face on the ongoing debate about women's rights in the Muslim world. Zakia and Ali were from different tribes, but they grew up on neighboring farms in the hinterlands of Afghanistan. By the time they were young teenagers, Zakia, strikingly beautiful and fiercely opinionated, and Ali, shy and tender, had fallen in love. Defying their families, sectarian differences, cultural conventions, and Afghan civil and Islamic law, they ran away together only to live under constant threat from Zakia's large and vengeful family, who have vowed to kill her to restore the family's honor. They are still in hiding. Despite a decade of American good intentions, women in Afghanistan are still subjected to some of the worst human rights violations in the world. Rod Nordland, then the Kabul bureau chief of the New York Times, had watched these abuses unfold for years when he came upon Zakia and Ali, and has not only chronicled their plight, but has also shepherded them from danger. The Lovers will do for women's rights generally what Malala's story did for women's education. It is an astonishing story about self-determination and the meaning of love that illustrates, as no policy book could, the limits of Western influence on fundamentalist Islamic culture and, at the same time, the need for change.

Rod Nordland (Author), Peter Ganim (Narrator)

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White Walls: A Memoir About Motherhood, Daughterhood, and the Mess in Between

A memoir of mothers and daughters, hoarding, and healing. Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras, printers, VHS tapes, ballpoint pens . obsessively gathered and stored by her hoarder mother. The first chance she had, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity-one made of order, regimen, and clean white walls. Until, one day, she found herself enmeshed in life's biggest chaos: motherhood. Confronted with the daunting task of raising a daughter after her own dysfunctional childhood, Judy reflected on not only her own upbringing but the lives of her mother and grandmother, Jewish Polish immigrants who had escaped the Holocaust. What she discovered astonished her. The women in her family, despite their differences, were even more closely connected than she ever knew-from her grandmother Zelda to her daughter of the same name. And, despite the hardships of her own mother-daughter relationship, it was that bond that was slowly healing her old wounds. Told with heartbreaking honesty and humor, this is Judy's poignant account of her trials negotiating the messiness of motherhood and the indelible marks that mothers and daughters make on each other's lives.

Judy Batalion (Author), Rachel Botchan (Narrator)

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Poor Your Soul

Poor Your Soul-moving, wise, and passionately written-is a beautiful reflection on sexuality, free will, and the fierce bonds of family. At twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she embraced the idea of starting a family and became engaged to Andrew, the father. Five months later, an ultrasound revealed that her child would be born with a constellation of birth defects and no chance of survival outside the womb. Mira was given three options: terminate the pregnancy, induce early delivery, or wait and inevitably miscarry. Mira's story is paired with that of her mother, who emigrated from Poland to the United States, and who also experienced grievous loss when her only son was killed by a drunk driver. These deftly interwoven stories offer a picture of mother and daughter finding strength in themselves and each other in the face of tragedy.

Mira Ptacin (Author), Kyra Miller (Narrator)

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The Last Act of Love

In the summer of 1990, Cathy's brother Matty was knocked down by a car on the way home from a night out, two weeks before receiving his GCSE results. Sitting by his unconscious body in hospital, holding his hand and watching his heartbeat on the monitors, Cathy and her parents willed him to survive. They did not know then that there are many fates worse than death.

Cathy Rentzenbrink (Author), Jenny Funnell (Narrator)

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Statsminister Özz Nûjen

Özz Nûjen är en av Sveriges största standup-komiker som varken räds att skämta om svenska vapenexporter eller pressa Norges förra statsminister Jens Stoltenberg om rasismen i vårt grannland. Statsminister Özz Nûjen är en politisk standup-föreställning som inför supervalåret 2014 granskade makten med lika mycket humor som allvar. Som Özz själv säger: "Politik är alldeles för viktigt för att läggas i händerna på politiker"

özz Nûjen (Author), özz Nûjen (Narrator)

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