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There are people who go straight to the heart. That's exactly the case with actress Annette Frier. Right now, she's doing...
A project participant held a special kind of concert on 28 May. In the Kulturkirche Angelsdorf (NRW) many people of the heart came together,...
The family audiobook team works completely remotely. There are therefore no official offices – instead, we are active nationwide. In order to...
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Here you will find already published reports from and about the family audiobook. To make it easier to find them, they were grouped into subcategories.
For specific press and cooperation inquiries (including panels, lectures, etc.), please contact presse@familienhoerbuch.de.
Research and Science
The family audiobook intervention works – this is demonstrated by independent scientific studies that accompany our work. They show how much the possibility of leaving a biographical audiobook emotionally relieves seriously ill parents, gives children lasting memories and strengthens relatives in dealing with grief. Research is thus a central part of our charitable work – and provides a sound basis for a possible integration of supply into standard care.
The Family Audiobook Movie
For over a year, volunteer filmmakers from Was Gute e.V. accompanied the family audiobook and produced a documentary. ‘Social engagement needs media presence to be effective’, says Marlene Hirschfeld of ‘Was Gute’, an association of volunteer creatives who support and present socially engaged projects with high-quality, short documentaries.
The family audiobook was selected as a social project and portrayed by the Was-Gutes team in a 24-minute documentary. In sensitive scenes, the documentary presents a participant but also survivors, conveys through interviews with an audio biographer and a sound designer the design framework and the recording situation in which participants can speak and influence their work. Convince yourself of this great work – a heartfelt thank you to the Was Gute e.V. team
A song for the family audiobook
Sing, dance, love, stick to each other with confidence, courage and joy and a loving existence for each other. Because these are the memories that stay and carry through the dark days.
A heartfelt thank you to Mario Argandona, sound designer, musician and producer of Argandona Drum World, who wrote and set the ode to life ‘Let the Good Times Shine’ for you and us. Musically accompanied by sound designers from the team: Elisabeth Szwarc, Sitara Schmitz and Matthias Keul and Johanna Roth (film cut).
2025 - Imhoff Foundation - Improving Cologne
2025 - Female makers award
2025 – PRophy Award in the Charity category
2024 - Swiss Life Prize
2024 – O-Mamori Award in the category ‘Oncology’ awarded by Daiichi-Sankyo
2024 -Town & Country Foundation, North Rhine-Westphalia State Prize
2024 - Judith Grümmer receives the Federal Cross of Merit for her work and the development of the Familienhörbuch gGmbH
2023 - Judith Grümmer receives the Körber Foundation's award for founders 60plus (photo: Claudia Höhne)
2022 – Nominated for the German Engagement Award
2021 - Audience Award at the Social Design Award of SPIEGEL WISSEN and Bauhaus
2021 – FEMALE GOLDEN IMAGE Network Promotion Award
2020 - International Sound
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