Only four more months?

Podcast host Florian D. Weber talks to a family audiobook participant who not only lives with a palliative diagnosis, but has also been confronted with a rather short predicted lifetime. The mother of two still young children tells what the doctor's statement has triggered for her and why she wants to leave an audiobiography. As a consequence:

Sat.1 Breakfast TV

With the family audiobook, not only the team is active in public relations. Friends, relatives and partners of our project participants are also fully behind the project and carry it out into the world. On April 26, Dr. Ulrich Strauch visited the breakfast television team at Sat.1 and told about his wife with a palliative diagnosis in the Sunday broadcast […].

Podcast: Dying for beginners

The family audiobook was recently a guest with Anika and Johanna from the Palliativteam Nordhessen. A very successful podcast format has been running there since the end of 2024 under the name ‘Die for Beginners’. The palliative podcast, which discusses topics around the end of life, dying and death in a comprehensible and empathetic way, is aimed at all those who want to deal with it intensively. Affected, […]

The MDR reports

One of our project participants was visited by the MDR Sachsen and tells about her life with the disease ALS, about the difficulties that affect her everyday life and also about the fact that she has recorded a family audiobook for her children. For reporting including video clip

dying? – Save yourself who can!

On October 18, the first hospice and palliative care day took place in Westerstede. Under the focus ‘Hospice and palliative care in the field of tension of self-determined dying’, a wide variety of experts came together and offered lectures and workshops. For the family audiobook, audio biographer Carola Schede was on site and sensitized to the topic of audiobiography. The Frisian (radio and television journalist, host […]

Palliative.Detective Podcast

Host Chantal Giehl talks to Judith Grümmer about the family audiobook in episode 51 of her podcast. For both, it is clear that palliative care should not be a taboo topic. Giehl has long been dedicated to the task of examining useful information and interesting facts about the various topics in this area. Together with her interlocutors, […]