Regulate the estate itself

Topics related to family, illness, grief and death are the focus of the family audiobook. In this way, terms such as estate and will are repeatedly the subject of conversations. Many people use the advice of experts such as lawyers and notaries in the course of their lives to leave everything regulated for their relatives. But it is always desired […]

The Family Audiobook at SWR1

There is far too little talk about death, dying and grief. SWR1 BW wants to counteract this and focused on these topics on 20 March. The family audiobook was also presented in this context. To the contribution

Kneeling and Death

Since 2021, the German Palliative Foundation has been awarding an edition of ‘Knietzsche und der Tod’ to project participants in the family audiobook. The book by Anja von Kampen is intended to show that death is the most normal thing in the world. It can be lurking at any corner and should not be a taboo topic. Knietzsche invites children and also adults in the same […]

What life is all about

Selina Pfrüner, one of the freelance audio biographers of the Familienhörbuch gGmbh, recently gave an interview to the Alanus Werkhaus. She talks about her tasks as a photographer, mediator and audio biographer. From each of these areas, it takes important points for its own development with it. With regard to the family audiobook, she explains that, for example, one of her last audiobooks […]

Visiting the Ammerland Hospice

On August 18, 400 people attended the summer festival in the garden and the premises of the Ammerland Hospice. The family audiobook was on site. Audio biographer Carola Schede spoke about ‘Everything that has a voice survives’ and gave insights into the audiobiography work. The event proves to close taboo topics such as dying and death, but also laughter and love […]

Forget-me-not: Three possibilities

Students from the University of Passau have published a multimedia contribution that focuses more closely on the topic of ‘When young parents die’. Three solution providers, if you can call it that, are presented, including the family audiobook. This is how people find answers to the question ‘what remains?’. What does the research say about this? Find out more: read, listen, watch

Grefrath: Special exhibition

The family audiobook is part of a special exhibition (focus: Life with Death), which takes place in the Lower Rhine Open Air Museum from March to September 2024. A total of 50 loans will be presented. The diverse collection on the subject of dying also deals with traditional customs from the Rhineland and a cinematic documentation of a modern crematorium.