Staged literature with historical shadow.
The gist
Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen preserves performed texts in which empires fall, people wait over cards, travelers cross America by sleeper car, and park conversations turn inward. Its pleasures are theatrical rather than conversational: voices, rooms, titles, manners, and moral pressure carry the work.
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About Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen
Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen functions as a broad archive of German-language radio drama, literary performance, and spoken cultural memory. It does not behave like a contemporary talk show. There is little visible hosting personality in the excerpts, and the program often begins inside the work itself, with titles, cast notices, scene-setting, or dialogue already in motion. The result is austere and absorbing. Dürrenmatt’s Romulus der Große arrives as a historical comedy about the liquidation of the Roman world, yet its first exchange is almost domestic: urgent news at a country house, an empire cracking, an emperor still asleep. Maigret und seine Skrupel opens in a room rhythm of cards, numbers, thick air, and waiting. Thomas Mann in der Paulskirche shifts the scale from room to nation, framing return after displacement by the National Socialists as a conflict over competing ideas of Germany. Der schlecht gefesselte Prometheus gives myth a wounded, public voice. Gespräch im Park turns a courteous meeting into a meditation on children, choice, desire, and the need to be recognized by another person. Schlafwagen Pegasus finds poetry in a sleeping car traveling from New York to Chicago on December 21, 1930. Großer Ring mit Außenschleife begins with tram movement, city glimpses, and the matter-of-fact announcement of a radio play production. Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe enters through music, wine, ceremony, and the returning young gentleman with too many polished words. Across these pieces, the show prizes the old virtues of radio: atmosphere made from speech, scene, breath, and implication. It is measured. It is rarely casual. Comedy appears, but often with an undertow of decline, vanity, or social ritual. History appears, but usually as something spoken through characters rather than explained from above. The archive is also uneven in the way large digitized collections can be, with some excerpts showing ad fragments or transcription noise around the actual material. Still, the core identity remains clear. Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen offers staged literature for listeners who like to infer, wait, and hear conflict take shape in the grain of a sentence.
Made for: Best suited to listeners drawn to German-language radio plays, literary adaptation, historical memory, and formal theatrical speech. It rewards patience, close listening, and an appetite for older broadcast textures.
What sets it apart: The show stands apart by presenting a large, text-forward archive rather than a personality-led discussion format. Its range moves from Dürrenmatt, Simenon, and Thomas Mann to myth, travel, public address, and intimate chamber drama.
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Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen
As heard by us
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · August 2026
A German radio-play feed where political memory comes through literature, staged conversation, and Thomas Mann's public reckoning.
Meine Liebe zu Horspielen belongs on the News & Politics shelf, but it gets there through radio drama, literature, and staged argument rather than a straight news format. The sampled episodes rely on formal credits, named casts, and dialogue-heavy scenes.
Why you'd press play
Fog gathers in Elsenberg, and you get to supply the scenery while the voices make it stranger.
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- to hear a park conversation turn a closed door into a question of being chosen
- to enjoy a love comedy that gives flirtation a devastating cost
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Episodes
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Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
Hidden gemSüdwestfunk presents Alfred de Musset's 1834 comedy 'Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe' as a radio play starring Werner Kraus and Oskar Werner.
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Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag
This episode of 'Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen' presents an audio drama adaptation of Eduard Mörike's 1855 novella 'Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag,' dramatizing a single day in September 1787 when Mozart and his wife Constanze stop at Count Schinsberg's estate en route to the Prague premiere of Don Giovanni.
·1h 25m·6 clips - 3
Thomas Mann in der Paulskirche
Hidden gemThis episode of 'Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen' presents the 1949 Hessischer Rundfunk recording of Thomas Mann's Goethe Prize acceptance speech at the Frankfurt Paulskirche, delivered on June 25, 1949 — his first return to Germany after 16 years of exile following the National Socialist seizure of power in 1933.
Apr 12, 2026·55m·4 clips - 4
Schlafwagen Pegasus
This episode describes the Schlafwagen Pegasus sleeping car traveling from New York to Chicago in 1930, comparing its layout to European sleeping cars.
Apr 12, 2026·36m - 5
Gespräch im Park
Hidden gemThis episode of 'Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen' presents a German-language audio drama adaptation of a conversation in a park between a traveling salesman and a 20-year-old maid who has been in service since childhood.
Apr 12, 2026·1h 9m·5 clips - 6
Maigret und seine Skrupel
This episode features a scene from the Maigret crime series by Georges Simenon, where characters engage in a card game (likely Skat) with casual banter and references to boredom.
Apr 12, 2026·1h - 7
Großer Ring mit Außenschleife
This is a German audio drama titled 'Großer Ring mit Außenschleife' by Heinz-Oskar Wuttig, featuring a cast including Lotte Koch and directed by Hans-Ludwig Wichmann, with an opening scene set on Seiboldstraße.
Apr 12, 2026·1h 15m - 8
Romulus der Grosse
This episode presents a dramatic reading of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's historical comedy 'Romulus der Große,' depicting the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 AD through the story of Emperor Romulus Augustulus.
Apr 12, 2026·54m - 9
Der schlecht gefesselte Prometheus
Prometheus recounts his mythological punishment by Zeus for bringing fire to humanity, describing his eternal suffering while chained to a rock in the Caucasus.
Apr 12, 2026·56m - 10
Doktor Murkes gesammeltes Schweigen
Apr 11, 2026·56m - 11
Sherlock Holmes auf Freiersfüßen
Apr 11, 2026·29m - 12
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Two war comrades debate the freedom to smoke while observing a sunset after rain, blending personal defiance with natural imagery.
Apr 11, 2026·1h 3m - 13
Iwan Matwejewitsch und das Krokodil
Apr 11, 2026·52m - 14
Herr Biedermann und die Brandstifter
Apr 11, 2026·58m - 15
Der tolle Tag oder Figaros Hochzeit
Apr 11, 2026·1h 20m - 16
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
A radio play comedy about a young man returning home from Paris with grand words and charm, set during a wine harvest.
Apr 11, 2026·1h - 17
Staatsbegräbnis
This episode discusses Germany's return to the community of free nations, emphasizing European unity, reconciliation with France, and the rejection of sovereign nation-states in favor of a broader Western alliance.
Apr 11, 2026·1h 3m - 18
Maigret und die Groschenschenke
Apr 11, 2026·52m - 19
Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag
Apr 11, 2026·1h 25m - 20
Mord mit Fortsetzung
Apr 11, 2026·1h 50m - 21
Memoiren eines Butlers
Apr 11, 2026·55m - 22
Sir Michaels Abenteuer
Apr 11, 2026·1h 8m - 23
Old Shatterhand in Moabit
Apr 11, 2026·1h 12m - 24
Sherlock Holmes macht ein Experiment
Apr 11, 2026·31m - 25
George Dandin oder Der gefoppte Ehemann
Apr 11, 2026·48m - 26
Haus des himmlischen Entzückens
Apr 11, 2026·1h 45m - 27
Vom Nichts zum Wirtschaftsimperium
Apr 11, 2026·52m - 28
Wilhelm Tell (BR)
Apr 10, 2026·1h 42m - 29
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Hidden gemThis episode of 'Meine Liebe zu Hörspielen' presents the 1961 German radio drama 'Das Spiel von Elsenberg,' written by Marion Georges Valentini and translated by Maria Frey, in which the fog-bound town of Elsenberg seals itself inside its cafés and restaurants every November 12 for a centuries-old ritual encounter with a spectral figure on horseback representing Death.
Apr 10, 2026·1h 5m·4 clips - 30
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Apr 10, 2026·1h 38m - 31
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This is a German audio drama adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring Holmes and Watson investigating a case involving the Beryl Diadem.
Apr 10, 2026·33m - 32
Warum hast du es so eilig, Odysseus
A dramatic audio play adaptation of Antonio Gala's Spanish theater piece where Odysseus and Nausika meet on an island, discussing identity, war, and fate.
Apr 10, 2026·58m