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Nachdem Pinocchio einer räuberischen Katze und einem Gaunerfuchs in die Hände gefallen war, nahm ihn der weiße Falke Ritter Falk von Weißenschwingen mit hoch in die Lüfte und brachte den Jungen in das Schloß einer Fee.

Kraus selbst schrieb: "Das Denkmal des Schauspielers ist das Grammophon... Daß die Stimme der Wolter verklungen war, ehe es die Technik so weit gebracht hatte, dessen möge sich die Technik schämen."

Diese Aufnahme ist vor allem ein historisches Dokument. Es wird hier kein repräsentatives Selbstportrait der vielseitigen Persönlichkeit Karl Kraus gegeben, sondern es werden Texte geboten, die oft aufgrund der Kürze ausgewählt und hastig gelesen werden.

Sie fahren auf der Autobahn, und anstatt sich des Lebens zu freuen, ärgern Sie sich - über wen oder was auch immer...

Eines Tages bekommt der Holzschnitzer Meister Zorntiegel von seinem Freund dem Tischlermeister "Pflaume" einen Holzscheit geschenkt, das wie ein richtiges Kind Gefühle zeigen kann. Der Tischlermeister wollte ursprünglich ein Tischbein daraus machen, bis das Stück Tannenholz zu sprechen begann.

Eine klirrend kalte Vollmondnacht im Wiesbachtal. Einige Männer haben sich gegen vier Uhr früh zusammengefunden, um Trauben für Eiswein...

Können Sie sich vorstellen, dass Sie auf Ihrer Fahrt in den Urlaub alle hundert Kilometer einen Anhalter mitnehmen...

Dieses Feature beinhaltet einen ganz besonderen Rundgang durch Paris. Hier werden die Restaurants, Brasseriens und Bistros der Maigret-Krimis vorgestellt sowie die jeweiligen Lieblingsessen des Kommissars. Regie: Eberhard Klasse.

Sie haben schon Hunderte von Büchern über Erfolg gelesen? Dann wird dieses Hörbuch Ihnen den "Aha-Effekt" geben...

Pursuing literary glory, Edward Gunther gives up his job as a copywriter, sells everything he owns, and moves with his wife and three children from Chicago to Venice. But success does not come as quickly or as painlessly as Edward had hoped. During his first month in Italy, he struggles to get his essays published, argues with his wife about the family finances, and embarks on an unsteady affair with Nina Callahan, an American poet who insists on keeping him at arm's length.

I have never murdered, and I have never been murdered, but I have dreamed of both. Alfred C. Martino is the author of three highly acclaimed novels, Perfected By Girls, Over the End Line, and Pinned. Mr. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, and graduated from Millburn High School. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall Graduate School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City.

Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue...

Set in the mythical Wild West, an aging cowboy deals with the passage of time while recalling a life-defining moment with a woman of his youth. Alfred C. Martino is the author of the novels Perfected by Girls, Pinned, and Over The End Line as well as,the short stories "Quiet Desperation" and "Grad School Daydreams." A resident of Jersey City, New Jersey, he is a graduate of Duke University and the Marshall Graduate School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Join four of today's best horror authors as they take you on a journey through dark lands and evil minds: An unfortunate prostitute joins a freak show to get away from her sordid past only to find that death follows her everywhere. A cooking show host is targeted by a jealous chef who wields a sharp blade and a supernatural grudge. A family man is given a choice by a deadly stranger to decide between love or survival. A former lover enlists the help of a shaman to find his kidnapped girlfriend in a land of mystical demons and gods.

It's the eve of the "ripening" as Gibson Blount discovers the secret history of an ancient race and the true outcome of Lucifer's fall. Now, the fallen angel, Azazel, has horrific plans for Blount's town...and the world. With the help of a local priest, a prostitute, an orphan, historical figure William Quantrill, and one of God's chief angels, Blount must dig for truth and unearth secrets woven deeply within Time itself to uncover a supernatural plot put into motion by the church to punish the Roanoke Puritans.

Amateurs and professionals studying birds at the end of the 19th century were a contentious, passionate group with goals that intersected, collided, and occasionally merged in their writings and organizations. Driven by a desire to advance science, as well as by ego, pride, honor, insecurity, religion and other clashing sensibilities, they struggled to absorb the implications of evolution after Darwin. In the process, they dramatically reshaped the study of birds. Daniel Lewis here explores the professionalization of ornithology through one of its key figures: Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian Institution’s first curator of birds.

Melinda Soto, aged 64, vacationing in Mexico, is murdered by a fellow American tourist. Back in her hometown of Reno, Nevada, she leaves behind her adopted son, Jeremy, whom she rescued from war-torn Guatamala when he was a toddler - just one of her many causes over the years. And she leaves behind a circle of friends: Veronique, the academic stuck in a teaching job from which she can't retire; Rosemary, who's losing her husband to Alzheimer's and who's trying to lose herself in volunteer work; Henrietta, the priest at Rosemary's and Melinda's church.

Microscopic "nanobots" kept the wheels of civilization turning but sometimes went rogue, with disastrous consequences. Lance Michaels had grown up with a body filled with nanobots, which he could send out in invisible swarms, still under his control, and reprogram a rogue "hive" out of existence. But his latest job may be his last. Sent to defuse a hive that has taken over an entire planet, he finds that a psychotic child with control over nanobots like his own, but more powerful, is directing the hive....

Reece Canby, owner of the Diamond RC, spent years as a youngster on the nearby Mescalero Apache reservation. By treaty Chief Antone's Mescalero tribe owns the Sentinel Basin. Now this grazing land is desired by Sax Starke and Chelso DeLacca of the Teepee spread in order for them to expand their cattle herd. The first step in their plan is to stir up trouble with the Mescaleros so that the federal government will have to intervene.

Hear a lecture given by young-adult author Alfred C. Martino to high-school students as he discusses the craft of writing and his novels, Perfected by Girls, Pinned, and Over the End Line. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, New Jersey, and graduated from Millburn High School, where is played varsity soccer and was captain of the varsity wrestling team. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.

By "assembling" some of the most fascinating figures in world history, Meeting of Minds provided a groundbreaking opportunity for audiences to be exposed to ideas by way of a medium not normally known for its intellectual vigor. Portrayed by actors, panelists engage in stimulating round-table discussions that were conducted like any other talk show but featured prominent influencers from bygone generations—not just philosophers and politicians, but poets, playwrights, and presidents.