- Tad
- Hierarch
- From: California
- Registered: 2001-05-30
- Posts: 6981
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OTHERLAND Radio Play
I just received this message from a very nice lady at Hessischer Rundfunk (the radio network that is producing the show.) Thought you might be interested.
"We are glad to inform you that we will start the production of the radio play of "Otherland" on January 19th. Your characters will soon be given a voice! This project is very important to us and we are very proud to be getting started.
"It will be a 24-hours radio play. Broadcasting starts in October on two stations on Hessischer Rundfunk: on YOU FM, the youth program, and on hr2, the culture program. At the same time the radio play will be published by Hörverlag, Munich, as an audio book. The public premiere will be on October 7th in a club in Frankfurt, called the "U60311", which will take place during the International Frankfurt Book Fair. We hope you will be able to come and honor the premiere with your presence!
"In addition to the production and broadcasting we are planning to open a website. There will also be a webcam in the studio. We would like to give the opportunity for call-ins and chats and invite our listeners to ask questions about the production. We would be very happy if you would find the time to participate in a chat!
"There will be about 280 characters in the play, but not all of them have been cast yet. [...] As you know, Walter Adler is the director, who also adapted the book for the radio play. The music will be composed by Pierre Oser."
[ January 08, 2004: Message edited by: Tad ]
"God bless your crooked little heart."
- Tom Waits
- CherylMorgan
- Pilgrim
- From: Hanging around
- Registered: 2001-06-07
- Posts: 1265
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Seriously cool. Please keep us updated, Tad.
- Jendaiya
- Pilgrim
- From: Canada
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 21821
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Dude. Wow.
I wish I could listen to it.
Beauty will save the world.
~Prince Myshkin,
The Idiot, by Dostoevsky
- ettelewen
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-06-02
- Posts: 10871
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Very Cool, Tad.
Congratulations!
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- Sahi
- Mantis
- From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 37874
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
*ponders buying said audio book*
Yalahii.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Clods
- Pilgrim
- From: New Zealand
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 370
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Is it all going to be in German?
"One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams." E. V. Lucas
- Miiru
- Pilgrim
- From: Just a bit left of center.
- Registered: 2001-06-20
- Posts: 14675
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Ooooooh, how spiffy! :D Congrats, Tad; you're officially multimedia *G*
Ted Kennedy in a speedo is just another sign of the coming apocalypse.
-wiked
- Olaf
- Mantis
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- Registered: 2001-07-16
- Posts: 1579
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
YES!
I am very much looking forward to it...and I am German!
I will most certainly buy the audiobook!
- Natroga
- Pilgrim
- From: Germany
- Registered: 2003-06-08
- Posts: 68
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Oh boy, I never ever dreamed of ever saying this, but: It's good to be German. ;-)
Oh, and: FINALLY!
[ January 08, 2004: Message edited by: Natroga ]
She who was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in hell, - Persephone
-- Prayer to Persephone, Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Jaime
- Pilgrim
- From: Wilmington, NC
- Registered: 2001-06-01
- Posts: 11441
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Somebody bug Marlies - she's near Frankfurt, isn't she?
Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again.
-- Heinlein
- Artas
- Pilgrim
- From: currently in Oxford
- Registered: 2001-06-09
- Posts: 798
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
- "If brains were beauty, I'd be Brad Pitt"
- chamberk
- Pilgrim
- From: Athens, GA
- Registered: 2001-12-29
- Posts: 3219
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
That's really cool.
I wish I could understand German.
"You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows." - Bob Dylan
- Prowler
- Pilgrim
- From: Netherlands
- Registered: 2002-12-31
- Posts: 18
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
In German? :S Ahh well, at least I will be able to understand it...
Prowler
- Olaf
- Mantis
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Once the audiobook is released in the fall it will be available for order via amazon.de which means that all you English boys and girls can learn the wonderful language of Goethe and Schiller via Tadīs wonderful words.
*grins*
- Sahi
- Mantis
- From: Assendelft (the Netherlands)
- Registered: 2001-06-04
- Posts: 37874
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Prowler wrote:In German? :S Ahh well, at least I will be able to understand it...
Prowler
And it will be great practice for us Dutchies too. :)
I already have one Stephen King book in German in my collection. And I could actually read that pretty easily. :)
Yalahii.
"I'm a much nicer person online" - Aan'Allein
First member of the Shadowmarch Council of Sages, Official Quiller's Mint Historian
You may call me the Porcupine Lady, or if you are feeling generous the Erinaceous One.
- Olaf
- Mantis
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Despite its reputation, German is not *that* difficult to learn.
I grew up on the German-Dutch border, so I know that Dutch people are incredibly good at learning other languages. At least much more so than most Germans.
- rimmers
- Pilgrim
- From: vienna
- Registered: 2002-04-29
- Posts: 3251
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
now THAT sounds like a multiquadrillion thing! it is fantastic that the radio play will be published as an audiobook as well, since i am not sure if everyone could receive the radio programs in europe.
now it is time for you english speaking smarchers to learn german hehehe...
- Gregor S.
- Pilgrim
- Registered: 2001-06-18
- Posts: 646
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
So German public radio is not dead yet!
It will be an interesting project.
One morning, when i woke from troubled dreams....
- Artas
- Pilgrim
- From: currently in Oxford
- Registered: 2001-06-09
- Posts: 798
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
With a link to Shadowmarch!
- "If brains were beauty, I'd be Brad Pitt"
- Olaf
- Mantis
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Of course, Shadowmarch.com is Tadīs offical homepage. Much more so than TadWilliams.com which is maintained by his publisher.
The radio drama will be good publicity for Tadīs other works as well. Especially, since the German translation of WAR OF THE FLOWERS will be out around the same time.
I hope that Tad will tour Germany this fall to promote both radio drama and WotF.
- Earthmanu
- Pilgrim
- From: France - near PARIS - Marly-le
- Registered: 2002-01-13
- Posts: 291
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
These are great news indeed.
Talking about transnational adaptation of SF/fantasy books, I use this popular topic for the publicity of a much smaller project.
Some friends of my french local town are preparing the first french theatrical adaptation of the fourth DISCWORLD NOVEL "MORT".
They have traduced the english version of the play and Terry Pratchett has approved this work.
Terry Pratchett will try to be present at the first representation which is sheduled for March (20) 2004.
- My former pseudo in the french minitel roleplaying community AKELA
was "GAG THE FOOL" , for about one thousand hours ...
- I wish to share experience about
1/writing rpg-scenarii in Tolkien's Beleriand ... 2/teaching roleplay and impro to disabled adolescents ... 3/simulations of acrobatic kites flying
- Artas
- Pilgrim
- From: currently in Oxford
- Registered: 2001-06-09
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Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Great!
Incidentally, is it just me, or do we have relatively little French members on the board? Perhaps it has something to do with English being less spoken/written by French people?
- "If brains were beauty, I'd be Brad Pitt"
- Earthmanu
- Pilgrim
- From: France - near PARIS - Marly-le
- Registered: 2002-01-13
- Posts: 291
Re: OTHERLAND Radio Play
Artas wrote:Great!
Incidentally, is it just me, or do we have relatively little French members on the board? Perhaps it has something to do with English being less spoken/written by French people?
The main reason is : no cheap paperback french traductions of "OTHERLAND".
One french paperback version (8 volumes) costs almost as much as TWO english hardback full versions.
Conclusion: Terry Pratchett is one hundred times more famous in France than Tad Williams.
Thanks to german editors, this is not the case in Germany. ;-)
- My former pseudo in the french minitel roleplaying community AKELA
was "GAG THE FOOL" , for about one thousand hours ...
- I wish to share experience about
1/writing rpg-scenarii in Tolkien's Beleriand ... 2/teaching roleplay and impro to disabled adolescents ... 3/simulations of acrobatic kites flying
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