Anyone who has to predominantly stay at home due to the global corona crisis or who is already completely in quarantine at home can increasingly use their time there with digital entertainment such as series, console games or podcasts. Podcasts are now a dime a dozen (more than 500,000 at Apple alone) – but not all are worthwhile. Which rows are recommended? Here you will find a small selection of podcasts for the time at home – from informative to exciting to entertaining.
Informative
For current reasons, at least one podcast on the corona virus must be mentioned first. Careful handling of numbers, well-founded information and facts – that is what you can find in the NDR podcast "The Corona Virus Update with Christian Drosten". On the show, NDR info science editors Korinna Hennig and Anja Martini speak to one of Germany's leading virologists every day: Prof. Christian Drosten, head of virology at the Charité in Berlin. This is not juggling with scientific jargon, but is explained in an understandable and rational way to a new, difficult to understand topic – not least thanks to Christian Drosten's open nature and professional expertise.
Anyone who prefers to avoid the subject of finance – like most young people – but is at least subconsciously aware that sooner or later you will not be able to get past it, could go to the podcast "Der Finanzwesir rocket – Der somewhat different podcast about money and financial education "help with Albert Warnecke and Daniel Korth. The promise of the two – "We have a nice chat about finance. You will learn a lot, but it will also be fun" – is definitely being kept.
exciting
The crime podcast from "Zeit Online" is both informative and exciting. "Crimes" illuminates curious criminal cases. However, not in the true crime style of an audio book, but because of the background to the cases and the experiences of the "Zeit" journalist and crime expert Sabine Rückert. Together with her colleague Andreas Sentker, she gets to the bottom of various crime stories and court cases. Paulina Wohlers and Laura Krass investigate the same topic with a different approach in their true crime podcast "Mordlust – Crimes and their Backgrounds". The two talk on ARD and ZDF radio about true criminal cases from Germany.
After the "Stern" published excerpts from the "Hitler Diaries" in April 1983, the sensational publication soon turned out to be a fake. In "Faking Hitler" the magazine works on its own scandal. The recorded conversations between counterfeiter Konrad Kujau and "Stern" reporter Gerd Heidemann can be heard in the podcast. Whimsical and exciting.
Entertaining
The classics among the entertaining podcasts are diverse duo talks with useless knowledge, idiotic theories and humorous reporting. One cannot avoid the evergreen "Fest und fluschig" by Jan Böhmermann and Olli Schulz. Now even more popular, the "Mixed Hack" podcast follows a similar recipe. The show by comedian Felix Lobrecht and comedy author / columnist Tommi Schmitt was the most popular in 2019. The female counterpart is provided by radio presenters Ariana Baborie and Laura Larsson with a "men's table setting".
The podcast by Charlotte Roche and her husband Martin Keß-Roche is informative, exciting and entertaining. In "Couple Diology", the two subject their 15-year relationship to very intimate audio therapy. In 15 episodes, they relentlessly speak openly about their partnership for an hour. It doesn't sound very exciting at first, but when you find out what Roche and her husband have been through, it can be quite fascinating. It's about "sex and parcel services, money and dishwashers, other couples and plastic wrap".