Conseil d'écoute pour les enfants : Le podcast Ohrenbär

Ohrenbär Podcast – Fantasy, Listening and Exciting Stories for Children

It’s not just children who love stories. They stimulate the imagination, encourage language development and create shared moments with the family. A real classic amongst children’s podcasts is the Ohrenbär Podcast, which has been delighting children and their grown-ups for many years.

What is the Ohrenbär Podcast?

The Ohrenbär Podcast is an offering from ARD, rbb and NDR. New audio stories appear daily, which are written specifically for children and read aloud by well-known narrators. The stories are age-appropriate, imaginative and tackle themes from children’s everyday lives – from friendship and family to exciting adventures and fantastical worlds. (Apple Podcasts)

What makes it special: The episodes are short enough not to overwhelm children, and at the same time exciting enough to invite them to listen attentively.

Current Stories from the Ohrenbär Podcast

In recent weeks, little listeners were able to experience many exciting adventures once again:

Good Thing Dr. Mumpitz Exists

Dr. Mumpitz is a specialist for the really tricky cases. What does a night watchman do when the night has disappeared? How do you help a magician whose tricks suddenly no longer work? And why does a carp fountain sing? With lots of wit and fantasy, Dr. Mumpitz solves the most bonkers problems.

The School Children of Spatzenwarder

The children of class 1a experience their first shared school trip. It’s not just about hiking across the island of Spatzenwarder, but also about friendship, excitement and the little adventures of school life.

The Letters from Africa

Per receives his grandmother’s old stamp collection. In it, he discovers letters from a girl named Ska, which were written decades ago in Africa. A story about curiosity, history and the magic of letters that connect generations with one another.

The White Elephant

Pon grows up in Asia and experiences the birth of a rare white elephant. The extraordinary animal is to be given to the king as a gift. An exciting story about traditions, responsibility and special friendships.

Why Listening is More Important Than Ever Today

In a world full of screens and fast stimuli, the ability to listen is becoming more and more valuable. Audio stories like the Ohrenbär Podcast help children to develop this important skill playfully.

When listening, children learn:

  • to concentrate for longer periods

  • to better understand spoken language

  • to expand their vocabulary

  • to recognise connections

  • to let their own images emerge in their heads

Unlike television, children must create the characters, places and plots themselves in their imagination. This particularly encourages creativity and imaginative ability.

The Positive Effects of Audio Stories

Regular listening to stories can have many positive effects:

Encouraging Language Development

Children encounter new words, sentence structures and expressions. This supports linguistic development and later makes learning to read easier too.

Stimulating Fantasy

Without predetermined images, adventures emerge in one’s own head. This encourages creativity and imaginative power.

Training Concentration

Anyone who wants to follow a story must listen attentively. This strengthens concentration ability quite naturally.

Creating Relaxation

Many families use audio stories as a fixed part of their evening ritual. The calm narratives help children to settle down and let the day end peacefully.

hörbert – the Ideal Way to Play Podcasts for Children

Anyone who listens to the Ohrenbär Podcast regularly often looks for a simple and child-friendly way to play it. This is exactly where hörbert comes in.

hörbert was developed specifically for children and enables simple operation without complicated menus or apps. Particularly practical for podcast fans: New podcast episodes can be automatically updated via WiFi. So current episodes download onto the device overnight, for example, and are ready to go the next morning.

Children can start their favourite stories independently, whilst parents don’t need to worry about manually transferring new episodes.

With the daily Ohrenbär Podcast especially, this is a great advantage: Every day a new story awaits – and hörbert ensures that it’s already available on the device.

The Ohrenbär Podcast is amongst the most beautiful children’s podcasts in the German-speaking region. The lovingly told stories encourage fantasy, language and concentration and offer children new adventures for their ears every day.

In combination with hörbert, a particularly comfortable solution emerges for families: new podcast episodes are automatically provided, children can listen independently and the joy of stories becomes part of everyday life quite simply.

Anyone who wants to give children the gift of listening will find an ideal team for many exciting listening hours in the Ohrenbär Podcast and hörbert.

Podcast-Link: 
Ohrenbär Podcast

Further article:
Setting up hörbert as a podcast player with Butterfly 2 – how to do it in three minutes