"“Gute Unterhaltung” <— I see what you did there. ;-)"

Ich plädiere auf "unschuldig" im Nicht-Sinne der Anklage :-)

How does Deepl translate that nice little German sentence?

"I plead not guilty to the charge of not guilty to the charges"

<it's absurd but I like it :-)>

"But it might be worth the effort to create an Audible.de account."

Definitely. Audible.de offers a lot of stuff in German or English for free

(e.g., in the case of "John Sinclair," the first ten episodes in German are free

- if I remember correctly).

By the way, you can also find many of the "John Sinclair Hörspiele" on Youtube for free, e.g. on this YT channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/JohnSinclair_Official/videos

Personally, I rarely listen to this stuff (e.g. "John Sinclair", "Perry Rhodan", Karl May's "Winnetou", etc.) anymore because nowadays I prefer non-German audio productions with more advanced / mature topics, esp. for language learning.

However, for people who are learning German and are interested in such popular/pulp genres, it can be very entertaining as the audio productions

are often of high quality.

"Another place with lots of early/classic Hörspiels is Spotify."

I agree.

And I think we already published a list of German radio broadcasters (i.e. Deutsche Hörfunkanstalten wie der WDR, MDR, Bayern 2, etc.) on LingQ, which offer thousands of audio books / audio dramas for free.

WDR, for example, also offers "Tatort" as an interactive audio game: https://www1.wdr.de/radio/hoerspiel/index.html

Switching back to German:

Was freie Hörspielproduktionen angeht, ist der deutschsprachige Raum (Deutschland - Austria - Schweiz) definitiv ein Paradies, insbesondere für diejenigen, die Deutsch lernen (möchten).

Nice Sunday to y'all

Peter

I know, I'm answering quite late to your post, but I stumbled upon it just today.

Monster 1983 and Ghostbox are really amazing audio plays. I can strongly recommend them. The only disadvantage for learners is that there is no transcript available.