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Rhetorik-Handbuch 2100 – Interviews führen Darf ich Sie mal fragen
Rhetorik-Handbuch 2100 – Interviews führen Darf ich Sie mal fragen is a rhetoric handbook with a single, demanding subject: the interview — and it begins, as every interview must, with a request for permission. Darf ich Sie mal fragen: may I ask you something. That polite little question is the whole art in miniature. The interviewer holds no authority but the one the asked person grants, question by question, and yet must lead: draw out what is guarded, follow what is evasive, keep the conversation alive and on course without ever seizing it. Rhetorik — rhetoric, the craft of effective speech — is often shelved as the art of talking; this handbook treats its quieter half, the art of asking. A good question is a designed object: open enough to invite the real answer, exact enough to prevent the rehearsed one, timed for the moment the interviewee is ready to give more than planned. Handbuch 2100 promises the modern form of this old craft — the interview as now conducted for print, broadcast, research and work — and treats interviewing not as talent but as technique: preparable, practicable, improvable by anyone willing to study how questions work.
Rhetorik-Handbuch 2100 – Interviews führen Darf ich Sie mal fragen is the rhetoric handbook of the interview: how to ask, listen, follow up and lead a conversation whose official speaker is somebody else. It serves journalists, researchers, podcasters, managers and students — anyone whose work requires drawing people out in German conversation. In this collection it is the speaking shelf’s most specialised volume: not phrases for the traveller, but the professional craft of the question, from the polite opening to the answer that makes the piece. It assumes the craft can be learned — because in its pages, question by question, it is.
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Rhetorik-Handbuch 2100 – Interviews führen Darf ich Sie mal fragen is a German rhetoric handbook devoted to one genre of speech: the interview. Its subtitle is its method and its manners at once — Darf ich Sie mal fragen, may I ask you something — the request with which every interview opens and on whose answer the whole conversation depends. Where general rhetoric teaches the speech and the argument, this Handbuch teaches the led conversation: speech whose success is measured by what the other person says.
The 2100 in its name marks its stance: the interview as practised now — recorded, published, researched, hired through — in media and professional life. It treats the interviewer’s skills as a craft with principles rather than a gift with mysteries: preparation, question design, listening, and the ethics of an exchange in which one side asks and the other exposes.
What Learners Will Practise
Designing the Question
The interview stands or falls before it begins, in the questions prepared. Readers practise the taxonomy that matters: the open question that invites narrative, the closed one that pins a fact, the follow-up that refuses the rehearsed answer, and the silence after a reply — the most productive question of all. Each kind is a tool with a moment, and the craft lies in the sequence.
Leading by Listening
The handbook’s central discipline is that the interviewer leads through attention, not interruption. Readers practise hearing the answer’s unopened doors — the half-finished thought, the telling detail passed over — and returning to them with the next question. This is rhetoric inverted: the speech that shapes the conversation is the one the interviewee gives, and the interviewer’s art is to make it worth giving.
The Manners of the Ask
Darf ich Sie mal fragen is not decoration; it is technique. Readers practise the conduct that keeps permission alive across an hour: the courteous opening, the hard question asked fairly, the confidence respected, the ending that leaves the door open. An interviewee who felt handled well tells the truth more completely — politeness, in this craft, is an information strategy.
Key Features
Its single-genre focus is the feature: one speech situation, treated at handbook depth. The modern framing — Handbuch 2100 — is the second: the interview across today’s media and professions, not only the newspaper studio. In this collection it stands alone on the rhetoric shelf, the professional’s counterpart to the phrase books and conversation trainers around it.
Who This Book Is For
Journalists and media students are its obvious readers, joined by researchers who interview for data, podcasters building a format, and managers for whom the hiring and appraisal interview is a rhetorical act with consequences. Teachers of communication will use it directly. Anyone who must ask strangers difficult questions in German, and be answered, is its reader.
How to Use This Book
Use it before a real interview, in preparation, and after it, in review: the handbook’s standards are most useful applied to your own recordings and transcripts, where your habits — the interrupted answer, the question asked twice, the opening missed — are visible in ink. Practise question sequences on paper until the kinds are distinct in your hand; in the chair, there is no time to consult the taxonomy. Let each conducted interview be marked against the craft, and the marking, repeated, becomes the skill.
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