Spark
The Zündfunk was founded in 1974 as "youth magazine" and thrived 30 years later to an established magazine in the radio of the Bavarian Radio . In the first 20 years of its existence, the Zündfunk was trend-setting because of its unusually direct address for the radio landscape of the time, the communication of pop culture and alternative literature, as well as the critical reporting on political grievances. Many of the authors and editors later rose to high positions within the BR and other broadcasters. At around the same time founded "youth waves" such as Point (Süddeutscher Rundfunk), SF-Beat (Sender Free Berlin) and Radiothek (WDR) were discontinued because the idea of youth radio working against the mainstream had outlived itself.
history
Beginnings
The term “ignition radio” came about as part of a brainstorming session among youth radio editors in 1973. “Radio ignition” emerged as the favorite. Dagmar Reim finally turned the word around to "spark". On January 2, 1974, the youth program on Bayern 2 went on air for the first time under the title “Zündfunk”. The ignition radio ran for 30 minutes each Monday, Wednesday and Friday. At that time, the portfolio of the youth radio editorial team also included the programs “Kontakt”, “Redaktion 4-32”, “Club 16” (later: “Zündfunk Club”; music magazine), “Playback Club 16”, “Pop Selection” (monothematic pop story ; Julia Edenhofer invented the broadcast title ), “Klickfunk” (for the younger youth) and “ Pop Sunday ” (literature and rock music). Pop Sunday saw itself as a counter-movement against the cultural scene, skimmed many authors from the alternative literary scene and was the nucleus of several artistic careers.
Political orientation
The ignition radio developed from "youth radio" to a modern target group program with independent and critical content. Politically explosive topics have been addressed since the 1970s, for example in programs about the so-called "Haidhausen riots", the protests against the Wackersdorf reprocessing plant , against the closure of youth centers, about the German autumn of 1977 , the anti-nuclear power plant protests , the fall of the Berlin Wall and the resurgence of right-wing extremism in the early 1990s. During the Cold War , the editorial team tried not to portray the other Germany, the GDR , as a caricature, but to show everyday life beyond the death strip and the wall.
Competition to youth waves
In the 1980s, the editorial team was confronted with additional challenges: the private broadcasters pushed their way onto the market with pop music. The Zündfunk positioned itself in the increasingly competitive radio market as an alternative to hit programs for young listeners in other programs and alongside Bayern 3 , the successful mainstream offer of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, by concentrating on reporting outside the mainstream . Punk , heavy metal , techno took place first, when on the radio, then on the radio. Trends like the “ Hamburger Schule ” with bands like Blumfeld or Tocotronic and German-speaking rap were picked up early on.
New concepts in the 1980s
In 1978 Christoph Lindenmeyer took over the acting and in 1980 the full head of the youth radio editorial team. He shaped the direction of Zündfunks until he switched to radio play in 1988 and initiated several innovative projects, including the first regular, weekly computer magazine on German-language radio: Bit, byte, bitten (first broadcast in 1984). Numerous innovative concepts for the 1980s and 1990s emerged in ignition radio, for example
- the monothematic broadcasts on Saturday, where, framed by rock music, the focus was on big topics such as "Die Kälte" or "P as in private",
- Mid-1980s, the idea of unknown musicians, the new technology of Home Recordings served,
- At the beginning of the Techno- DJ culture unmoderated programs with then largely unknown DJs such as DJ Hell and Paul van Dyk
- From 1993 to 1997, Zündfunk broadcast the “ Radiotop ” on Monday with the phone always open, a mostly sleeping co-moderator sitting in the studio in silence, and music between death metal and jungle .
Promotion of young talent
The Zündfunk promotes the Bavarian and national young musicians. In addition to the on-air presence, also with demo cassette tests (later in MP3 format) or the three CDs "Unter Unserem Himmel", on which Bavaria's young pop artists gathered. In 2002, the Zündfunk launched the indoor festival “Bavarian Open”, which has been held every autumn since then in the Bavarian Broadcasting House in Munich. Since 2009 it has been continued as an on3 festival by the BR youth offer on3 , which was launched at the time .
Special programs
On March 23, 2012, Zündfunk said goodbye to its traditional Studio 12 before moving to a fully digital broadcasting complex with a two-hour special under the title “The Analog Salon”. Recorded program elements were completely dispensed with: music, jingles, reports, built-up articles, etc. a. were thus - based on the early days of radio - produced live in the studio.
Initiative "Save Spark!"
“Zündfunk rescue!” Was an initiative of listeners to the show Zündfunk auf Bayern 2 , which was founded in April 2006 to oppose the program being canceled. A total of more than 11,000 signatures (as of December 2006) were collected. Numerous celebrities supported the campaign, including Elfriede Jelinek , Sandra Maischberger and Heribert Prantl .
As became known on April 11, 2006 via telepolis , there was a risk of the ignition radio being discontinued in favor of a separate youth wave of the Bavarian radio. This is to be broadcast over the Internet and using DAB technology ; several newspapers, including SZ and taz report that the concept on 27 April 2006 the Radio Committee of the Broadcasting Council was presented. The action save Zündfunk! campaigned against the dismissal plans, ultimately with success.
To emphasize the demand, the campaign also organized a festival in Munich's Muffathalle, where 18 bands and artists played in front of a thousand guests.
In the further course of 2006, the members of the campaign appealed to the members of the Broadcasting Council to develop the program Zündfunk into its own VHF program, since Bayerischer Rundfunk is the only ARD radio station without its own youth program. To this end, they started a petition "Junge Welle auf UKW" together with the Bavarian Youth Ring .
Significance of the spark
effect
The effect of the ignition radio extends far beyond the regional distribution of the Bavarian radio, especially since the broadcasts can be received via web radio . In surveys of music magazines such as Spex and de: Bug , Zündfunk is repeatedly chosen among the most popular radio programs. The orientation of the program, decried by conservative listeners as “left” - a chronic discussion of the 1980s - was seen by others as a cover for a conservative broadcaster to give itself a progressive look. There was no noticeable influence of the radio management on the content; However, the editorial team had to defend itself against numerous attempts to postpone and shorten the programs - not always successfully. Overall, youth radio programs have lost their importance since there were waves of rock music and teenage-related topics and internet radio with an unrivaled range of music and information became a mass medium. ARD -wide, the Zündfunk is the only remaining series of programs under the flag of a "youth radio". The corresponding programs, such as "Point" on Süddeutscher Rundfunk, the " Radiothek " on WDR or "SF Beat" on Sender Freies Berlin, have all long been discontinued. In March 2012, singer Sven Regener gave Zündfunk an interview on the subject of copyright, thereby sparking a controversial debate.
Awards
The Zündfunk has received numerous awards for its innovative reporting, including a. with the Robert Geisendörfer Prize of the Evangelical Church, the RIAS Award , the Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists, the New York Radio Festival Award in silver and gold, the IG Medien Glasshouse Prize, the Bavarian Rock Prize Pick Up 2003 and with the Journalist Prize of the German Cultural Council 2008. In 2011 the journalist Marco Maurer was awarded the Civis Prize for his spark report "Mein Türke und Ich" . In 2012, Zündfunk editor Christian Schiffer received the Kurt Magnus Prize and in 2015 the Prix Marulić .
Known employees
Well-known media personalities such as the ARD talker Sandra Maischberger , the ZDF presenter Thomas Gottschalk , Lotto Fee Franziska Reichenbacher or the former director of the Berlin-Brandenburg broadcasting company, Dagmar Reim , gained their first experiences in radio at Zündfunk. Writers, dramaturges and filmmakers made contributions to Zündfunk: Max Goldt , Rainald Goetz , Friedrich Ani , Romuald Karmakar , Herbert Achternbusch and Elfriede Jelinek could be heard on Zündfunk early in their careers. At the age of 16, the writer Helmut Krausser presented "Thirteen pessimistic poems" in Pop Sunday. Book author Thomas Meinecke has presented the music program Zündfunk Nachtmix at Zündfunk since the mid-1980s, now every two weeks. Karl Bruckmaier was one of the very early music presenters of Zündfunks and is now a translator and radio play director, among other things. Nikolai von Koslowski , today one of the most important feature directors of ARD , was a writer and director for Zündfunk in the 1980s.
Events
The Zündfunk organizes panel discussions on current topics from politics and society at regular intervals.
Zündfunk network congress
On November 28, 2013, under the title “ 42 ”, the first Zündfunk network congress on network policy issues took place in the Munich Volkstheater . Guests were among others Neil Harbisson , Anke Domscheit-Berg , Wolfgang Nešković and Marina Weisband . The congress has taken place annually since then. Since then, the speakers have included Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger , Shahak Shapira , Peter Sunde , Constanze Kurz , Linus Neumann , Markus Beckedahl , Martina Mara , Frank Rieger , Philipp Ruch u. a.
City of Pop
For the 30th birthday of Zündfunk, a special edition of the magazine “19” was published: City of Pop I. In cooperation with the Zündfunk editorial team, the Munich agency Designliga developed an information graphic in the form of an imaginary city that presents pop-cultural contexts. The first edition of the City of Pop shows over 800 streets and squares and over 350 individual icons developed for the respective artist. On the back of the card, the most important social events are shown in a timeline. The Pinakothek der Moderne included the map in their new collection. For the 40th birthday of Zündfunks 2013 appeared: City of Pop III. For this edition, the plan was drawn entirely by hand. In total, the City of Pop grew to over 1,300 streets and squares, and over 500 icons were added.
Broadcast times
Broadcast times on Bayern 2
- Monday to Thursday and Saturday 7: 05–8: 00 p.m. (until July 1, 2011: until 8:30 p.m.)
- Friday 7: 05–9: 00 p.m.
- Spark generator on Sunday 10: 05-23: 00
- Night mix daily 11: 05–24: 00
Logos
literature
- Save the radio . In: Die Zeit , No. 9/2005
Web links
General
- Official website
- Spark playlists
- sub-bavaria, the wiki of the Bavarian subculture
- The Zündfunk podcast offer
Rumors of a 2006 breakup
- Bavaria closes: ignition radio - rumors of an execution Telepolis
- Save spark! (Action to prevent the planned disruption of the ignition spark)
- Ignition at "Zündfunk": About the rumors about breaking up taz
- Grace period for "ignition radio": Statements from the BR radio committee taz
- Radio, Someone Still Loves you JUSTmag
Footnotes
- ↑ Youth radio was a genre typical of the time of the student movement , when the voices of young people were more important and more timidly picked up by broadcasters. Similar to the school radio , the political and media situation changed in the early 2000s so that the editorial offices for youth radio were abolished or absorbed by others.
- ↑ The editor-in-chief Christoph Lindenmeyer became head of radio plays and B2-Wellen, the moderators Dieter Heß, Herbert Kapfer and Jürgen Seeger became head of culture, radio play and head of music in the BR. Moderator Jo Angerer became editor of Report on WDR, editor Mercedes Riederer became head of politics and editor-in-chief of BR, editor Klaus Kastan correspondent of BR in London and Washington, spark writer Nikolai von Koslowski became feature director for ARD.
- ↑ The history of youth radio goes back much longer - in 1956 , a “magazine for young people” was broadcast on Bavarian radio for the first time.
- ^ Petitions list ( Memento of January 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Bavaria is closing . Telepolis , April 11, 2006
- ↑ Festival "More Spark"
- ^ Petition "Junge Welle auf FM" ( Memento from October 17th, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Sven Regener's angry speech: Debate about copyright - Mr. Regener mixes up
- ↑ # zf42: The network congress . Bavarian radio; accessed on December 1, 2013.
- ↑ Zündfunk Netzkongress 2017. Retrieved on October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Speaker 2017 - Zündfunk Network Congress. Retrieved October 14, 2017 .
- ↑ City of Pop I ( Memento from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ City of Pop III: Archive link ( Memento from November 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )