Old love doesn't rust (radio broadcast)

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Alte Liebe does not rust was an entertainment program based on portraits of cities on the radio of the GDR .

History and structure

The series was a continuation of public entertainment programs or so-called colorful evenings that had been organized by the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk in the immediate post-war era , such as Leipziger Allerlei with Siegfried Loyda and the Erich Donnerhack Orchestra or colleague is the same .

In the mid-1960s, when the radio's music programs began to focus more and more on the needs of younger listeners, the search for musical entertainment for the elderly was sought. Thus arose the concept in a city for a city a musically influenced entertainment show to make that offered the citizens of the particular place at a public event an attractive two-hour live program with stars of the cheerful muse and therefore the listeners of I Radio DDR a humorous, regionally informative radio broadcast of approx. 105–110 minutes each , which was broadcast on Sundays from 9:15 am to 11:00 am and repeated in the night program.

The moderator Günter Hansel (born June 1, 1931, Leipzig; died 2002) was seconded by the cabaret artist Manfred Uhlig , who as a comic person in the role of a waiter acted as his “fabulous waitress”. From autumn 1965, the highlight of every program was Manfred Uhlig's attempt to explain the origins of the city's name with a rabulistically interpreted anecdote.

Four weeks before the Estraden program to be recorded, the four-person design team made a research trip to the location of the radio portrait. Editor-in-chief Wolfgang Bauer investigated the historical, economic and cultural aspects of the city, moderator Günter Hansel discussed with the respective mayor, because the focus of the program was on a more detailed discussion of the city's remarkable strengths. Head of organization Schüttauf sounded out the stage and neighborhood conditions and co-moderator Manfred Uhlig listened to the weaknesses and downsides of the place and its residents in hairdressing salons, bars or waiting rooms of the polyclinics, which he then made public as punchlines of his waiter appearances to the laughter of the audience.

The first episode ran on May 1, 1965 from Waltershausen in Thuringia. Each calendar year there were nine to twelve issues of the series. With a 300th program planned from Zwickau, the aging team wanted to say goodbye to the series itself in 1990. The events of autumn 1989 had created new priorities in East German cities, and so the series came to an end in October 1989 after just 289 episodes.

More than 20 locations had the honor of being able to host the program twice, but this was also justified because the infrastructure required for recording the program, in particular a suitable hall and the power supply required for the technology, were available on site had to, which made many applications and applications obsolete from the outset.

The radio series, which ran successfully for over 24 years until October 1989, is one of the longest-lived of its kind. On the occasion of the 100th edition, the well-known rose breeder Anni Berger from Bad Langensalza dedicated a rose cultivation called Alte Liebe to the series . Curiosity and celebrated radio failure from the history of the series: It happened in the event on May 19, 1978, which was broadcast live for once. Usually one produced in advance, because the GDR seldom left anything to chance. Moderator Günter Hansel asked the deputy mayor to rewrite his “City X”, because the listeners had to guess the next event location as part of a competition. But the mayor from Bitterfeld revealed the solution to the excitement when asking the question and triggered a huge laugh.

Production team

Sound carrier

  • Manfred Uhlig, Günter Hansel - Alte Liebe nicht rostet , LP, 1973, with the Scherbelberger Musikanten and the Radio GDR entertainment orchestra, recording of the public event in Riesa on September 1, 1969, AMIGA - 8 45 046
  • Günter Hansel, Manfred Uhlig - Alte Liebe , long-playing record, 1975, with the Scherbelberger Musikanten and the Radio GDR entertainment orchestra, recording of the public event on May 15, 1974 in the Jessen / Elster district culture house, AMIGA - 8 45 113
  • Günter Hansel, Manfred Uhlig - An old love , long-playing record, 1979, with the Scherbelberger Musikanten and the Radio GDR entertainment orchestra, recording of the public event on November 7, 1978 in the Volkshaus Lommatzsch, AMIGA - 8 45 172

literature

  • Manfred Uhlig and Rolf Garmhausen: City names crazy - A humorous explanation of how cities got their names , Sargans-Weltbuch, 2014, ISBN 978-3-906212-13-5

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Manfred Uhlig in conversation with Ulrich Griebel in the show As yesterday today was from June 18, 1996 on MDR KULTUR
  2. ↑ Bernd Locker: Old love doesn't rust - Manfred Uhlig - a real little Saxon and a great entertainer turns 80 in: Leipziger Volkszeitung from September 1, 2007, p. 12
  3. ↑ Ralph Schermann: How Görlitz "really" got its name - 40 years ago Manfred Uhlig gave the city a connection to England on the radio show "Alte Liebe". , Sächsische Zeitung Online, December 26, 2011
  4. ↑ Sächsische Zeitung online, December 30, 2015 discovered tapes for "Alte Liebe nicht rostet"
  5. ↑ Knut Berger: When people preferred to go to the West - 25 years ago today, Eppendorf should be the focus of the radio show "Alte Liebe does not rust". But even though everything was perfectly prepared, the event was canceled. in: Freie Presse / Freiberger Zeitung, on December 8, 2014
  6. ↑ Sabine Kreuz: What does Manfred Uhlig actually do? - Interview in: Leipziger Volkszeitung , November 8, 2000, p. 19
  7. ↑ Audio to listen to the breakdown under search term: Alte Liebe