Old and new home

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Alte und neue Heimat was a weekly radio broadcast on WDR 5 . It was broadcast for the first time on October 17, 1953 by the then Cologne studio of the NWDR . It dealt with a wide range of topics related to politics, culture and history of the "enlarged" Europe with special consideration of the Central and Eastern European states. Originating was old and the new home from a mission that in the post-war period to the many expellees turned and they had brought messages from their "homeland". Most recently, the show was more of a magazine with a focus on Central and Eastern Europe. She addressed all listeners, not just displaced persons or their descendants.

Alte und neue Heimat was broadcast on Sundays from 9:20 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. The programs were directed by individual moderators.

In 2013, the program was renamed Eastern Europe Magazine and until it was discontinued on December 27, 2015, it was broadcast on Sundays from 8:05 a.m. to 8:40 a.m., repeated on the following Monday evening after 11 p.m.

content

The broadcast was based on reports . There were frequent reports about neighboring Poland ; The focus was by no means on topicality , but on the relationship to the former German eastern regions (particularly Silesia, the Danzig area and East Prussia). Otherwise, reports were mainly on the Baltic states , ( White ) Russia , Ukraine , the Czech Republic , Slovakia and on states that emerged from the former Yugoslavia , in particular Slovenia and Croatia . Frequent regions were Silesia , Warsaw and Moscow .

Traditional music from an Eastern European country (mostly Poland or Russia) played between the contributions .

popularity

The magazine show was quite popular and was one of the most listened to programs on WDR 5.

criticism

Few - mostly older - listeners criticized the fact that too much was broadcast on "soft topics". "Heavy topics" would have found their place less often.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From January 2016: The new WDR 5. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 7, 2016 ; accessed on January 7, 2016 .
  2. ↑ The WDR wants to modernize its radio waves. Retrieved December 10, 2012 .