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The Deutschlandsender Kultur (DS Kultur) was a radio station that emerged from radio programs of the radio of the German Democratic Republic immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall . It broadcast from June 16, 1990 to December 31, 1993 from Berlin.

history

After the collapse of the GDR at the end of 1989, the Unification Treaty regulated the liquidation of GDR radio. In order to give a voice to the democratic awakening of the GDR, the interim solution was DS Kultur , a largely apolitical 24-hour program specializing in culture and science. It emerged from the editorial offices of the two GDR broadcasters, Deutschlandsender and Radio DDR II , and broadcast from the East Berlin radio station Nalepastraße . Its editor-in-chief was the Berlin journalist Monika Künzel , her deputy was Stefan Amzoll, a GDR-critical music editor of Radio DDR II. Künzel initially had 140 employees. At a press conference shortly after the start of the station, she cautiously described its future as "not hopeless".

DS Kultur broadcast from Block A of the broadcasting house. Special broadcasts for long wave were produced in Studio K 2, and the round table discussions later took place in Studio K 13.

While a "radio transfer agreement" existed for RIAS and Deutschlandfunk after reunification, there was no legal regulation for the continued existence of DS Kultur. According to the unification agreement dated October 3, 1990, the station (as the successor to the GDR State Broadcasting Corporation) was threatened with extinction immediately after its start. To prevent this, a board of trustees was formed and a "round table" was convened. After a series of layoffs and the loss of frequencies, DS Kultur then temporarily came under the joint umbrella of the West broadcasting chains ARD and ZDF and on January 1, 1994, together with the cultural program of the West Berlin -American RIAS, was included on Deutschlandradio . The core editorial teams were divided between the broadcasting houses of DeutschlandRadio Berlin and Deutschlandfunk in Cologne.

See also

  • Broadcasting of the GDR
  • Radio-Kurier (PDF; 709 kB) from January 1, 2012, p. 16 ff.
  • Inga Hoff: Radio after the turning point: The integration of East Germany after reunification through the Second German Television, Deutschlandradio and Deutsche Welle . Diplomatica Verlag, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-8428-5802-2
  • Peter Marchal: Culture and program history of public radio in the Federal Republic of Germany . Kopaed, Munich 2004, Vol. 2, ISBN 978-3-938028-10-0

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From 1971 to 1990 the German station was called the voice of the GDR
  2. ↑ Lucky Bag for the Discerning - Ten Years of Deutschlandradio . Time Questions, January 1, 2004, broadcast manuscript RTF text
  3. ↑ From August 1989 Monika Künzel was deputy head of the radio play department, which worked for all GDR stations.
  4. ^ Press conference on October 30, 1990, Berliner Zeitung of October 31, 1990, p. 9
  5. ↑ About us: DS culture . GermanyRadio
  6. ↑ Otto Köhler: wave robber Biedenkopf . In: Die Zeit , No. 3/1992
  7. ↑ RIAS 1 was the RIAS cultural program. The last program director of the RIAS, Siegfried Buschschlüter, played a key role in the merger
  8. ↑ From then on, Deutschlandfunk from Cologne also belonged to Deutschlandradio .