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DT64 was the youth program of the GDR radio and an essential element of youth culture in the GDR . Founded in 1964, DT64 became an independent transmitter in 1986, which existed until May 1993. The next station is called MDR Sputnik .

history

Time in the GDR until 1989

prehistory

In 1959, Radio DDR formed the Junge Welle editorial team . You belonged to three groups of stations: youth radio, children's radio DDR and Aus dem Butzemannhaus (preschool program). On December 1, 1961, the Junge Welle began with the Evening of Youth ; every Friday from 6:00 p.m. to 6:55 p.m. and from 7:20 p.m. to 8:40 p.m. on Radio DDR I. A colorful magazine program with youth topics (politics, culture, sport, leisure) and a lot of “youth-friendly” music; often also monothematic. As a rule, they were original broadcasts from one or more places in the GDR - from cities, villages or youth clubhouses.

Music editor Klaus Schneider (also head of the Jenaer Oldtimers, who moved from the Weimar broadcaster to Berlin) tried to create a youth music program that was popular for the time.

When the German meeting came within reach in 1964 , the special studio DT64 was set up at the suggestion of Radio DDR with the support of the youth editors of the Berliner Rundfunk and Deutschlandsender as well as other employees, as described below. Since this program was so well received, inquiries came from young people and also from the FDJ Central Council to the management of the State Broadcasting Committee as to whether a similar program could be broadcast daily. First the management of Radio DDR was asked whether they would be willing to do so. However, she declined because she had already worked out a concept for redesigning the GDR radio program and a constant youth program did not fit into the concept. Finally, the Berliner Rundfunk took up this offer. On June 29, 1964, the official DT64 program began. Thus, the Junge Welle can be seen as the forerunner of DT64 with the Evening of Youth .

DT64

DT64 was for Germany Meeting of Youth (1964 D erm T reef 19 64 ) in East Berlin as launched "special club meeting Germany 1964". In May 1964 this broadcast 99 hours without interruption for the participants of the meeting a program with international music and with a high proportion of live music.

Later, the Berliner Rundfunk took over the "DT64 youth studio" for the entire GDR on medium wave and VHF . It was the first radio program in the GDR that was specifically aimed at “the youth”. At the 11th plenum of the SED Central Committee (December 16-18, 1965), Erich Honecker criticized : “For a long time, DT64 had one-sidedly propagated beat music in its music program . In the broadcasts of the youth broadcaster, the questions of the all-round education and knowledge of young people ... were ignored in an unacceptable manner. "

In 1976 the "DT64 youth concerts" began. From September 1, 1981, a regular evening program started between 7pm and midnight together with the youth radio of the voice of the GDR . At the beginning the program could only be heard in Berlin , later also in the entire GDR.

After the establishment of its own GDR-wide FM transmitter chain, DT64 became an independent transmitter on March 7, 1986, which could be received from 1 p.m. to midnight. In December 1987 the program was expanded to 20 hours a day. The program started at 4 a.m. with the dressing gown . On Saturdays there were international hits with the charts from Germany , Great Britain and the USA ( hit globe with Lutz Bertram ). The program Duett - Music for the recorder , which played more or less current records in full and thus enabled recording, was also popular, which was also wanted by the radio. Special programs such as the tendency hard to heavy , maxi hour (Sundays 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.) and electronics were also very popular. The latter program was moderated by Olaf Zimmermann , who still moderates a similar program with the Elektro Beats on Radio Eins . In the alternative area , the Parocktikum program with Lutz Schramm was of great importance for the presentation of musicians from the GDR and around the world.

Peaceful revolution

On October 2, 1989, connections to the New Forum were established in a protocol of the Ministry for State Security . One day later, the GDR closed the border with the ČSSR and another day later, Herman van Veen said on the transmitter: “I'll sing away the wall”. During the tense political situation before the turning point and the peaceful revolution , DT64 reported on the Monday demonstrations .

Less than a month later, on November 8, 1989, the station's staff expressed their mistrust of their management and parts of the public reading of the book Difficulties with the Truth by Walter Janka were reproduced. Two days later, the Morgenrock broadcast from West Berlin's Kurfürstendamm , and first contacts began with the SFB , with which the first joint German-German radio program was broadcast on November 20th.

The time from 1990

From April 1, 1990, DT64 was on air around the clock under editor-in-chief Michael Schiewack - under the motto "Power from the East Side". Together with SDR 3 , the longest hit parade in the world, Top 2000 D , started on August 17, 1990 with 2000 songs chosen by the listeners; the show ran for nine days. Winning song was Sinéad O'Connor's song Nothing Compares 2 U .

On September 7, 1990, the frequencies outside Berlin were handed over to the RIAS without prior notice . After massive protests by listeners (especially in Berlin , Dresden and Neubrandenburg ), all frequencies were returned to DT64 the next day.

After the unification of the two German states, the youth radio DT64 was continued as a program in accordance with Article 36 of the Unification Treaty (Broadcasting Transition Act). Corresponding programs either had to be transferred to public institutions (e.g. DS Kultur ) or processed by the end of 1991 at the latest .

In May 1991, during the "DT64 Hitkarawane" was built at the Technical University of Chemnitz , the association Friends of the youth radio DT64 e. V. , who advocated the preservation of the station. The impending shutdown led to protests throughout the former GDR, including in Leipzig , Dresden , Halle , Schwerin , Potsdam and Altenburg . Even in the west of the new Federal Republic of Germany, groups of friends formed where the station could still be received well near the former border. B. in Braunschweig . The uncertainties about the continuation continued and so did the demonstrations for the preservation of the station. DT64 was one of the first German radio stations to play techno music ( on Marusha's show Dancehall ). Mayday (the largest indoor rave in Germany), which still takes place annually today, was created in 1991 as an action initiated by Fabian Lenz and his brother Maximilian Lenz alias WestBam to rescue DT64. On November 16, 1991, 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets in Dresden alone. On December 20, 1991, celebrities designed the youth channel's program to show their solidarity with the program. The moderators included Tamara Danz , Angelika Weiz , Regine Hildebrandt , Günther Fischer , Gregor Gysi , Günter Gaus and many others.

In the Bundestag on December 12, 1991, a motion for a resolution for the receipt of DT64 was discussed, but rejected. In the evening, explained Magdeburg the MDR -Hörfunkdirektorin Carola Sommerey the willingness of the MDR to radiate the transmitter half a year on the previous frequencies. On December 31, 1991, the broadcasting of the station ended for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania because the NDR was not ready to broadcast. In the ORB area , DT64's program was interrupted from January 1, 1992 between 3 and 6 p.m. for the new ORB youth radio Rockradio B. In the following months, Rockradio B continued to expand its program. On January 25, 1992, a rock marathon took place in the Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle for the preservation of DT64. Among other things, the crashing carrier pigeons , Big Savod And The Deep Manko and Freygang were there. A “special train to Pankow” started from Leipzig's main train station and was rented by fans from Saxony. The train was dispatched by Udo Lindenberg .

On June 15, 1992, the MDR decided to transmit DT64 on medium wave 1044 kHz from July and to end the VHF broadcast. The previous FM chain from DT64 in the MDR transmission area was to serve private radio from July 1, 1992. The three broadcasting chains made available to the MDR by politicians were already in use. The decision was limited to the end of 1992. The transmitter fought on and asked its listeners to report wherever reception was possible. Confirmations came from Ireland , London , Prague , Tyrol , Corsica , Sweden and Hungary , among others . On June 19, 1992, DT64 aired a commercial parody called Superradio 2000 O for twelve hours . The program makers gave the listener an exaggerated foretaste of what to expect on the frequencies from July 1, 1992.

The last song on VHF was on December 31, 1991 when the frequencies in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania were switched off at midnight, and on June 30, 1992, 7 p.m. in Berlin / Brandenburg or at midnight on the remaining frequencies Gut Nacht von Lutz Kerschowski's Blankenfelder Boogie Band.

On November 30, 1992 the Broadcasting Council of the MDR “ approved” the plans of the artistic director Udo Reiter to continue broadcasting the station on medium wave from 1993 onwards and to broadcast it on satellite in perspective under a new name. On January 18, 1993, the Broadcasting Council decided to move the station's production to Halle . From March 1, 1993, the station began broadcasting on Astra 1B , initially on a test basis . 18 days later, the Junge Union requested that DT64 be switched off.

Fury t-shirt "Radio Orchid" from 1993

The Hanover-based band Fury in the Slaughterhouse took in early 1993 with their song Radio Orchid (from the album Mono ) regarding the banishment to a medium wave frequency and pass the planned broadcasting via satellite: During the 1993 Tour were at the merchandising -Ständen T-shirts with labeled “Radio Orchid - 1044 kHz”.

On May 1st, 1993 the time of DT64 ended with the renaming to Sputnik . The new name was a suggestion by Kurt Biedenkopf , the then Prime Minister of Saxony. The slogan of the new Sputnik , like many other broadcasters, is simply the best music. And zero advertising.

On March 10, 1999, the MDR registered the rights to the name and logo of DT64 as a word / image mark .

On October 21, 2016, the word and figurative mark DT64 was taken over by Antenne MV GmbH & Co. KG.

Well-known moderators and speakers

See also

literature

  • Author collective [Axel Blumentritt u. a.]: 10 years young: DT 64 . In: State Committee for Broadcasting at the Council of Ministers of the GDR (ed.): Contributions to the history of broadcasting. Series of publications of the GDR radio . No. 1/1974 . Verlag des Lektorats Rundfunkgeschichte, Berlin April 10, 1974, p. 6-37 .
  • Andreas Ulrich, Jörg Wagner (eds.): DT 64. The book on youth radio 1964–1993. Thom, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-9803346-0-0 .
  • Brand is alliance: The example of DT64. In: Oliver Errichiello, Arnd Zschiesche : Success Secret East. Survival strategies from the best brands - and what managers can learn from them. Gabler Verlag, 2009. ISBN 978-3-8349-1615-0 , pp. 58-60.
  • Thomas Gaevert : DT64 - The youth radio from the East 1964-1991. State Center for Political Education Thuringia and the Federal Foundation for the Processing of the SED Dictatorship, Erfurt 2018, ISBN 978-3-946939-29-0 .

Film documentaries

The 50-minute documentary Jugendradio DT64 by Rainer Hällfritzsch and Ulrike Hemberger was released on video cassette . Chronicle of an announced settlement ; Content: The film depicts the imaginative battle for the popular station from September 1991 to spring 1992.

  • Press reviews:
    • The film "is also a film about the young people, their culture and identity ... which shows that there is more to it than the receipt of DT64." ( Der Tagesspiegel , May 6, 1992)
    • "In the hot autumn of December '91, the radio station became the engine of a movement, among whose activists the video 'Jugendradio DT64' is likely to achieve cult status." ( Berliner Zeitung . May 6, 1992)
    • “In the 50 minute strip it becomes clear that youth radio is about East German heart and soul. One lesson that 'in the new society you can get things done on the street' [quote from a film] was the interim success of the Friends of DT64. "( Die tageszeitung , May 6, 1992)

Radio documentaries

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ History of Sputnik at iskra.earthtribe.de ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iskra.earthtribe.de
  2. ↑ Junge Union: DT64 no longer broadcast . ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Bernburger Zeitung , March 25, 1993 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.iskra.earthtribe.de
  3. ↑ Information on the brand  "Jugendradio DT64" in the register of the German Patent and Trademark Office (DPMA)
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