The silencer
The sound absorber was a radio program designed by Axel Corti , which was broadcast on Sundays between May 4, 1969 and December 26, 1993, initially on Ö3 and later on Ö1 .
The series was initially announced as a "satirical program with Axel Corti", but soon developed into a kind of " radio news section ". The sonorous voice of Corti interrupted the mostly music-oriented program of Ö3 and seemed, if perhaps not in the same way as “ Die Musicbox ” on the afternoon event, like a foreign body. Corti said the shipment was a kind of cashier , a smuggled message from a prisoner.
Topics were as common to the journalistic form of commentary and feature articles common to many and withdrew from everyday observation about special moments during the filming of Cortis films (about to Radetzkymarsch weeks before his death in 1993) to the political culture in Austria. The show also lived from the incomparable voice of Corti and the catchy, very jazzy-looking identifier composed by Bert Breit (instrumentation: synthesizer, drums and bass). The voice of Ernst Grissemann , which announced the program title, was placed over the identifier .
The program and its concept became so familiar to the Austrian radio audience over the course of time that in the late 1980s and early 1990s an Austrian general importer of a Japanese car brand had a series of radio advertisements run on Ö3 with the words "The shock absorber" began and in less than half a minute, in the style of the "silencer", touted the advantages of the advertised car. The spots ended, just like their role model, with the words: "That was the shock absorber."
Two days before Corti's death, the last edition of the silencer was broadcast on Ö1's program. Corti dealt with Rabbi Hillel . A short time later it became known that almost all of the tape recordings made by the ORF had been deleted. With the help of private tapes, at least a few CDs with editions of the silencer could be preserved for posterity. In 2018, the widow Corti handed over the recordings of all silencer programs to the ORF multimedia archive. These were transferred to the digital long-term archive of the ORF via digitization.
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“... the point glossomania typical of Ö3 is entering a new, more mature stage. Here, topics 'that one cannot wallow around' are lively interpreted and varied in the style of spontaneous improvisation on an intellectual keyboard. Suspicious nonsense that goes in the ear despite the silencer. Vital dummy of superficial talk that tries in vain to hide deliberate judgments "
Web links
Programs in the Austrian Media Library :
- The silencer - you must have been to the bottom . Axel Corti on Rabbi Hillel (last broadcast on December 26, 1993).
- The silencer . Axel Corti on the death of Stephan Koren and the Austrian year of reflection in 1988 (broadcast on February 21, 1988).
- Nikolaus Scholz: Axel Corti - bringing quality to the station in a treacherous manner. Ö1, August 1, 2003, archived from the original on April 19, 2016 ; accessed on October 11, 2017 .
- Declaration of love to the radio Article from September 17, 2004 on oe1.orf.at.
- The silencer liner notes for a CD edition of texts and recordings from Axel Cortis' Ö3 series Der silencer by Walter Gröbchen.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ö1 broadcast Chronicler Reporter Enlightenment , part 2., article about Axel Corti. Broadcast on March 3, 2002 on Demokratiezentrum.org (Kassiber). Accessed September 30, 2017
- ^ Doris Metz: Reviews. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. December 1994, accessed August 18, 2009 .
- ↑ That was the silencer - by Axel Corti ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The radio review: Good news . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna June 3, 1969, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
