The day (radio broadcast)

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Nine members of the editorial team,
back row from left:
Florian Schwinn , Karen Fuhrmann, Oliver Glaap, Rainer Dachselt, Angela Fitsch;
front row (from left):
Birgit Spielmann, Markus Hürtgen, Ulrich Sonnenschein, Bernd Seidel

The day is a monothematic radio background broadcast by Hessischer Rundfunk (hr), which is broadcast Monday to Friday from 6:05 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in hr2-kultur and is repeated from 10:05 p.m. in hr-info . The program sees itself as a political feature section and, as a TV show, is aimed at a group of listeners interested in food for thought. The format received several awards.

history

The first episode of the series was broadcast on June 3, 1996 on hr1 , the then information radio of Hessischer Rundfunk. The moderator was Ulrich Manz , who had also helped develop the program. It was created jointly by the political and cultural editors.

As a result of a fundamental change in the program sequence in hr1 planned for 2004, Der Tag was broadcast live in both hr1 and hr2 between June 28 and July 16, 2004 to help the listeners get used to it, and from July 19, 2004 only in hr2 . The feared discontinuation of the series in the spring of 2004 had led to a nationwide signature campaign under the motto " Save your radio ".

concept

The day is dedicated to an acutely or latently current topic, but also sets its own accents. The series is characterized by the fact that the topic of the daily program is not only depicted, but is turned in one or the other direction and occasionally exaggerated - in each case with the aim of broadening the perspective of the topic and thus the audience to offer a variety of new perspectives, arguments and approaches. The day is therefore a dramaturgically designed program that works with all radiophonic forms, i. H. with conversations (live and recorded beforehand), reports , reports , glosses and “ ornaments ” from literature , poetry and poetry , cabaret and radio play . Every program is an offer to the listener to form his own opinion and to think differently for once - be it more profound, more analytical, more profound or from a different perspective. Based on the broad concept of culture from hr2-kultur, the day therefore focuses on the following topics: current affairs , politics and society , economy , work , education , science and media , culture / cultural politics and religions .

The format is (as of March 2017) moderated alternately by Uwe Berndt, Angela Fitsch, Karen Fuhrmann, Oliver Glaap, Barbara Pieroth, Doris Renck, Claudia Sautter and Florian Schwinn . Former presenters of the show included Bettina Freitag, Jörg Hafkemeyer , Ulrich Manz, Gert Scobel , Uwe Westphal and Peter Zudeick .

The editors, together with the moderators, usually on the day before the broadcast of a program, select the topic and the "central theme" and create a daily distribution message. Based on this content-related dramaturgy, the editors select the interviewees. This includes experts from politics, science, business, society and other areas of public and private life, as well as specialist editors from Hessischer Rundfunk. Even witnesses , "Mavericks" and people with other personal proximity to the subject often have their say. Intensive preliminary discussions help to convey the editorial team's motives for the selection of a certain topic to the discussion partners and to integrate them into the "common thread". The most important selection criterion for all interlocutors is therefore their willingness to open up new perspectives and facets, to point out positions, to present new findings and to shed light on the background.

The editors also make the decision about the "ornaments". They have different functions, e.g. B. those of "pausing", "sharpening", "exaggerating" up to ironic breaks in a program idea .

reception

The broadcasts can be accessed live on the radio (hr2-kultur, time-shifted in hr-iNFO), as an audio stream, as a podcast and can be downloaded from the hr2-kultur website. The podcast calls from Der Tag have for years taken the top position of all such offers of the Hessischer Rundfunk and the ARD Mediathek / ARD Audiothek .

Awards

In 2006, Der Tag won the first prize of the Otto Brenner Prize for critical journalism. In 2013, the special prize of the jury of the Robert Geisendörfer Prize for "the uniqueness of this political radio column" followed. The jury wrote: "While the radio stations all around are broadcasting more and more of the same, the editorial staff of Der Tag at hr makes a daily broadcast that uses the speed of the radio medium to provide comprehensive and in-depth information on current topics."

In 2016, the editorial team was awarded the Aeternitas media prize and the META , the media ethics award from the Stuttgart Media University , in the radio category. The university's laudation emphasized that the “many different perspectives, assessments and opinions” in the program on the subject of “Algorithms, Robots, Hybrid Teams - Working World 4.0” gave “the listener the opportunity to get a comprehensive picture of the future of work and to form an opinion about it. ”Also in 2016, Der Tag was nominated for the Civis Prize in the“ Long Programs ” category. In 2017, the editorial team was then honored with the Civis Prize for the program “Limits to Enlightenment - Right Violence and Justice”.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former campaign “Save your radio” , accessed on May 19, 2011.
  2. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung : "HR checks receipt of the renowned program 'Der Tag'" from May 25, 2004, accessed on October 17, 2012.
  3. ↑ Editor Der Tag: The day turns 15 - a request concert. (MP3; 50.6 MB) hr2-kultur, June 1, 2011, accessed on June 3, 2011 (list of all presenters in the opening credits of the anniversary program for the 15th birthday of the series).
  4. ↑ Journal Frankfurt : “Robert Geisendörfer Prize. hr2-The day is honored ” from June 12, 2013, accessed on the same day.
  5. ↑ University of the Media: HdM students give Media Ethics Award. In: www.hdm-stuttgart.de. June 16, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016 .
  6. ↑ CIVIS nominations 2016.