The radio family

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The Radio Family was an Austrian radio soap opera that was broadcast from February 2, 1952 for more than eight years until June 25, 1960. It ran in 351 half-hour episodes on the US occupation broadcaster Rot-Weiß-Rot and from 1955 on Austrian radio .

history

The series was developed by Jörg Mauthe and Peter Weiser , who worked as permanent authors and formed the "Script Department" of the station Rot-Weiß-Rot; Directed by Walter Davy . Ingeborg Bachmann , who came to the station in 1951, worked on the popular series, conceived in autumn 1951, as an author until the summer of 1953, when she moved to Rome : 11 broadcast manuscripts came from her, two more are joint works by Bachmann and Mauthe and Weiser. (Bachmann never spoke about this activity and did not include her contributions in her catalog raisonné. Von Mauthe, who died in 1986, is also not known to have made any statements about this; Weiser mentioned Bachmann's collaboration from the 1990s onwards.)

In the subtle to liberalism and democracy educating mission of the everyday life of bourgeois Viennese family Floriani in the fictional "Taubengasse" was close to the center-side edge of the middle-class district ostensibly Josefstadt existing Landesgerichtsstraße shown. ( There is a Florianigasse at the regional court for criminal matters in Vienna , which could have served as a template for the family name.)

Permanent "family members" were

Also contributed to:

  • Peter Gerhard as the narrator, who accompanied every broadcast but did not become part of the plot,
  • Rosl Dorena as housekeeper Maria Gamsbartl,
  • Alfred Böhm as the caretaker's son Holzinger, friend of Wolferl Floriani.

Due to the great success of the first broadcasts, the frequency of the broadcasting was changed from fortnightly to weekly on August 30, 1952. The programs were broadcast on Saturday evenings.

The typescripts of almost all mailings were found in Jörg Mauthe's estate at the end of the 1990s, which has been kept by the Vienna Library in the City Hall , Department of Handwriting Collection, since 2008 .

Post fame

In 1958, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation took up the concept of the radio family for television with the monthly series Leitner Family .

In 2011, the Floriani family came back into the public eye when a book was published that revealed that Ingeborg Bachmann had written several episodes of the series. Under the title Ingeborg Bachmann: Die Radiofamilie , Suhrkamp Verlag published the manuscripts carefully edited and commented on by the American Germanist and historian Joseph McVeigh. As he wrote, McVeigh had already spoken to Peter Weiser in 2000 about the genesis of the show and the way the team of authors worked.

In 2013, the Volkstheater Wien put radio family episodes written by Ingeborg Bachmann on stage in its venues in the districts .

literature

  • Ingeborg Bachmann, Joseph McVeigh (eds.): Die Radiofamilie , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-518-42215-1
  • Jörg Mauthe, Peter Weiser: Floriani family. A Viennese curriculum vitae in thirty pictures , Wiener Journal Zeitschriftenverlag, Vienna 1990
  • Lena Nitsch: The Floriani radio family in: junk. Life a soap opera . Diploma thesis, University of Vienna, Vienna 2009 (Nitsch erroneously cites 1953 as the first year of the series)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Note in the second broadcast, the first written by Ingeborg Bachmann (see literature), on February 16, 1952
  2. ↑ Note in the second broadcast
  3. ↑ The production on the Volkstheater's website, premiere March 6, 2013 ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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.volkstheater.at
  4. ^ Bernhard Doppler: Post-war problems in Viennese language , website Deutschlandradio Kultur , text from March 6, 2013