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Du holde Kunst is a poetry and music show on Austrian radio that is currently broadcast every Sunday at 8:15 a.m. on Ö1 . The broadcast is repeated on the following day at 12:05 a.m. The title was taken from the opening verse of Franz Schubert's poem An die Musik by Franz von Schober .
Founded in 1945 , it is the oldest regularly broadcast radio program on the ORF . The aim of the program, which was initially launched and produced by Rot-Weiß-Rot in Salzburg , the station of the American occupation forces, was to provide the audience shattered by the war and the immediate post-war confusion with the "most beautiful and noble creations" of literature and Bringing music close. This should help to drive the "filth of war" out of hearts. Lyrical aesthetics should convey a kind of escape from the harsh everyday life, but also express the "longing for a brighter and more beautiful world". In 1967 " Du Holde Kunst " was taken over by Ö1. In the course of its history, the program has repeatedly been threatened with discontinuation, most recently during the Ö1 reform in 1998. Critics emphasized that it was old-fashioned, but its high number of regular listeners spoke in favor of keeping it.
The speakers for the first broadcast were Martha Marbo and Helmut Janatsch . The content of the program, initially broadcast as a live broadcast, includes lyrical texts spoken by well-known actors such as Peter Matić or (in archive records) Axel Corti , Albin Skoda or Paula Wessely , which can be classified under a theme, such as the seasons and other recurring events . The titles of programs were for example: "When the snow falls on the window" and "Three kings on the way and the star everywhere". Classical instrumental music is played between the text lectures.