Eldoradio (radio broadcast)

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Eldoradio was a lesbian and gay radio broadcast from Berlin . It went on air on August 12, 1985 and is considered the first gay radio program in Germany. Its name was derived from the legendary restaurant Eldorado .

history

In 1984, initially several gay men founded the association TOLLeranz! eV , which acted as the organizer of an initially weekly four-hour radio magazine for the then Berliner Kabelrat, the predecessor of Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg . The founding members of the association included Thomas Beier, Toni (Paul) Olbricht, Uwe F. Goetz and Thomas Jünemann. Lesbians soon joined the project.

In the course of the application for the VHF radio frequency 100.6 MHz, the sponsoring association created a cooperative whose task it was to acquire funds for more professional broadcasting operations and to act as the sponsor of the project.

First broadcasts

The first broadcasts took place as part of the radio mixed channel Hör1 in the Berlin cable pilot project . Only when the first private Berlin VHF frequency was assigned to Radio 100 (7:00 pm) and Hundred, 6:00 am (12:00 am–7:00 pm) was Eldoradio able to reach a larger audience and, above all, listeners in the former GDR .

From 1986 the program ran as part of the program of the left-wing alternative radio station Radio 100 . In 1988, on its three-year anniversary, Eldoradio was able to look back on 306 programs. At that time, according to taz, nine editors and five freelancers designed the program, which went on air twice a week (Sundays from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. and Wednesdays from 7:05 p.m. to 8 p.m.).

Authors and moderators

The authors and presenters of Eldoradio included Axel Schock , Manuela Kay , Joachim Schulte, Jürgen Bieniek († 2017) and Roland Grabowski († 2016).

The broadcasts were discontinued in 1991. An almost complete documentation of the programs is available in the archive of the Schwules Museum in Berlin.

revival

As part of the 30th anniversary of the start of broadcasting of Radio 100, there was a one-time, three-hour Eldoradio revival on VHF 88.4 MHz on March 4, 2017.

literature

  • 3rd anniversary of the 'Eldoradio'. In: taz , 23 August 1988.
  • Gail Johnson / Michael C. Keith: Queer Airwaves. The Story of Gay and Lesbian Broadcasting "(2001)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mourning for Jürgen Bieniek. In: queer.de. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ "Like the taz, only with more humor". In: taz.de. March 2, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Radio 100 goes back on the air. In: Radio Week. February 12, 2017. Retrieved April 4, 2017 .