Radio play cinema under the starry sky
Radio play cinema under the starry sky is a series of radio play productions organized by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in the region's planetariums . This series of events has existed since 1995 and was brought into being by the then Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg .
The initiator and inventor is the media and economist Dr. Lutz Oehmichen , who assumed that community listening as a cultural technique only works particularly well if the eyes are also offered a corresponding stimulus. For example, he used the “starry sky in the planetarium” as a medium for listening together, thereby expanding the habit of receiving radio plays. In addition, Oehmichen developed a uniform dramaturgical concept for the performance of radio plays in planetariums. This new consumption habit, namely listening together while watching the simulated planetary course, defines the media product "radio play cinema under the starry sky".
In the meantime (2015) the series of events is carried out by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg with the support of Hörverlag and has over 240,000 visitors. The venues are the Zeiss Großplanetarium Berlin and the Planetarium am Insulaner in Berlin-Schöneberg. In summer there are regular open air events. These have already taken place on Berlin's Museum Island, in the Schlossgarten of Charlottenburg Palace and in the Britzer Garten. The record number of visitors to the open air events was 1,350 in the palace gardens of Charlottenburg Palace in 2005.
As part of this series of events, radioeins (rbb) has been awarding the → radioeins radio-play cinema audience award once a year since 2002 .