Critical diary

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The Critical Diary was a weekday radio broadcast by Westdeutscher Rundfunk . It was broadcast on WDR 3 from 1967 to the end of 2003 , most recently from 7:05 p.m., ran for almost half an hour and was considered the flagship of intellectual time criticism on ARD. In the Critical Diary, current political and cultural issues were put to the test, in an often biting, rarely satirical form.

Emergence

The show was founded by Marianne Lienau and Hanno Reuther and ran for the first time on April 3, 1967 in the evening program. The program, which was initially characterized by feuilletonism , developed into an educational, sophisticated radio magazine on culture, business and politics. The authors of the show included Alice Schwarzer , Claudia Wolff , Walter Boehlich , Otto Köhler and Daniel Cohn-Bendit . For many years the broadcast lasted 20 minutes, followed by 5 minutes of intellectual literary criticism; This column was called Opinions on Books and was often used by the authors of the Critical Diary, but by a different editorial team.

The self-presentation of the program in 2000 was:

A journalistic trademark of WDR for 30 years: bulky and angular, the “Critical Diary” scrutinizes political events, cultural trends and educational issues. Opinion is required, controversy is welcome. Here the moderator does not moderate, but rather intensifies!

abolition

In 2004, as part of a program reform, the WDR gave up the brand Critical Diary and the literary criticism that was fused with it, reduced the half hour to a quarter of an hour and called it day signs . Critics saw this as the beginning of a politically and culturally demanding program to be dismantled. In retrospect, the station itself called the Critical Diary a “renowned show” in 2009. The day signal ran on weekdays from 7.45pm to 8.00pm and lasted only four years; In the course of a further program reform, the broadcast was discontinued on August 29, 2008, the moderator of this last day signal was Wolfgang Stenke. The WDR thus abolished its only platform for current criticism of the time that went far beyond political commentary. A verbatim broadcast called Politikum , created by WDR as the “successor” of the Critical Diary and Day Sign, runs on the service wave WDR 5 and no longer has much in common with the original broadcast in terms of form and content.

Critical Diary Moderators (selection)

Marianne Lienau, Hanno Reuther, Eberhard Rondholz , Jürgen Keimer, Wolfgang Korruhn , Helga Kirchner , Lothar Fend, Gabriele Gillen , Beatrix Novy, Wolfgang Stenke, Björn Blaschke, Hubert Maessen

The day signs moderated among others, Richard David Precht

Audio samples of the day signs

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the ARD: April 3, 1967
  2. ↑ WDR 3 press kit on program reform 2004 ( Memento of December 6, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 828 kB)
  3. ↑ "The changes made to WDR cultural radio over the past ten years already mean a major weakening: the political feature pages of the Critical Diary have been deleted, shortened, dismantled or outsourced ..." Quoted from Die Radioretter, Initiative für Kultur im Rundfunk , March 2012
  4. ↑ Press release on the occasion of the farewell to long-time editor and moderator of the Critical Diary, Helga Kirchner