Nuntii Latini

Nuntii Latini ("Latin News") is the title of several Latin news programs on the radio.

Yle

The Finnish radio station Yleisradio broadcast Nuntii Latini from September 1, 1989 to June 2019 on YLE Radio 1 every Friday at 6.15 p.m.

The programs on current topics from all over the world are entirely in Latin and read out alternately by a speaker. The editorial office is located in Helsinki , the editors of the offer are Tuomo Pekkanen , professor emeritus at Jyväskylä University , and Reijo Pitkäranta, lecturer at the University of Helsinki , both members of the Academia Latinitati Fovendae based in Rome . In order to be able to translate current topics, in addition to classical Latin, the Latin of the Middle Ages and modern times is also used. Terms like “electronic document” become documentum electronicum , “rapid reaction troops” become cohortes reactionis rapidae and “ cruise missiles ” become missilia circumvagantia .

The news is also made available on the Internet as a podcast under the name Audi Nuntios Latinos per interrete . From 1992 to 1999 the editors and the Finnish Literary Society submitted one year's contributions in print.

The show had around 40,000 listeners worldwide.

In June 2019, Nuntii Latini was discontinued due to a lack of resources.

Vatican News

At Vatican News (formerly: Radio Vatikan ) the theologian and canon lawyer Gero P. Weishaupt has been translating selected reports from the German editorial team every Tuesday since 2004. The text offer is one of the most frequently accessed pages on the German editorial team's website. Since June 8, 2019, the format Hebdomada Papae - The Week of the Pope has also been available as a five-minute weekly broadcast on the station's linear VHF program and as a podcast . The offer is prepared by the Vatican State Secretariat, which is also responsible for the official translations of Vatican documents into Latin.

Radio Bremen

Radio Bremen has broadcast monthly news in Latin since 2001 under the title Nuntii Latini . Until 2017, the program was supervised by classical philologists and teachers from Bremen and Bremerhaven in cooperation with the program manager of the (then) north-west radio Jörg-Dieter Kogel . “Due to lack of time and age” the program was interrupted at the end of 2017, but returned in November 2018 and has since been broadcast at the end of each month on Bremen Zwei and distributed as a podcast . The monthly Latin news is selected by the head of the culture department, Stephan Cartier, and translated by a new editorial team of younger Latin teachers and then set to music by an editor from Bremen Zwei.

Radio FREI in Erfurt

Radio FREI in Erfurt has been broadcasting a quarter of an hour a week in Latin (“Erfordia Latina”) since July 2015. Since January 2019, the programs can only be heard every other week (even calendar weeks, Wednesdays at 4 p.m.) on VHF and on the Internet.

literature

Hansjörg Biener: Radio news in Latin . In: Radio-Kurier 7/2018, p. 19.
Tuomo Pekkanen, Reijo Pitkäranta: Nuntii Latini. Volume I-V (1989-1999 complectitur). Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, Helsinki 1992/99.
John Tagliabue: Latin Makes an Appearance on Finnish Radio. News at VI. In: The New York Times. April 8, 2013, p. A8 ( online ).

Web links

Nuntii Latini in Finland - on YLE 1
- Glossarium programmatis - glossary of modern terms translated into Latin
Nuntii Latini - on Bremen Zwei (with podcast and German translation)
- Nuntiorum Archivum - near Bremen Zwei (until 2017)
Nuntii Latini and Hebdomada Papae - at Vatican News
Nuntii Latini Vasintonienses - at Western Washington University

Individual evidence

^ Rudolf Hermann: Finland's radio is at the end of Latin. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2019 .
^ Ari Meriläinen: News in Latin - created by fluke and lasted thirty years. Yleisradio, June 11, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2019 .
^ ^A ^b Hebdomada Papae: New broadcast in Latin. Vatican News, June 6, 2019, accessed June 23, 2019 .
^ Kai Ludwig: Latin from the Vatican. In: Radio News. RBB Radio Eins, June 11, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2019 .
↑ kna: News in Latin now also on Radio Bremen - Vatican News. In: Vatican News . Retrieved December 12, 2018 .
↑ Felicitas Boeselager: Latin podcast on Radio Bremen. When you laugh at the same jokes as you did 2000 years ago. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de . January 31, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019 .

[1] Rudolf Hermann: Finland's radio is at the end of Latin. In: nzz.ch. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2019 .

[2] Ari Meriläinen: News in Latin - created by fluke and lasted thirty years. Yleisradio, June 11, 2019, accessed on July 5, 2019 .

[:0-3] A ^b Hebdomada Papae: New broadcast in Latin. Vatican News, June 6, 2019, accessed June 23, 2019 .

[4] Kai Ludwig: Latin from the Vatican. In: Radio News. RBB Radio Eins, June 11, 2019, accessed on June 23, 2019 .

[5] : News in Latin now also on Radio Bremen - Vatican News. In: Vatican News . Retrieved December 12, 2018 .

[6] Felicitas Boeselager: Latin podcast on Radio Bremen. When you laugh at the same jokes as you did 2000 years ago. In: deutschlandfunkkultur.de . January 31, 2019, accessed February 5, 2019 .