Original radio play

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An original radio play is the result of a text or an acoustic sound composition and was originally conceived as a radio play for production and first publication . When it was created, it was tailored exclusively to the special media requirements and possibilities of this art form.

Demarcation

An adaptation or editing of other texts (e.g. plays , prose , poetry , film scripts, etc.) for publication as a radio play is not to be described as an original radio play. The slogan "The original radio play about the film", for example, does not describe an original radio play in this sense, but often means a by-product ( spin-off ) created from the soundtrack (or script) of a film .

A few decades ago, such an extra demarcation was not necessary, because - according to a recognized theory at the time - was generally with "radio play"

"[...] a self-contained and self-contained work originally written for the radio and performed in a one-off broadcast of usually thirty to ninety minutes - in rare extreme cases fifteen minutes to four hours - a predominantly linguistic work that was performed by the audience tries to produce an effect specific to art and which cannot exist in any other medium without decisive structural changes. "(Armin P. Frank: Das Hörspiel , 1963, p. 23.)

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publication

Original radio plays are usually published by radio , usually by public broadcasters, which are the largest clients of such productions. But the Internet and small editions of sound carriers also offer original radio play makers a distribution platform .

Awards

The most important award for original radio plays (in German-speaking countries) is the war blind radio play award . This is awarded every year "for an original radio play conceived and produced by a German-speaking broadcaster that realizes and expands the possibilities of the art form in an outstanding way" (statute of the prize).

Examples

The first original radio play in Europe is Richard Hughes' play Danger , which was first broadcast on January 15, 1924 by the BBC under the title A Comedy of Danger . The first German production was broadcast by Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) in Hamburg with Paul Ellmar , Edith Scholz and Karl Pündter on August 24, 1925. The specialty of the radio drama is that three people from a group touring a Welsh mine, after a disaster, of the The rest of the visitors had to endure separately, in absolute darkness, waiting for rescue. This means that the protagonists, as well as the listeners, are solely dependent on the voices and noises.

Another well-known example of an original radio play material is A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (German title Per Anhalter ins All ) by Douglas Adams . Adams first developed the material as a radio play series for the BBC in 1978. This original form of media publication was later followed by novels, TV and film scripts and other by-products. In contrast, the probably most famous radio play The war of the worlds by Orson Welles cannot be described as an original radio play, as it was a radio play adaptation of a novel by HG Wells .

Among the best-known original radio plays are probably the multi-part Paul Temple radio plays by the British author Francis Durbridge , which were produced by the BBC between 1938 and 1968 and were very successful in Great Britain , especially in the cast with Peter Coke and Marjorie Westbury . Between 1949 and 1968, 12 multi-part series of this series were produced and broadcast by the NWDR and the WDR in West Germany .