Radio Adria - a success story
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| Original title | Radio Adria - a success story |
| Country of production | Austria |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Harald Zilka |
| music | Nikolas Weber |
| camera | Wolfgang Rittinger, Ian Tognon, Ebehard Lösche, Karin Kirchner |
| cut | Harald Zilka |
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Josef Hader, Andy Woerz, Peter Tichatschek, Davide Tognon, Jean-André, Paul Vécsei, Christian Faltl, Manfred Selinger, Oliver Dunk, Susanne Ettenauer, Brigitte Fritz, Johann Fritz, Eckhart Köll, Gerhard Jelinek, Erhard Busek, Karl Blecha and others | |
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Radio Adria - A Success Story is an Austrian documentary film from 2018.
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From 1977–1991 the German-language holiday channel “ Radio Adria ” broadcast to millions of holidaymakers in Italy and Croatia. The station founded by the daily newspaper “Die Presse” was a milestone in the media landscape: the first Austrian private broadcaster. Celebrities such as Josef Hader, Andy Woerz, Peter Tichatschek, journalists (Andreas Wollinger, Paul Vécsei) and politicians (Karl Blecha, former Minister of the Interior and Erhard Busek, former Vice Chancellor of Austria) tell about the development and fall of the station in the film. The film begins as a journey through time in 1977 and shows unpublished recordings, but also insights into the holiday habits of the 1970s and 1980s.
production
The Austrian filmmaker Harald Zilka knew the station from his youth. In 2012 there was no information, just a small website. He asked Josef Hader, Andy Woerz and Peter Tichatschek whether they would support a small documentary. According to his own statements, he did not expect an answer and received three confirmations on the same day. Originally a short documentary of 30 minutes was planned, which should be published on the Internet for all fans. When fourteen former employees volunteered for an interview, the film grew to 110 minutes. For the first time in twenty years, the son of the late studio technician Angelo Tognon also spoke about his father in the film. In honor of Tognon, the film author published a small volume with his caricatures (the former Radio Adria Schmunzelbuch). The interviews were filmed in Austria and Germany, but the team also visited the Upper Adriatic, including Lignano, Grado, Bibione, Aquileia and Jesolo. Zilka founded a fan page on Facebook, (Radio Adria - A Success Story) and already in the first year experienced great public interest in Austria and Germany. The reach quickly exceeded 100,000 and was further shared on nostalgia and travel sites. On the Facebook page, fans and once in the Radio Adria studio were able to participate in the programming of the production of the film. In 2017, Hadschi Bankhofer brought the author for an interview on an Adria special on “Radio Wien”. In 2018, the film was released on DVD and BLURAY in collaboration with Jesolo magazine. In the summer of 2018, the Vienna district newspaper brought the story to all of Vienna in all districts and in fifteen of them on the front page. The “Radio Adria - Cookbook” was also published as a brochure by the German publisher Epubli ISBN 978-3-7467-3951-9 and is available in bookshops. Josef Hader and the journalist Paul Vécsei advertise the film in a short trailer. A 300-page non-fiction book will appear on the film in 2019.
Others
- Over 3 TB of data with digitized photos, documents, S-8 films and interviews were collected for the film. For the first time, a cine film from the founding year 1977 with recordings from the first broadcast season was made available to the public. For the first time, completely unpublished images from the founding family's private archive are used, including photos from the year it was founded.
- The title “The Success Story” does not refer to the station's brief financial success in the 1980s, but to its importance in media history. Because private broadcasters were banned in Austria and Germany because of the state monopolies, Radio Adria was in a certain way the forerunner of later private broadcasters.
- After the station was closed in 1991, it was completely forgotten. There were no more internet links or media reports about the phenomenon. In 2006 a Viennese fan (Johnny, the webmaster) founded a memorial site, which was found among initiated contributors. When Harald Zilka started the film, not even the former cast believed there was any public interest in the story. To get the film out, the filmmaker ran an unprecedented advertising campaign, including on social networks. Most of the fans initially came from Germany, it was only the campaign by the Vienna district newspaper that made the film known in Austria, but above all in the federal capital.
- In addition to the film, fans are provided with an extensive free network of images, videos and audio samples. The formerly known Radio Adria songs were also uploaded to a sound cloud. In addition, the film is increasingly being donated to public libraries. Documentation as a historical document was initially in the foreground. The release of the film on DVD was only considered because of the great demand. Fans are also invited to upload holiday photos or recommendations to the fan page.
- The well-known actor, singer and voice actor Andy Woerz not only supported the project from the beginning, but also spoke the OFF texts. Woerz is one of Austria's best-known speakers for commercials, in the cinema, film and television. In his cabaret program “Woerz plays himself 2.0” he built in a number about his time at the station. The trigger after 26 years was probably the film project.
- The Radio Adria building in Via Fermi 13 in Aquileia (near Grado) was for sale for years and was falling into disrepair. The "Villa" was built in 1924. Shortly after the completion of the film, the property was taken over by a new agency and the property was cleared.
- In the first version, the film ended with the end of Radio Adria and the regrets of the former contributors. Because this led to a dejected mood in the audience during previews, outtakes and hoppalas of the interview recordings were added to the final version.
Web links
- http://radio-adria.webnode.at/
- Vienna campaign Wiener Bezirkszeitung [1]
- Jesolo magazine report [2]
- Radio Adria cookbook [3]
- Movie trailer [4]
- Nostalgia report [5]
- Wiener Zeitung on Radio Adria [6]
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://radio-adria.cybercomm.at/. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Paul Vecsei: The paperless newspaper? Never ever! In: Wiener Zeitung. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
- ↑ Josef Hader. Retrieved on August 9, 2018 (German).
- ^ Christian Graf: Andy Woerz's E-Apartment. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
- ↑ Peter TICHATSCHEK . September 9, 2011 ( orf.at [accessed August 9, 2018]).
- ^ Johnny Webmaster: Angelo Tognon. Retrieved September 29, 2018 .
- ↑ Harald Zilka: Radio Adria Schmunzelbuch: Loving memories of the vacations of the 70s, 80s and 90s . 1st edition. epubli, 2018, ISBN 978-3-7467-3823-9 ( amazon.de [accessed on August 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Radio Adria - A Success Story. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
- ^ Radioforum: Radio Adria. In: Fanforum. Retrieved August 6, 2018 .
- ↑ For campers and bodies . In: ZEIT ONLINE . ( zeit.de [accessed on August 9, 2018]).
- ↑ Memory of Radio Adria - jesolo-magazin.com . In: jesolo-magazin.com . January 16, 2017 ( jesolo-magazin.com [accessed August 9, 2018]).
- ^ Hajji Bankhofer: Hajji. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 13, 2017 ; accessed on October 1, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jesolo Magazine: The Radio Adria nostalgia film. Christoph Thür, accessed on August 8, 2018 .
- ↑ https://www.mein Bezirk.at/land-wien/lokales/radio-adria-mit-josef-hader-am-strand-von-jesolo-d2787827.html
- ↑ Vimeo - Video: The film is finished. Retrieved August 8, 2018 .
- ↑ http://radio-adria.cybercomm.at/. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
- ^ Radio Adria. Retrieved August 10, 2018 .
- ↑ Andy Woerz - Woerz is playing 2.0 - backdrop Vienna. Accessed August 10, 2018 (English).
- ↑ Schick Magazin: Woerz plays 2.0. In: Report on Andy Woerz and Radio Adria. Schick Magazin, April 28, 2016, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
