Radio Schwarzi Chatz

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Radio Schwarzi Chatz was a pirate station in Switzerland on the frequency between 100 and 104 megahertz . He belonged to the left-wing political spectrum and, with 36 documented programs between April 1978 and the end of 1980, is one of the most active and long-lived representatives of the scene, alongside the wave witch and Radio Banana .

history

From the mid-1970s, so-called radio pirates also used free frequencies for broadcasting in Switzerland. Radio Schwarzi Chatz began broadcasting in the spring of 1978. Her motto was to be “subversive and intense”. They wanted to create as many illegal stations as possible in order to provoke the PTT as the guardian of the SRG's radio monopoly .

Their best-known action in the political arena was the mobilization of over 300 demonstrators against the tanks that rolled into Zurich for the defense show of the Swiss Army in 1979 , "at 5 o'clock in the morning!" The later youth riots in Zurich also attracted attention in Germany, and Radio Schwarzi Chatz was named in the summer of 1980 as one of the mouthpieces for Zurich's Second Culture. The Belgian directors Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne from Liège , who were at the beginning of their work, visited the station as one of seven examples in Europe for their video documentation R… ne répond plus (R… no longer answers), which was produced in 1981.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Adrian Scherrer: Formation of tradition in the gray area. The importance of contextualizing audiovisual documents using the example of pirate radios. , Information Science: Theory, Method and Practice, 4 (1), 2016
  2. ↑ a b Stefan Länzlinger: Creating a counter- public with pirate stations (Piratenradios II) , Swiss Social Archives, July 17, 2014.
  3. ↑ Broadcast from October 28, 1979, comment on the Tagesanzeiger magazine - women's shelter , minute 1:40 , originator unknown, from: Radio inventory Political Pirate Radios, Swiss Social Archives
  4. ↑ Mirjam Häsler: "Radio pirate radios and listener radios: Swiss broadcasting and counter-media" , December 9, 2003, page 22
  5. ^ Karl Lüönd : concession-less , NZZ Folio , March 2007 edition.
  6. ↑ Chaos is like Opium , Der Spiegel 30/1980, issue of July 21, 1980
  7. ↑ Announcement of the broadcast of the video shot in 1981 by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne on November 21, 2010 , www.zin-tv.org