Radio year 1956

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January 1 - The previous Northwest German Broadcasting Corporation (NWDR) splits into the two state broadcasting corporations Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), responsible for the states of Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein , based in Hamburg, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia based in Cologne . The North and West German Broadcasting Association will take over the television operations of the NWDR .
February - The Nalepastraße radio house in Berlin-Oberschöneweide , the headquarters of the GDR radio , goes into full operation.
April 14 - At the National Association of Broadcasters in Chicago , the company Ampex the first for-sale video recorder from the world.

Radio

Klaus Mehnert from SDR becomes ARD's first radio correspondent in Moscow , where he speaks about the XX. CPSU party congress and the initiation of de-Stalinization reported. Klaus Bölling , who also works for SDR, will represent ARD in Belgrade .

January 1st - In Austria, the satirical series Der Watschenmann is discontinued despite violent protests.

January 13th - The WDR in Cologne begins broadcasting the 8-part radio play Paul Temple and the Madison case by Francis Durbridge with René Deltgen , Ursula Langrock and Kurt Lieck in the leading roles (director: Eduard Hermann ).

January 27 - The radio play CBS Radio Workshop begins with a production of Aldous Huxley's novel Brave New World

February 19 - With the episode Das Taschentuch , the Hessischer Rundfunk broadcasts the 77th and final episode of the radio play series about Die Hesselbachs by and with Wolf Schmidt , which has been published since 1949 under the title Familie Hesselbach , Prokurist a. D. Hesselbach, Büro für Lebensberatung and Hesselbach GmbH were broadcast in three seasons.

June 30 - After 19 years, the US will change radio soap opera Guiding Light from radio to television.

August 17th - The German freedom broadcaster 904, created by the GDR as a secret broadcaster , reports on the ether for the first time in the evening.

November 6th - The ORF broadcasts the first edition of the science series Salzburg Night Studio . The content of the first broadcast is a lecture by Robert Schuman .

December 15 - The sentence Elvis has left the building , formulated by Horace Lee Logan at the end of an edition of Louisiana Hayride with a live performance by Elvis Presley, causes a mass panic among female fans . The phrase also finds its way into western pop culture .

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April 28th - A drawing of the ARD television lottery will be broadcast for the first time.

May 15 - On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of its establishment, Hrvatska Radiotelevizija (Radio Zagreb) is the first radio station in Yugoslavia to start - on an experimental basis - a television service.

May 24th - The first Eurovision Song Contest entitled 1st Gran Premio Eurovisione della Canzone Europea will be broadcast across Europe from Lugano , Italian-speaking Switzerland . The winner is Lys Assia , which starts for Switzerland with the title The Old Carousel . The placements of the other 13 participants will not be announced. Germany is represented by Freddy Quinn and Walter Andreas Schwarz .

September 4th - Sveriges Television starts its first television service in Sweden .

October 1st - The ARD Tagesschau goes on air every day.

October 28th - The Hessischer Rundfunk broadcasts the first edition of the series Ein Platz für (wild) animals . The presenter is the director of Frankfurt Zoo , Bernhard Grzimek .

Born

Fritz Ostermayer - Austrian music journalist ( Die Musicbox ), musician and DJ was born in Schattendorf , Burgenland .
January 7th - Uwe Ochsenknecht , German actor, is born in Biblis .
January 17th - Mitch Vogel , American actor, is born in Alhambra, California . He was best known for the role of Jamie Hunter Cartwright from the FS series Bonanza .
April 6th - Thomas Koschwitz , German radio and television presenter, is born in Heidelberg .
June 15 - Robin Curtis , American actress, was born in New York State .
July 13th - Günther Jauch , German showmaster , is born in Münster .
August 5th - Anja Kruse , German actress ( if the neighbors only knew , Forsthaus Falkenau ) is born in Essen .
September 22nd - Thomas Wilkening , German television producer, is born in Potsdam-Babelsberg . († 2005)
October 4th - Christoph Waltz , Austrian actor, is born in Vienna .
October 10 - Amanda Burton , British actress, is born in County Londonderry , Northern Ireland.
October 24 - Karl Karst , German radio journalist (including feature and radio play author) is born in Cologne . He mainly worked for the WDR .
November 20 - Olli Dittrich , German actor ( Dittsche ) and comedian is born in Offenbach am Main .

Died

August 14th - Bertolt Brecht , German playwright and media theorist dies at the age of 58 in Berlin .
August 16 - Bela Lugosi , American actor of Romanian-Hungarian origin with later cult status, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 73 .
November 23rd - Armin Berg , Austrian cabaret artist dies in Vienna at the age of 73 .

Web links

Gijsbert Hinnen: International radio and television chronicle. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on December 26, 2016 ; Retrieved December 26, 2016 .
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