SOS… rao rao… Foyn

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SOS… rao rao… Foyn - “Krassin” saves “Italia” is the oldest completely preserved radio play production in German. The radio play in 20 scenes is by Friedrich Wolf and was produced in 1929 by Funk-Hour Berlin in mono. The length is approx. 64 minutes 11 seconds.

background

The radio play is based on a true story: in 1928 the Russian radio amateur Nikolai Reinholdowitsch Schmidt (1906–1942) heard the mutilated emergency call " SOS ... rao ... rao ... Foyn ... " over a self-made shortwave receiver in Wochma . of the survivors of the airship Italia . The airship of the Italian polar explorer Umberto Nobile was caught in a snow storm while flying over the North Pole and crashed north of Spitsbergen . The survivors drifted on an ice floe and repeatedly made their emergency call with a portable emergency radio system including location information: “ SOS Italia. On the pack ice, near Foyn Island , northeast of Svalbard, 80 ° 37 'latitude, 26 ° 50' longitude. “Schmidt reported his observation to Moscow, whereupon an international rescue operation began that would not have been possible without the medium of radio.

About the radio play

The oldest completely preserved radio play production of German radio makes the radio and radio itself the topic. The North Pole flight was planned by the Italian Duce as a fascist propaganda campaign. The fact that, of all things , the Soviet icebreaker Krassin saved the casualties was an occasion for Friedrich Wolf to appeal to world solidarity.

The first performance of the radio play SOS… rao rao… Foyn , which was later also played with success by foreign stations, took place on November 5, 1929 in Cologne under the direction of the then senior director Rudolf Rieth and in Berlin under the direction of Alfred Braun . The production by Alfred Braun is preserved in the German Broadcasting Archive (DRA) and was released as an audio CD by DRA's own publishing house at the end of 2013, together with some other works and speeches by the author Friedrich Wolf. The radio enthusiasm of the 1920s conveyed by the radio play is reminiscent of the communication frenzy of the Internet in the 1990s. In 1953 the radio of the GDR produced a 46-minute new production of the play under the title Krassin rettet Italia , director: Joachim Witte, composition: Günter Lossau, first broadcast: December 21, 1953.

The scenes

Introduction / I Overdue / II Post-Editing in the Tageblatt / III Ice Floe / IV Russian Village Voznesenskoje in the Vyatka Governorate 1 / V Straße in Berlin / VI Radio Station Rome-Sao Paolo / VII Scientific Department at the Foreign Office in Moscow / VIII The red tent on the Ice floe / IX Rome-Sao Paolo radio station / X Workers' council of an iron rolling mill near Leningrad / XI On board the icebreaker Malygin in front of Cape Leighsmith / XII Prawda report / XIII Café Telschow at the Berlin Zoo station / XIV The red tent on the floating ice floe / XV large Ice floe near the Wrede peninsula on July 10th / XVI On board the Krassin / XVII Christiania radio station / XVIII Ice floe with red tent / XIX Two letters from Italia to Krassin

1in reality originally Vologda Governorate , at the time of the expedition already under the name Wochma in the Northern Dvina Governorate

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ SOS in the ice - the airship “Italia” crashed in the Arctic , Zeppelin Museum on May 30, 2018, accessed on February 12, 2019

literature

  • Friedrich Wolf: A radio pioneer - “SOS… rao rao… Foyn - Krassin saves Italia” and other selected audio documents . Double CD, DRA Frankfurt, 2013, ISBN 978-3-926072-49-8 . DRA , accessed February 24, 2013.
  • Friedrich Wolf: SOS… rao rao… Foyn - Krassin saves Italy. (1929) In: Bodo Würffel (Hrsg.): Early socialist radio plays . Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-596-27032-4 , pp. 41-66.
  • Helmut Kreuzer: German-language radio plays 1924–1933 . Frankfurt am Main 2003, p. 46 ff. (Comparison of the Pol radio plays by Friedrich Wolf, Walter Erich Schäfer and Arno Schirokauer )
  • Katja Rothe: Disasters listen to experiments on early European radio . Kulturverlag Kadmos Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86599-093-8

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