SWR2 archive radio

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SWR2 archive radio
Radio station ( public service )
reception Web radio
Reception area unlimited
Start of transmission September 1, 2007
Broadcaster Südwestrundfunk
Intendant Kai Gniffke
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The SWR2 archive radio is a multimedia service of the Südwestrundfunk founded on July 19, 2007 with the support of the German Broadcasting Archive (DRA) . It serves the purpose of making historically significant audio documents from German radio archives and other audio collections publicly accessible. The initiator was the radio journalist Maximilian Schönherr .

concept

The archive radio began as an internet radio and since 2018 has essentially consisted of four pillars:

  • a web radio channel with extensive original recordings on each one of the main topics,
  • a podcast , which is also played via the ARD audio library,
  • the website archivradio.de , on which a large part of the recordings can be accessed "on demand" and is documented in more detail,
  • classifying programs in the SWR2 Knowledge series , in which the background is explained using the original recordings.

Educational mandate

The program is jointly responsible for the educational offer of the cultural radio SWR2 . The target group of the program are in particular “high school pupils, students, teachers, university teachers and journalists” as well as generally “online radio listeners” with a great interest in contemporary history topics. At the end of 2010, the SWR2 archive radio passed the three-step test , in which it was certified as having “Public Value” according to the Broadcasting Act : The program has a typical public-law orientation and provides more education for the interested public.

The archive radio does not contain any advertising.

Web radio and podcast

Handwritten planning sketch for the archive radio on the occasion of 10 years of 9/11

Because the archive radio is not tied to formats such as hourly news, the web radio offer counts as format-free radio . One of its basic premises is to broadcast raw material that is as uncut as possible - technically more precisely: to stream it in the case of the web radio offer . This sound material can consist of historically important radio broadcasts, interviews, event recordings, reports, parliamentary debates and discussions, all of which deal with a specific topic. A short moderation introduces the individual original recordings. In addition, there is no comment on the original tones; Historical background material is provided solely by the associated website and the linear programs on SWR2.

SWR documentary editor Georg Polster in the archive (2007)
Tape with broadcast recordings from autumn 1977, used in archive radio 2007

The podcast usually brings several episodes a week on a topic, usually each with a current reference. The web radio, on the other hand, broadcasts sounds on larger topics, in cooperation with archivists from the SWR and in coordination with the German Broadcasting Archive. The recordings are then usually streamed around the clock for several weeks as an endless loop. With its basic concept, the archive radio differs significantly from other radio programs.

Programs in SWR2

Since October 2010, SWR2 has also been broadcasting programs relating to individual priorities. In a conversation with a studio guest - usually the author of one of the focal points or external experts - the background to the audio documents is explained. These programs run in series (thus also in the podcast of) SWR2 Wissen - either as a half-hour broadcast in the morning at 8:30 a.m. or as an hourly broadcast, usually on public holidays. These programs are also available on the Internet as audio files. The archive radio served as the nucleus for other projects, such as the WDR features on the Stammheim trial (2009, German audio book award ) and the GDR espionage trial against Elli Barczatis and Karl Laurenz ("guillotine for daisies", feature award of the Radio Basel Foundation 2012) .

Original sounds

The audio documents largely come from the archives of the ARD broadcasting corporations and the German Broadcasting Archive, but the archive radio also broke new ground by streaming original recordings from the Stammheim trial or the audio archive of the Federal Commissioner for Stasi Records (BStU) for the first time - from the existence of the Stammheim tapes were unknown until this publication, the publications of the Stasi tapes are part of the efforts of the BStU to process historical sound material and to publish it in an orderly manner.

The archivists' mouthpiece

Archive employee at SWR Stuttgart 2007

Because the archive radio sees itself as a platform for opening the archives and as a bridge between the public and the documentation departments in the ARD radio stations and the German Broadcasting Archive , the archivists and documentaries have their own say here. These - also unabridged - interviews are called "archive talks". For example, on the occasion of the archive radio stocking with original sounds from the Stasi tapes, Maximilian Schönherr talked to Katri Jurichs and Elke Steinbach from the BStU about their archive work, including how they can still find playback devices for exotic recording media (such as sound wires ) today to save and digitize the old recordings. In another archive conversation, Georg Polster, historian and archivist in the word documentation in the SWR Stuttgart, tells of the creation and archiving of a special tape that the archive radio broadcast in full on the occasion of the focus on "30 Years of German Autumn 1977". On the occasion of the archive radio focus "China in historical original tones", the head of the documentation Word at Deutsche Welle , Diana Redlich, reports on the condition of her archive and specifically on the origin of four tapes with Petra Kelly , Franz Josef Strauss , Eugen Gerstenmaier and Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker , who comment on the opening of the People's Republic of China .

history

Early tests with internet streams

The SWR2 archive radio goes back to an idea of ​​the radio journalist Maximilian Schönherr. On March 1, 2002, he tested a radio stream from his computer. In 2003 he met two programmers and web designers, Hans and Hartmut Landwehr in Haan , during an interview for the WDR program “Wortlaut” . They had just installed a broadband internet connection and were looking for content to stream as a test. Edition Wandelweiser , a group of experimental e-musicians who primarily broadcast silence , was one of the participants in the experiment . Schönherr fed in original sounds from his private interview and sound collection for a few hours and had an English programmer write a plug-in for him to make the title of the audio file currently played visible on his website.

First concept

First concept for a "German archive radio", with placeholders and a strict transmission schedule, 2005

After this trouble-free test stream of 12 hours of original sound material that was repeated for months, he worked out the concept of an internet radio for ARD with the help of feature director Nikolai von Koslowski , which would stream uncut original sounds from the radio archives. At that time, the broadcasters began with the streams of their antenna programs, so they were just entering the world of Internet radio. With his concept of a “German Archive Radio”, Schönherr, who was familiar with the radio archives from his journalistic work, approached the director of the German Radio Archive, Hans-Gerhard Stülb. Stülb supported the project.

Station search

Archive radio - equipping the first prototype with original sounds for the " German Autumn ", 2007

The idea needed an ARD broadcaster, where the archive radio was housed editorially and technically. WDR director Fritz Pleitgen was interested in the idea in 2006, but his multimedia officer, Rüdiger Malfeld, found it unattractive and unrealizable. At SWR, however, the idea immediately fell on fertile ground. The broadcaster had just founded a commission for a “knowledge channel” that looked at additional offers for the Internet. The head of the science department in the radio ( SWR2 ), Detlef Clas, brought the idea of ​​the archive radio here, established connections to the head of documentation in the SWR, Michael Harms, to Georg Polster, a historian and archivist in the SWR Stuttgart, the radio director of the SWR, Bernhard Herrmann, and the online editorial team in Baden-Baden. The first prototype, a 24-hour stream with uncut original sounds on the occasion of 30 years of " German Autumn " 1977 , was created within a very short time in spring and summer 2007 under the direction of Schönherr. The trial phase of the project - now called "SWR2 Archivradio" - ended at the end of 2010 the successful completion of the three-stage test.

Podcast

The podcast began in October 2017, shortly before the official start of the ARD Audiothek. Like internet radio ten years earlier, the podcast began with recordings for the German Autumn. On this occasion, SWR2 also broadcast almost the full length of the one-hour special broadcast with which Südwestfunk reported forty years earlier on October 18, 1977 about the current events in Mogadishu and Stammheim.

subjects

So far, the following main topics have been dealt with:

Web links

proof

  1. ^ Hermann Rotermund, Jürgen Krob, Heiko Klatt: Expert opinion on the market effects of the telemedia offer SWR2 Archivradio . Page 38.Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  2. SWR: Telemedia Concepts of the SWR . Page 137f. June 2010. Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  3. Example: Accompaniment of the original sounds and development of the Stasi main focus 2011: [1]
  4. ^ Hermann Rotermund, Jürgen Krob, Heiko Klatt : Expert opinion on the market effects of the telemedia offer SWR2 Archivradio . Page 44.Retrieved May 19, 2011.
  5. SWR: SWR2 archive radio talks . Programs at a glance. Retrieved August 6, 2011.
  6. SWR: 2011: The work in the Stasi records authority . Archive talk. February 22, 2011, accessed on August 6, 2011. - Original sound ( memento from February 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (MP3; 18.8 MB).
  7. ^ SWR: Archive talk with Georg Polster (SWR) . Archive talk about the tape about an airplane hijacking. July 24, 2007. Accessed August 6, 2011. - ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: original sound ).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mp3.swr.de
  8. SWR: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Archive talk with Diana Redlich (DW) ). November 24, 2007. Accessed August 6, 2011. -  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ).@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.swr.de @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / mp3.swr.de
  9. In this first concept from June 2005 it was said: “This is the idea for an advertising-free, non-commercial 'German archive radio', which sends unprocessed information in good quality over the Internet, namely the sources, the original sounds, the raw material, the heart pieces . Unmoderated, non-stop, around the clock. It acts as an accompanying medium to the radio and television broadcasts of the ARD and is closely linked to them. It promotes the treasures of the archives and thus makes the expertise of the archives, in particular of the German Broadcasting Archive, accessible to an interested broad public. In addition, it underlines one of the core competencies of ARD, namely to offer information based on hard sources. Internet radio broadcasts these sources in uncut form and thus complements the broadcasters' increasingly finely segmented and processed programs. "
  10. See also German Association of Germanists , December 2012 [2]
  11. This one-hour briefing session , broadcast in SWR 2 on 1 January 2013