Saxony radio
From July 1990 on, Sachsen Radio broadcast its program on the former frequencies of Radio GDR II in what would become the federal state of Saxony . The program was the direct successor to the former district stations in Leipzig , Dresden and Chemnitz / Karl-Marx-Stadt. Sachsen Radio broadcast its program from the Leipziger Funkhaus Springerstraße , which from 1992 also housed the radio of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR).
history
On June 18, 1990, the journalist Manfred Müller was appointed State Broadcasting Director of the State of Saxony under the government of Prime Minister Lothar de Maizière . For Sachsen Radio with its regional studios in Dresden and Chemnitz, which had just emancipated itself from the central power of the former GDR radio, Müller organized development loans from the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation and brought experienced employees from the Federal Republic of Germany to its board of directors: as technical director Werner Hinz from Deutschlandfunk , the Inventor of the Hinz trill for the ARI traffic radio decoder , Detlef Kühn from the All-German Institute as administrative director and Uwe Eckhard Böttger as editor-in-chief from Deutschlandfunk. During Müller's ten-month term in office, he succeeded in turning a regional studio that had previously delivered six-hour program windows for Radio DDR I into a broadcaster with two and a half full programs - Saxony 1 , Saxony 2 and Saxony 3 . On April 19, 1991 Manfred Müller was dismissed by the radio commissioner of the facility in accordance with Article 36 of the Unification Treaty , Mr. Rudolf Mühlfenzl .
Until the final settlement, the management of programs and staff was in the hands of the administrative director Detlef Kühn and the provisional state broadcasting director Dr. Detlef Rentsch.
With the amendment of the State Broadcasting Treaty for the five new federal states after reunification , the MDR was founded on May 31, 1991 as a three-country institution for the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . On January 1, 1992, the programs of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk began broadcasting.
The Sachsen Radio found its successor mainly in MDR 1 Radio Sachsen and in MDR Kultur . On July 10, 1991, a first program concept for an MDR cultural channel - at that time still called MDR 3 - was drawn up and a proposal was sent to the founding director of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.
Programs
With Sachsen 1 , Sachsen Radio initially only broadcast a regional program for Saxony. The program essentially consisted of current regional information, hits, pop and entertainment. The best known show was the "Saxon three". In the morning and afternoon hours the program was split regionally into Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz / Karl-Marx-Stadt.
The full programs Sachsen 2 and Sachsen 3 went on air within a few weeks .
Sachsen 2 was initially conceived as a cultural and classical program, later the program was given a “morning magazine” and a “midday magazine”, which was reminiscent of the magazine programs of the West German public radio stations WDR 2 or SWF3 . However, Sachsen 2 retained an informational and cultural character for the rest of the broadcasting time and broadcast features, discussion panels and selected music.
Sachsen 3 was initially conceived as a pop and youth wave, but broadcast only from 7 p.m. to midnight due to the frequency split with the national programs of Radio DDR . The program began at 7 pm with the program “Powerplay” - followed by the program “Moonwalker” at 10 pm. One of the most famous Saxony 3 presenters was Frank Schmidt, who later also sat behind the microphone for MDR Life . On March 1, 1991, the program color of Saxony 3 changed fundamentally. Since the program went on the air without the approval of the then radio commissioner Rudolf Mühlfenzl , there was a threat of shutdown. In just a few days and nights of February, a handful of inaugurated editors clandestinely developed a program scheme for a culture broadcaster, practically in nighttime and foggy actions. Due to the changes in the program, Sachsen 3 - Kultur continued to have daily broadcasting time from 7:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m.
particularities
In contrast to the other regional radio stations of the former GDR (in Brandenburg Antenne Brandenburg , in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania RMV 1 and temporarily Ferienwelle RMV 2 , in Thuringia Thuringia 1 and in Saxony-Anhalt Radio Sachsen-Anhalt ), Sachsen Radio continuously expanded its program offer. In the evenings three programs were broadcast by Sachsen Radio.
Sachsen Radio was the largest regional radio station in the GDR and the only one with its own orchestras and choirs as well as a radio play production. Improvisation was a top priority at Sachsen Radio. As there was a lack of broadcasting rooms, offices in the broadcasting house and in a neighboring building were quickly converted accordingly. For example, a simple room housed the speakers' room for the cultural program, an OB van in the courtyard served as the control room, and visual contact with the technology was only possible via a monitor.
Individual evidence
- ^ "Sachsen Radio, Ein Intermezzo" by Werner Hinz, Triangel, issue 12/2000, p. 128.
- ↑ MDR KULTUR, the broadcast started on January 1, 1992 on YouTube .
- ↑ a b Here is Saxony III - culture. Retrieved October 9, 2012 .
- ↑ The history of the Funkhaus in Leipziger Springerstraße ( page no longer available , search in web archives )