School radio

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In 1949, 80 schools in Hamburg were each equipped with a special device for receiving school radio broadcasts.
WDR school radio booklet for the 1990 program

The school radio is a supplement to school lessons as a radio broadcast by public broadcasters . A corresponding version on television is school television .

Legal

The school radio broadcasts (radio) have a special position in copyright protection . According to German copyright law § 47, it is permissible to show recordings from radio and television for programs that are marked as "school television" or "school radio" when they are broadcast. Recorded programs may be used until the end of the school year following the broadcast. This is also the legal basis for school television programs to be recorded by the state media centers and available for schools.

history

School radio control room in the Haus des Berliner Rundfunks , 1946
Supplement of the NDR for the programs "Neues aus Waldhagen" from 1973/1974

Radio began in Germany in 1923, and with the first technical successes, ideas were asked for adding content to the new radio programs. In mid-1924, the Ministry of Culture considered filling “what was in the making,” radio, with school content, not least in order to introduce students to radio technology and thus to radio handicrafts. In October 1924 a u. a. Event organized by philologists' associations took place, which was called "Radio and School". The first program, officially called “Schulfunk”, was broadcast in the same year by NORAG (forerunner of NDR ) - with a speech in English. Around this time the BBC also started its school radio; a year earlier, students in New York broadcast historical topics from their schools.

As early as 1924, the year after the start of broadcasting, the first school broadcasts were broadcast in Germany.

“The opening of the Hamburg station at the beginning of May, like the Nordd. Broadcasting A.-G. notifies u. a. also bring an innovation in the field of radio, the school radio. He will illustrate and explain the literature and language lessons, the history of music [,] the course in physics, etc. through appropriate presentations. Scientists and artists have agreed to work. "

- Report in the Oesterreichische Radio-Zeitung 1924, No. 11

The later founded German School Radio Association and magazines such as Kulturfunk und Schule (merged with around 1932) and Der Schulfunk were dedicated to this topic:

The school radio [the magazine] wants to keep its readers in constant contact with all important and current issues of school radio work and enable the teachers to incorporate the school radio presentations appropriately into current lessons. In addition to articles and reports by appointed experts, the school radio brings the half-year plans of the German broadcasters and the educational programs of the entire German radio with a short methodical preview of each individual performance for 14 days in advance. The school radio appears on the 1st and 15th of each month. Price 25 Pfg. "(Advertisement of the magazine 1932)

The National Socialists were very aware of the possibilities of carrying propaganda into schools via the radio. For example, Reich Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had a commemoration ceremony in a Berlin elementary school on the occasion of the murder of Herbert Norkus broadcast to all schools in the Reich four years earlier.

The editorial office of the magazine was in the "Central Office for School Radio" in the Haus des Rundfunks , Berlin. The magazine was printed and distributed by Kommissionsverlag Julius Beitz, Langensalza.

In Switzerland and Austria, school radio has supplemented teaching since 1932. Other countries (USA, Canada, Soviet Union, etc.) also had radio broadcasts for schools in the 1930s.

After the Second World War, school radio in Germany began on September 2, 1946 with daily broadcasts from the Leipzig station of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk .

After the start of the NWDR program in autumn 1947 (from January 1956 NDR / WDR 1), the classic time of school radio was the 1950s and 1960s. The programs were broadcast in the mornings and afternoons well into the 1960s. The broadcasts later ran in the morning, and in the afternoon they were repeated on the third radio programs of the NDR and WDR. They started with the instrumental introduction to the aria of Papageno from the Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart when the school radio broadcast on NDR / WDR 1 from the NDR radio station was sent in Hamburg and later on NDR third If the school radio came from the Cologne WDR radio station or later on WDR 3, the opening credits consisted of the first twelve bars of the 3rd movement of Symphony No. 28 in A major by Joseph Haydn . During school holidays there was usually no school radio.

Particularly well-known series were u. a .: News from Waldhagen , The doctor speaks, The animal lover, Lively past, From home and the world, You are jointly responsible, The life around you and the English lessons English for juniors (beginners) and English for seniors (advanced), spoken by the teachers Henry and Barbara, popular with many English students .

The broadcasters also published printed booklets with additional information for teachers as accompanying material.

Today, only a few broadcasters offer educational programs similar to school radio, but they are aimed at a broader audience: radioWissen ( BR ), Wissenswert ( HR / SR ), Logo ( NDR ), SWR 2 Wissen, LernZeit ( WDR ) and Radiokolg ( ORF ) . In addition, radio stations also broadcast their educational programs as podcasts .

The school radio broadcasts also often included small radio plays to convey social content, such as the series Neues aus Waldhagen . Gernot Weitzl was the inventor and responsible editor of the series .

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Individual evidence

  1. Heribert Heinrichs: The practice of school radio , Neue Deutsche Schule Verlags-Gesellschaft 1958
  2. From the radio world . In: Oesterreichische Radio-Zeitung . No. 11 , 1924, pp. 8 ( ANNO - AustriaN Newspapers Online [accessed May 5, 2020]).
  3. This advertisement of the magazine Der Schulfunk can be found u. a. in the Rundfunk Jahrbuch 1933 , published by the working group of publishers of official radio magazines and the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft, Verlag JS Preuss, Berlin 1932, p. 168. The book is in the library of the Museum for Communication in Frankfurt
  4. Kölnische Illustrierte Zeitung of February 6, 1936