Transmitter Schwerin

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As transmitter Schwerin radiated from the mid-1950s to 1989, the Schwerin Broadcasting House of Broadcasting of the GDR its regional or central radio broadcasts or programs from. From 1992 the federal German NDR broadcast its MV state radio program from Schwerin (including NDR 1 Radio MV and Nordmagazin ), and in 1997 the new NDR state radio station was inaugurated in Schwerin's Schloßgartenallee .

Broadcasting in the region until 1945

The Nordic Broadcasting AG (NORAG) based in and from 1932 their successors talked to 1945 in Schwerin was merely a so-called demand-meeting place is a need Studio, the size of the production of large orchestral works and entire operas would have permitted but hardly used.

Broadcasting in the region from 1945 to 1952

Broadcasting in the Soviet occupation zone after 1945

After the Second World War and the collapse of National Socialist radio, German anti-fascists under the leadership of KPD functionaries built a radio system for the Soviet occupation zone on the orders of the Soviet occupying power . This broadcasting system in the Soviet Zone / GDR had the following structure from 1945 to 1952:

Berliner Rundfunk (as a control station for all transmitters in the Soviet occupation zone and as a control station for Berlin , Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ; broadcasting start: May 13, 1945 - as of May 22, 1945 as Berliner Rundfunk)

  • State transmitter Schwerin (for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; start of broadcast: December 24, 1945)
- Rostock studio
  • State transmitter Potsdam (for Brandenburg; start of broadcast: June 22, 1946)
  • Studio Cottbus (for the Cottbus region ; start of broadcast: around 1948/49)

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (for Saxony , Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt ; seat: Leipzig ; start of broadcasting: September 15, 1945, operating as Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from November 1945 and broadcasting from the Berlin radio house until a building that was converted into a radio house on June 4, 1946)

  • State transmitter Dresden (for Saxony; start of broadcast: December 7, 1945)
- Studio Chemnitz
  • Landessender Weimar (for Thuringia; start of broadcast: January 1, 1946 after trial broadcasts from November 1945)
- Studio Erfurt
  • State transmitter Halle (for Saxony-Anhalt, broadcast start: December 24, 1946)
- Studio Magdeburg

Deutschlandsender (for all of Germany; seat: Berlin; broadcast start: May 1, 1949)

The Berliner Rundfunk and the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk worked in their respective broadcasting area as a broadcasting chain, with the state broadcasters creating regional window programs - embedded in the program structure of the respective leading broadcaster (Berliner Rundfunk or Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk). In the course of the further development of broadcasting structures, the broadcasting officers and the corresponding offices in the federal states gradually installed the above-mentioned regional studios, each with a supplier function for the broadcasting houses in Berlin and Leipzig or the regional broadcasters. The studio Cottbus spread from ca. 1948/49's the only studio regional broadcasts on cable radio, also embedded in the program of the Berlin Rundfunk.

The Deutschlandsender was subordinate to the directorship of the Berliner Rundfunk, but had its own editor-in-chief. In any case, the Berliner Rundfunk functioned as a control station for all broadcasting houses and studios in the Soviet Zone / GDR until 1952.

The highest authority was the general director for democratic broadcasting , responsible for all broadcasting stations and their respective broadcasting chains with the associated national broadcasters and the regional studios. Thus, despite the considerable production volume of the broadcasting houses and studios in the federal states and the influence of the KPD / SED in the state administrations, radio in the Soviet occupation zone and the later GDR did not have a federal structure , but was a central radio system with a general manager in Berlin. Neither of these broadcasting houses or studios operated under public law and neither of the two broadcasting chains was a separate legal entity .

Beginnings in Schwerin

At the end of 1945, the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania began to set up a state broadcaster in cooperation with those responsible for broadcasting in Berlin, the Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) and the post office . It started broadcasting under the name Landessender Schwerin with a one-hour broadcast from 5:00 p.m. on December 24, 1945. The state broadcaster was housed in a provisionally set up studio in the offices of the Oberpostdirektion in Schwerin. The radius of action was initially limited to Schwerin and the surrounding area. From December 25, 1945, the national broadcaster broadcast a half-hour program every day at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. From January 4, 1946, these programs from Schwerin were integrated into the program structure of the Berlin radio as regional window programs, making the state broadcaster part of the Berlin radio broadcasting chain.

The studio consisted of a technical room and a speaker room, as well as three editorial and office rooms and had only a small material base. Donations from listeners were welcome - including turntables , records and microphones . Since recording systems were not available, every program and every contribution had to be broadcast live . Equipment supplied by the Berliner Rundfunk improved working conditions a little. The commissioning of a new 20 kW transmitter made it possible to slightly improve the reception options for the program from Schwerin in the state.

Funkhaus in Schillerstrasse

Since the studio could only be a temporary solution anyway, the broadcasters in Schwerin agreed to convert a two-family house at Schwerin Schillerstraße 4/6 into a radio house.

Construction work was completed in June 1946, and broadcasting began on August 11 of the same year. The following were available in the radio house: a studio with a control desk, an amplifier rack and a record player; a small broadcasting room for music and radio play productions as well as a small technical room that had to serve as a production, editing and switching room. The Berliner Rundfunk had also supplied further technical equipment, so that the working conditions again improved somewhat. However, in 1946 the radio house did not own a single motor vehicle. An OB van was only available from 1947.

With a frequency change in November 1946, the range of the national broadcaster was further improved. Nevertheless, the coverage in Western Pomerania remained unsatisfactory, whereas the station in Baden-Württemberg , Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate could be received well. This gap in supply could only be closed gradually.

Since there were initially insufficient sound carriers with the corresponding music titles, the musical arrangement of the programs was carried out by musicians from the Mecklenburg State Theater , who played the musical accompaniment live in the broadcasting hall. Even this gap could only be closed gradually with newly acquired and donated sound carriers.

Regardless of this, this cooperation was the beginning of an extremely fruitful collaboration between the Schweriner Funkhaus and the Schwerin State Theater, but also with other artistic and cultural institutions such as the Schwerin Police Orchestra and the Rostock City Theater / Volkstheater .

The daily program volume was around three to four regional windows, spread over the day with a total of around 4½ hours. The production profile among national news, the country radio, the radio courier, the view of the national press and a business magazine, evacuees - and returnee program , answering listener questions as well as music and entertainment, classical music, radio plays , but also special program on upcoming elections and Low German broadcasts. Because the national broadcaster tried very early to maintain the Low German language . In the Schwerin broadcasting house alone, tapes for 8,000 minutes of broadcast were to be produced by 1990 .

In 1948 the regional broadcaster founded a children's choir.

But the broadcasting house soon proved to be too small for the tasks at hand. Therefore, in 1947, the state broadcaster installed fixed transmission locations for music recordings and transmissions as well as for public events in the New Palais and in the House of Culture , for which the broadcasting hall in the radio house would not have been suitable. The state government has meanwhile supported the state broadcaster's application to build a new broadcasting house or to be able to convert a building for it.

Funkhaus in the Schlossgartenallee

After a year and a half of construction, from October 1949 a new broadcasting house was available to the Schwerin regional broadcaster in the building complex of the former NSDAP - Gauführerschule at Schlossgartenallee 61, which significantly improved working conditions - also through additional technical staff. The program could thus be produced in a studio, a sound recording room and a radio play complex with a reverberation room , in editing rooms and in the necessary editorial, administration and technical rooms. A year later, the large broadcasting hall was completed in a separate building, as was the small broadcasting hall in the main building - both with their own direction.

In the large broadcasting hall with seating for 400 people, the state broadcaster organized public concerts from 1951, such as the listener's wish concerts. It was not until the 1970s that the broadcasting house abandoned the seating and only used this complex as a studio for complex music productions and recordings. In addition, the state broadcaster organized concerts in the zoo and other cultural institutions in the broadcasting area. In addition to the children's choir, the regional broadcaster's youth choir, founded in 1951, performed at such events.

Studio Rostock

In March 1947 , what was then the largest company in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - the Neptun shipyard in Rostock - opened a commercial radio studio that the state broadcaster Schwerin used very often for reporting from Rostock. Nevertheless, the regional broadcaster Schwerin began to set up a radio studio in Rostock. In May 1948 the Rostock studio went into operation. With two editors , a driver, two technicians and the studio manager, as well as a studio and an ancient broadcast van , it was located in the Kulturbund building at Schillerplatz 10 and produced supplies for the Schwerin broadcasting company and the Berliner Rundfunk. About a year later the Rostock studio moved to Graf-Schalck-Straße 1 into a house with two studios, a technical operating room and rooms for the editorial office, technicians and studio manager, which also improved the working conditions in Rostock somewhat.

Broadcasting in the region from 1952 to 1964

The dissolution of the states and the establishment of districts as administrative units in the summer of 1952 was accompanied by a restructuring of broadcasting in the GDR with the establishment of the State Broadcasting Committee (SRK). The Rostock district and most of the Schwerin and Neubrandenburg districts corresponded to the transmission area of ​​the former state broadcaster Schwerin.

District studios

As a result of the restructuring of the GDR radio, the broadcasting houses and studios in the previous countries were district studios from summer 1952, only with a supplier function for the central programs produced in Berlin or partly in Leipzig. This also applied to the Schwerin radio station. In district towns in which there were no radio studios yet, the broadcasting committee set up such studios, for example in Suhl , Gera , Frankfurt (Oder) and Neubrandenburg .

But the first corrections to the program structure were made in the summer of 1953. This resulted in the district studios creating regional windows. Three studios shared one frequency from one of three central programs and alternately broadcast half an hour on this frequency every day. One studio acted as the lead studio. The connected studios transferred their programs to the master studio, which broadcast the programs. The Schwerin studio acted as the lead studio for the Rostock and Neubrandenburg studios.

  • Schwerin = Rostock - Neubrandenburg
  • Potsdam = Cottbus - Frankfurt
  • Dresden = Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) - Görlitz ( Sorbian )
  • Erfurt = Gera - Suhl
  • Leipzig = Halle - Magdeburg

The 1950s - a time of experimentation

The following years were a time of experimentation, both for the central and even more so for the regional programs - with regard to the frequencies, the transmission times and the respective broadcasting network of the regional programs. In 1955, for example, GDR broadcasting returned to the system of radio stations existing side by side with their own names and directors (Berliner Rundfunk, Radio DDR and Deutschlandsender). The larger district studios were again broadcast houses, to which smaller studios were affiliated. From the beginning of 1956, radio houses and studios were subordinate to Radio GDR and were integrated into its program structure. Potsdam and Frankfurt were assigned to the Berlin radio from 1958 to 1970.

Studio Schwerin had the status of a broadcasting house again, to which the studios in Rostock and Neubrandenburg were affiliated.

In addition to the transmission technology, the studio technology also belonged to Deutsche Post from 1956, without any real benefit being recognized - on the contrary, because the administrative effort increased considerably.

As a result of the experimental years, the GDR radio showed the following structure at the end of the 1950s:

Berlin radio
  • Berliner Rundfunk (entertainment and politics from and for East Berlin and the rest of the GDR)
  • Berliner Welle (entertainment and politics for West Berlin)
  • Regional programs and contributions from the Funkhaus Potsdam and the Studio Frankfurt (Oder) in both programs
Radio DDR
  • Regional programs from the district broadcasting houses and studios (from 1958 to 1970 except Potsdam and Frankfurt)

Deutschlandsender (program for all of Germany)

Radio Berlin International (broadcasts for foreign countries in various languages)

This created a radio structure in the GDR that was to last essentially until the end of the GDR.

Regional programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s

Since Radio DDR II only used its VHF network from 7:00 p.m. and later from 6:00 p.m. for its own broadcasts, Radio DDR I broadcast its programs over this network during the day. The broadcasting houses and studios in the districts integrated their regional windows into the program structure of Radio DDR I. They broadcast at different times for different durations throughout the day on frequencies of Radio DDR II - until the VHF network was fully expanded, also on radio DDR-I frequencies. On the day of the program, Monday, December 28, 1959, the Funkhaus Leipzig broadcast three regional windows with a total broadcast time of 4 hours and 55 minutes, while the Studio Suhl only broadcast one district window within the Weimar regional program of 5 minutes. Karl-Marx-Stadt , Gera and Halle did not broadcast at all that day. The Funkhaus Schwerin achieved a transmission time of 1 hour and 45 minutes with two windows, the Studio Neubrandenburg on two separate district VHF frequencies on 10 minutes.

The Potsdam broadcaster - with the Frankfurt / Oder studio assigned to the Berliner Rundfunk from 1958 to 1970 - broadcast a program of 1 hour and 10 minutes in the central morning program of the Berliner Rundfunk and 2 hours a regional window for on program day Monday, December 28, 1959 the Potsdam district in the afternoon program of Berliner Welle. Frankfurt (Oder) did not broadcast at all.

From January 1963, all broadcasting houses and any connected studios broadcast their daily regional programs uniformly on a Radio DDR II frequency: Mondays to Saturdays from 6:00 p.m. to 6:55 p.m. and Sundays from 7:10 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - including the one Transmitter Schwerin.

Funkhaus Schwerin

After a new start in regional programming was made in the summer of 1953 with a modest half hour for Schwerin, Rostock and Neubrandenburg, the program volume of the broadcasting network increased to one to three regional windows with a total broadcast time of one to three hours. As a rule, these were two windows of a total of two hours a day, of which Schwerin had the lion's share. This regional broadcast volume was only half of the daily regional broadcasting time from before 1952.

The production profile of the broadcasting network comprised regionally-related programs on business, culture, education, agriculture and sport, classical and folk music, service and entertainment and, until 1959, the seafarers' greetings and wishes and other maritime programs from the Rostock studio .

Since the Schwerin transmitter used a particularly powerful medium wave transmitter, the broadcasting company also produced programs that were aimed at listeners in the north of the Federal Republic of Germany and reported on events in Hamburg , Bremen , Schleswig-Holstein and Lower Saxony .

Frequent frequency changes proved to be unfavorable for the accessibility of listeners in their own region and their consumption of regional programs. In some areas, the broadcasting network broadcast its two regional windows alternately over two different frequencies. In addition, it was not possible for many listeners to receive the programs broadcast via VHF because the GDR retailers did not yet offer radio sets with an FM receiver in sufficient quantities or these receivers were relatively expensive and therefore initially unaffordable for many.

In addition to the regional offer, there were regular or sporadic broadcasts in the central morning and evening programs and, from September 1959 to November 1961, the regular organization of the central radio GDR night program - in the night from Friday to Saturday from 1:00 a.m. to 3:45 a.m.

In addition, the Schweriner Funkhaus realized music and radio play productions as well as book readings - mainly of Low German works - as well as public events in the large broadcasting hall and other public broadcasting locations for its own regional program and the central programs.

In order to be able to continue to fulfill the upcoming production tasks in satisfactory quality and quantity, in 1957/1958 the small broadcasting hall in the Schwerin broadcasting house was renovated and modernized. A technically well-equipped outdoor studio also went into operation in 1962 with the completion of the Schwerin sports and congress hall. With the inclusion of one or more outside broadcast vehicles, it could be used for the transmission of cultural and sporting events. Also for the Studio Neubrandenburg in the town hall Neubrandenburg, for broadcasts of sports and cultural events.

Nevertheless, the district broadcasting houses always lagged behind the Berlin broadcasting house in terms of technical equipment - the district studios even more. The Funkhaus Leipzig was an exception, later also the Funkhaus Rostock.

Rostock transmitter

The Rostock studio was an independent broadcasting company from February 1959, which was no longer under the control of the Schwerin broadcasting company, and began broadcasting in May of the same year. Schwerin and Neubrandenburg now alone formed a broadcast network.

Studio Neubrandenburg

In connection with the formation of the districts and the centralization of radio programs, the State Broadcasting Committee installed a radio studio in Neubrandenburg, which had advanced to become a district town, in October 1952, initially with provisional and from spring 1953 with the necessary stationary technology. The studio was located in a villa at Berliner Straße 110 and produced deliveries of small contributions for the broadcasting houses in Berlin, Leipzig and Schwerin, and from 1959 also small regional broadcasts for the district outside the Schwerin / Neubrandenburg broadcasting network on local VHF frequencies.

With the formation of the Rostock studio technical work area in the Rostock radio house , the Neubrandenburg studio was editorially assigned to the Schwerin radio house from 1959, and the Rostock radio house in terms of studio and transmission technology.

Broadcasting in the region from 1964 to 1983

The 1960s and 1970s were years in which GDR broadcasting achieved continuity in regional broadcasting, which was accompanied by a gradual increase in regional offers.

Uniform regional offers from 1964

After twelve years of experimentation, in June 1964 the regional programs were again restructured, which should ultimately lead to continuity in terms of frequencies, broadcast times and broadcast networks. Listener research had shown that the audience ratings were highest in the early hours of the morning and in the morning. On average, most GDR residents listened to the radio for around 40 minutes in the morning. This prompted the GDR broadcasters to broadcast six regional programs from 6:05 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on the frequencies of Radio DDR II - with the exception of Rostock and Cottbus, all in a broadcasting network in which one or two studios were assigned to a broadcasting house.

Radio DDR II broadcast the following regional programs:

Neubrandenburg
  • Cottbus (with Studio Bautzen )
  • Dresden - Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • Weimar (with office in Erfurt) - Gera - Suhl
  • Leipzig - Halle - Magdeburg

The Potsdam transmitter and the Frankfurt (Oder) studio continued to belong to the Berliner Rundfunk until 1970 and broadcast on its frequencies - Potsdam on weekdays from 6:05 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. and from 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. Clock, Frankfurt from 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. - later at other times, but as the only district station not in the early hours of the morning.

Schwerin transmitter from 1964 to 1983

The station Schwerin and the Studio Neubrandenburg continued to work together in a network, with Neubrandenburg initially being the only studio that broadcast its own regional window within the network - weekdays from 6:05 a.m. to 7:57 a.m. Otherwise, Neubrandenburg took over the program from Schwerin or was involved in it.

Over the years, the Schwerin regional program consisted of a two-hour, later three-hour morning magazine, followed by greetings and wishes as well as a music program or a service magazine, reports or programs on local history and the like. Ä. The production profile remained unchanged: music and radio play productions as well as book readings - mostly Low German literature. Central news came from the main news department in the Berliner Funkhaus, regional news from the Funkhaus Schwerin and Studio Neubrandenburg.

It turned out to be unfavorable for the acceptance of the regional programs that two radio programs had to share a frequency on the allocated frequencies that had nothing in common with each other in terms of the program mandate and its design. The regional program was familiar, homely and entertaining, while Radio DDR II was a cultural and educational channel with a lot of classical and serious music as well as a high proportion of verbal contributions, so that after switching to the central program at 10:00 there was always a style break. or the listener switched to another wave and back again the next day. The exclusive transmission on VHF and the low level of equipment in GDR households with VHF radio receivers in the 1960s also had a negative effect on the reception of regional programs.

From 1965 to 1967, the Studio I of the Rostock Ostseestudios of the German television station had to be demolished and rebuilt as it no longer met the requirements of efficient television productions. The television production projects had to the circumstances of smaller and lower, now with its own director appointed studios II customize and many productions are realized outside the Baltic Sea Studios - z. B. Recordings in theaters, realization of entertainment programs in restaurants, clubhouses, etc. For television game productions, the Ostseestudio used the large broadcasting hall of the Schwerin broadcasting company during this time.

In the summer of 1968, the Neubrandenburg studio closed its early regional window and worked with the Schwerin broadcaster to design the morning magazine, which was extended by one hour in October of the same year by bringing the start of broadcasting forward to 5:05 a.m.

In 1970 the Schwerin broadcasting station began broadcasting stereo music tapes , and from 1973 onwards with stereo music production.

In March 1975 Studio Neubrandenburg started its own morning magazine as a regional window program within the broadcasting network from 5:05 a.m. to 7:35 a.m. - from January 1978 until 8:00 a.m.

Alternating with the broadcasters in Leipzig, Dresden and Weimar, from 1979 onwards the Schwerin broadcasting station organized a Schwerin evening in the evening program of Radio DDR II at regular intervals on Tuesdays . That was five hours each with a lot of classical music and reports from the cultural and intellectual life of the Schwerin district. Other centrally broadcast programs were Zur Abendstunde with folk music in the previous evening and today from the Schwerin station on the night program of Radio DDR I - usually once a year.

A cooperation existed between the station Schwerin and the Studio Neubrandenburg on the one hand and the station Rostock on the other hand. B. at the original weather talk. In addition, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg took part to a small extent in the program of the "Radio DDR" -Ferienwelle , which the Rostock station broadcast since 1967 from May to September over extended frequencies in the three northern districts.

In January 1983, the Schwerin broadcaster broadcast the first Plappermöhl, an extremely successful Low German talk show with lots of humor up Platt. The Plappermöhl is the only broadcast of the Schweriner Funkhaus that survived the turmoil and was and still is continued in the state radio program of NDR-1-Radio-MV .

Regional programs in the late 1970s and early 1980s

By the end of 1978, Radio DDR had created a structure of 11 regional offers, in which four studios broadcast window programs in a network with a broadcasting company, two of which alternated between two studios. The broadcasting houses broadcast five hours a day, the studios three hours, the Rostock broadcaster 15 hours from May to September, which corresponded to an average weekly broadcast time of 51 hours:

Neubrandenburg
  • Potsdam
  • Frankfurt
Karl Marx City
  • Weimar (with office in Erfurt) - Gera - Suhl
  • Leipzig
Halle / Magdeburg

Thus, the station Schwerin broadcast five hours from 5:05 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., two hours of which together with the Studio Neubrandenburg, the Studio Neubrandenburg three hours from 5:05 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. with a morning magazine as a window program within the broadcasting network Schwerin. This was followed by the takeover of the Schwerin program or participation in it. Broadcasting on the weekend started at 6:05 a.m. - usually by the Schwerin broadcaster.

Broadcasting the region in the 1980s

The regional structure at Radio DDR, which had been established by 1978, had existed until the mid-1980s. Then the GDR radio began to expand the regional programs in the long term.

Schwerin transmitter from 1983 to 1989

The expansion plans for the regional programs meant that from the spring of 1985 Studio Neubrandenburg also broadcast on Saturdays from 6:05 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., and from May 1986 the Schwerin station extended its program to 1:00 p.m. - but after 10 a.m. : 00 am not yet in association with Neubrandenburg. The broadcast of the extended program took place on a frequency of the youth radio DT 64 , which is currently being developed, and which did not begin its program until 1 p.m., so that the break in style when switching to the central program on this frequency was less sharp than when switching on one frequency from Radio DDR II, the cultural and educational program.

Studio Neubrandenburg expanded its program from September 1986 and broadcast until 10:00 a.m., on Saturdays until 9:30 a.m.

After the music production had gradually shifted from the Funkhaus Schwerin to the Funkhaus Rostock anyway , the Rostock Funkhaus took over almost the entire music production of the Ostseestudios Rostock of the GDR television and after further technical expansion and equipping of the necessary peripheral and digital technology of its control room 3 from 1985 that of the Funkhaus Schwerin. As a result, the large broadcasting hall of the Schwerin broadcasting house was less used and lost in importance.

Radio play production also increasingly shifted from the Funkhaus Schwerin to Rostock to the technically better equipped radio house there.

Regional programs from December 1987

By December 1987, the planned expansion of the regional programs was largely completed. The broadcasting houses and studios were no longer subject to Radio GDR, but had a kind of directorship in Berlin. The broadcasting houses broadcast on frequencies from Radio DDR II, the start of which had been postponed to 1:00 p.m., and partly on frequencies from the youth radio DT 64, which was developed into a full program, from 4: 05/5: 05 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the studios - they called themselves sender now - from 4: 05/5: 05 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. Leipzig and later Rostock in its winter program also broadcast a regional window from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. All former studios were part of a broadcast network with a larger broadcasting company. The weekday transmission time for all 11 regional programs was 87 hours.

By 1989/90, the regional programs should develop again in such a way that Halle and Magdeburg broadcast separately from January 1989 and the Studio Bautzen in the House of the Sorbs broadcast a one-and-a-half-hour morning magazine in Sorbian from October 1989 - later expanded to three hours . This increased the weekly transmission time of the now 13 regional programs to 95 hours.

Neubrandenburg
  • Potsdam
Frankfurt (Oder)
  • cottbus
Bautzen (Sorbian)
  • Dresden
Karl Marx City
  • Weimar (with office in Erfurt) - Gera - Suhl
  • Leipzig
Hall
Magdeburg.

Response to the new regional offers

For Schwerin and Neubrandenburg, almost everything initially stayed the same. Schwerin broadcast eight hours from 5:05 a.m. to 1 p.m., Neubrandenburg five hours from 5:05 a.m. to 10:00 a.m., then together with Schwerin through takeover or participation. Broadcasting on weekends and public holidays started at 6:05 a.m., with Neubrandenburg only broadcasting until 9:30 a.m. on Saturdays and until 10:00 a.m. on Sundays due to the sports program from Schwerin.

However, Schwerin no longer broadcast on frequencies from DT 64, but only on radio DDR II frequencies with the aforementioned break in style when switching to the central program. Nevertheless, the new regional programs showed a positive effect on listener behavior. The regional stations were able to gain new listeners with their new offerings - at the expense of the central programs - which was certainly due to the increased level of FM radio receivers in the meantime.

Time of political upheaval and after reunification

The time of political upheaval in all GDR districts - the future countries - was characterized by the endeavor to reorganize the entire editorial and technical production potential of radio and television in the region in order to build an independent radio system at the state level, independent of the headquarters in Berlin. Many of these plans, however, were unrealistic and had no prospect of realization from the outset.

Mecklenburg Radio Schwerin

As early as the fall of 1989, the program from Schwerin was called Mecklenburg-Radio Schwerin. The regional offers from Schwerin and Neubrandenburg as well as from Rostock initially continued as usual.

In the spring of 1990 the three radio locations in Schwerin and Neubrandenburg as well as Rostock began to put their heads together. From the three regional programs with a weekly broadcast volume of 25 hours, a full program for the future state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was initially to be launched - partly on frequencies and at the expense of the central programs from Berlin. A total of four utopian programs were planned for the future, sparsely populated state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Radio Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (RMV)

In June 1990 the broadcasting of the new radio offer Radio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - RMV with the two programs RMV 1 and RMV-Ferienwelle was started. The headquarters of the Landesfunkhaus was in Rostock. The Rostock Funkhaus was larger and more modern than the one in Schwerin, and with a view to a fusion of radio and television, a television studio complex, the Ostseestudio Rostock of the German TV broadcaster, was located near the Funkhaus. In addition, Rostock was - in contrast to Schwerin - more populous and economically and scientifically more important city as the state capital.

RMV 1 was a joint program of the broadcasting houses in Rostock and Schwerin and the studio in Neubrandenburg, each with its own regional window. Most of the program was designed by the Funkhaus Schwerin, and it included a lot of pop, hits and folk music, as well as a large proportion of regional and national information and light entertainment. The program was aimed primarily at middle-aged and more mature cohorts of locals and tourists who were very well received with this mixture.

The RMV holiday wave - a lively youth program with the latest music - designed almost exclusively the Rostock broadcasting company and should actually broadcast all year round. Due to the strong youth-oriented music orientation of the program, the holiday wave no longer reached a large part of the former audience. B. the middle and more mature age groups, which included the majority of the tourists coming mainly from West Germany and who, as mentioned above, primarily listened to RMV 1 - which would have made the station name Ferienwelle obsolete.

With these offers, the weekly transmission time of the three radio locations increased from 25 to 37 hours. For comparison: The regional broadcasting houses of the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) were broadcasting around 17½ hours of regional radio programs each week. As expected, this could not be achieved in the long term with the existing workforce and production capacities. The previously large volume of music and radio play productions had to be cut back significantly. The RMV holiday wave as a second program could no longer be held. The holiday wave therefore only broadcast regional windows on the second radio program of the North German Broadcasting Corporation - NDR 2 -, which broadcast its program across Mecklenburg-West Pomerania without it being foreseeable that the North German Broadcasting Corporation would become the state broadcasting company for Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.

Since in the meantime Schwerin and not Rostock had become the state capital and there was only one television correspondent's office in Schwerin and Neubrandenburg , television had to react. For the current political coverage from the state capital of Schwerin who directed television studio complex Rostock in the Great Broadcasting Hall of the radio house Schwerin, a television studio one. This provisional studio was significantly larger than the final television studio that went into operation in 1998 in the new state broadcasting house.

In Greifswald , Radio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern set up a radio studio for regional reporting.

After German reunification , there was a strong tug-of-war between the states of the NDR broadcasting area ( Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) on the one hand and Berlin and Brandenburg on the other over Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's membership of a state broadcaster from 1992 onwards the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany was under the Broadcasting (radio and television) in accordance with Article 36 of the unification Treaty that of Chancellor Helmut Kohl used from Bayern upcoming broadcast Commissioner for the new Federal states, Rudolf Mühlfenzl . This had the task of transferring the former state radio and the state television into federal structures or winding up.

It was clear to everyone involved that an independent state broadcaster for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was out of the question for economic reasons. Participation in the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) or the founding of a "North-East German Broadcasting Corporation - NORA" with the states of Berlin and Brandenburg were up for grabs, as a result of which Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein made the race with the NDR.

NDR State Broadcasting House

NDR-Landesfunkhaus Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Schloßgartenallee 61

After the North German Broadcasting Corporation had become the state broadcaster for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on January 1, 1992, the state broadcasting company was located in the state capital Schwerin. The NDR bundled most of the radio capacity in the Funkhaus in the Schweriner Schlossgartenallee. From there he broadcast the NDR state program NDR 1 Radio MV, which was to become the NDR's most successful radio program. In contrast, the holiday wave from Rostock - the unloved child at the NDR headquarters - only led a shadowy existence. It was no longer granted a long life because it did not fit into the NDR radio structure.

Television - now combined with radio on NDR - initially broadcast primarily from the old television studio complex in Rostock.

Radio MV basically continued the program concept adopted by the regional programs and further developed from 1990 onwards, whereby Radio MV was in any case in conformity with the program orientation of the other NDR regional broadcasters.

In the 1990s, the NDR began building a new broadcasting house, which began digital radio operations in 1997 as the most modern broadcasting company in Europe at the time. The NDR gave up the old television studio complex in Rostock in 1998, and the production capacities of television moved to Schwerin, the Landesfunkhaus, Hamburg and Rostock Funkhaus.

The Landesfunkhaus is located near the south-west bank of Lake Schwerin in the Ostorf district . It is located on the Ostorfer Hals, which has established itself as the so-called Schlossgartenviertel since the fall of the Wall as a particularly high-quality residential area, in which, in addition to the partly listed old-style villas, a number of new buildings have been built.

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p LIA-Archiv Wegner, LIA-Hamburg
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Horst Zänger: Stories from 50 Years of Broadcasting - Chronicle of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Broadcasting Corporation. Publisher Rihard Thon Schwerin 1995
  3. ↑ Part of the program in Der Rundfunk. Born 1949 (1-52), Deutscher Funk Verlag GmbH Berlin, SO 36, 1949
  4. ↑ a b c part of the program in Der Rundfunk. Born 1953 (1-52), Ed .: State Broadcasting Committee of the GDR via Henschelverlag Art and Society Berlin (GDR) 1953
  5. ↑ 1st workshop December 17, 1991 - beginning of broadcasting in 1945 , in: The new time moves with us ... Heide Riedel (Ed.), Vistas Verlag Berlin 1992
  6. ↑ Heinz-Florian Oertel: High time. Das Neue Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft, Berlin 1997 (3rd edition 1998)
  7. ↑ a b Eberhard Fensch: So and only better - How Honecker imagined television. Das Neue Berlin Verlag, Berlin 2003
  8. ^ LIA Archive Wegner, ibid
  9. ↑ Part of the program in Der Rundfunk. 1952/1953, Ed .: State Broadcasting Committee of the GDR via Henschelverlag Art and Society Berlin (GDR) 1953
  10. ↑ a b part of the program in Der Rundfunk. 1952–1964, Ed .: State Broadcasting Committee of the GDR via Henschelverlag Art and Society Berlin (GDR) 1953
  11. ↑ a b part of the program and "contributions" in FF accompanying. Years 1964–1978, Berliner Verlag Berlin 1964–1978
  12. ↑ a b Hans-Helmut Pentzien: Ostseestudio Rostock 1962–1991 - From the point of view of a cameraman. Redieck & Schade publishing house 2012
  13. ↑ a b c d e part of the program and "contributions" in FF accompanying. Born 1978–1990, Berliner Verlag Berlin 1978–1990
  14. ↑ Location with tradition - the NDR in the Schlossgartenallee. ndr.de