Sunday riddle

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Sunday riddle (formerly Das klingende Sonntag riddle ) is the name of a quiz show that has been broadcast on the radio since March 7, 1965 . It runs on Sundays at 9:30 a.m. in the Deutschlandfunk Kultur program . The program was developed by Hans Rosenthal and moderated by him for many years in the program of the Berlin radio station RIAS 1 after it was first broadcast .

Conception

The aim of the program is to find a six to seven-letter long solution word that results from the answers to questions about (in the vast majority of cases) six pieces of music played. The musical spectrum ranges from evergreen , chanson and folk song to opera and operetta to Dixieland jazz and pop music . The program's signature tune is the title “Around the World” from the film Around the World in 80 Days (1956), composed by Victor Young and recorded by the Mantovani orchestra .

Since May 19, 2013, the questions of the Sunday riddle can also be looked up online.

history

Hans Rosenthal with “Sunday riddles” on the occasion of the 1000th program Das Klingende Sonntagsriddle

The Sunday puzzle was developed by Hans Rosenthal and, after it was first broadcast on March 7, 1965, presented it for many years on the Berlin radio station RIAS 1 under the title The sounding Sunday puzzle. Initially, the broadcast of the program was only planned for a short time in order to be able to determine the number of RIAS listeners in the GDR based on the reply letters . Although the Ministry for State Security intercepted numerous letters, thousands of replies were sent to one of the RIAS top addresses (e.g. "Michaela Wegner, Berlin"). Because of the strong audience response, the program became a fixture on RIAS and remained in the program. In 1971, of almost 600,000 letters addressed to the RIAS, 512,000 were addressed to the Sunday riddle, more than 15,000 of them from the GDR. For several years the Sunday quiz was also on the Europawelle Saar of Saarland Radio sent.

Moderated by Heinz Eckner and directed by Hans Rosenthal, a television version of the successful guessing program under the title Ein Wort aus Musik was broadcast in the evening program of ZDF in 1981/1982 . With 1,117,101 responses to programs in the series, the ZDF received a greater response in 1981 than to Musik ist Trumpf (402,158 responses) and at the same time received most of the audience mail this year.

After Hans Rosenthal's death, his previous assistant and editor of the Christian Bienert program took over the moderation of the Sunday riddle in February 1987.

When the state controls of the post to and from West Berlin were discontinued in the course of the political change , the number of letters from the GDR skyrocketed. In September 1989 there were 500, in March 1990 the station received around 330,000 letters from eastern Germany alone, which now also contained short stories in addition to the answer. To this day, the editors of the Sunday riddle have received up to 2,000 correspondence every week, from which the moderator quotes regularly.

After Deutschlandfunk , DS Kultur and RIAS merged to form Deutschlandradio , the program was continued by DeutschlandRadio Berlin and later by Deutschlandradio Kultur , today's Deutschlandfunk Kultur . The two thousandth broadcast was broadcast on August 14, 2005. Christian Bienert moderated it for more than 1,300 weeks until the end of 2012. On January 6, 2013, Uwe Wohlmacher became his successor. He moderated the show until May 28, 2017, when he unexpectedly announced that this would be his last episode. On June 4, 2017, Wohlmacher introduced his successor Ralf Bei der Kellen at the beginning of episode 2601. On this occasion he mentioned that Werner Hass had been the first moderator of the Sunday riddle. That would make Bei der Kellen the fifth presenter of the show in 52 years. In the broadcast on March 11, 2018, Bei der Kellen reported on research in the German Broadcasting Archive , during which RIAS 2 program flags from March 7, 1965 were found. Then came Werner Hass's “The Sounding Sunday Riddle”, but the first program was already moderated by Hans Rosenthal.

Moderators

From 1965 to January 11, 1987, the day the 1,071. Episode, the show was moderated by Hans Rosenthal . Christian Bienert was the moderator from February 1987 to December 30, 2012 . It followed on January 6, 2013 with the 2,372. Follow Uwe Wohlmacher , who had been asking the puzzles in summer since 2010. He moderated his last Sunday puzzle on May 28, 2017. On June 4, 2017, with the 2601st episode, Ralf Bei der Kellen took over the moderation.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The Sunday puzzle goes online . On: dradio.de on May 31, 2013
  2. a b East-West entertainment in the Cold War: 50 years of musical Sunday riddles; March 11, 2015 by Ralf Bei der Kellen
  3. a b c Christian Bienert: Letters that never reached us - the “Sounding Sunday Riddle” and the letters from the GDR ( Memento of the original from August 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.riasberlin.de archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . On: riasberlin.de
  4. Christian Sywottek: Die Rätsel-Familie ( Memento of the original from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brandeins.de archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on: brandeins.de in June 2009. Retrieved on February 19, 2014.
  5. Deike Diening: Broadcasting that radiates around . On: tagesspiegel.de on March 5, 2005
  6. Bienert announced in the broadcast of December 16, 2012 that he was leaving at the end of 2012
  7. New moderator: Ralf Bei der Kellen takes over the Sunday puzzle. Deutschlandfunk Kultur , June 4, 2017, accessed on June 5, 2017 .