Sorbian radio

Logo of the MDR edition since May 1st, 2017

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Logo of the MDR edition until April 30, 2017

As Sorbischer Rundfunk ( Lower Sorbian : Serbski rozgłos , Upper Sorbian : Serbski rozhłós ^{? / I} ), the program of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in the two Sorbian standard languages referred.

history

Beginnings until 1955

As early as the late 1920s and early 1930s, individual Sorbs (including Bjarnat Krawc ) made sporadic attempts to broadcast Sorbian-language programs on German radio stations. In the music archive of the studio in Bautzen there is an incompletely dated and localized vocal recording, which was probably made by the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG Leipzig in 1928.

In the years 1946/47, the Czechoslovak Radio in Prague broadcast Sorbian programs several times, which were initiated by the Sorbian National Council.

The first Sorbian-language radio broadcast on German soil was on October 14, 1948. At the urging of the then Domowina chairman Paul Nedo , 15-minute broadcasts were broadcast every fortnight on the Dresden (partly Leipzig ) station and from 1953 also from Potsdam in Lower Sorbian broadcast. However, due to the constant change in broadcast times and frequencies, the programs only met with little response.

At the request of Domowina, a Sorbian studio was founded on March 22, 1953 at the State Broadcasting Committee of the GDR. The studio was based in Görlitz . Although it was outside the remaining Sorbian language area, it was well equipped for broadcasting. The head of the studio - Klaus Hemmo from Krauschwitz - was the only journalist of Sorbian origin on the GDR radio at the time. His employees had no journalistic qualifications, a music or word tape archive was not available and had to be built on the side. The broadcast time was 70 minutes a week in the first few years; The program was broadcast on the medium-wave transmitter Reichenbach near Löbau.

The broadcasts of the Görlitzer Studios were initially almost exclusively in Upper Sorbian. From 1955 onwards, contributions in Lower Sorbian were added irregularly, and from April 1, 1956 the broadcasting time was extended to 90 minutes a week, 20 minutes of which in Lower Sorbian.

Radio DDR with Sorbian editorial staff

On December 31, 1956, the Sorbian studio was dissolved by the State Broadcasting Committee and continued as the Sorbian editorial office of Radio DDR , Sender Cottbus . Programs from the Sorbian Studio Bautzen in Upper Sorbian and from the Cottbus editorial team in Lower Sorbian were broadcast on the Groß Zeißig broadcaster near Hoyerswerda. Religious broadcasts only started in autumn 1988. They were initiated by the Bautzen studio manager who was later transferred from Cottbus to Bautzen, Helmut Richter (Sorbian: Helmut Rychtaŕ). Since 1987 he has been responsible for the expansion of the Bautzen studio, so that from autumn 1989 a daily Sorbian program lasting several hours could be broadcast.

Since 1990

After the fall of the Wall , the GDR radio landscape was also redesigned. The newly formed regional broadcaster Sachsen Radio took over the Sorbian program in August 1990.

On January 1, 1992, new public broadcasters were founded. The Upper Sorbian editorial team now belonged to the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) , the Lower Sorbian one to the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB) .

On April 19, 1992, the Lower Sorbian magazine Łužyca was broadcast on ORB television for the first time. In 2001, the Upper Sorbian magazine Wuhladko followed on MDR television . Since 1996, the Sandman has been broadcast on Sundays in two-channel sound in German and Upper Sorbian.

Since January 6, 2020, the Sorbian Radio of the MDR has been broadcasting a total of 27.5 hours per week instead of the previous 21.5 hours.

Radio

The broadcasts of the RBB are called Bramborske Serbske Radijo (German Brandenburgisch-Sorbisches Radio ) and are broadcast in Lower Sorbian / Wendish from the RBB studio at Berliner Straße  155 in Cottbus (on the Internet at www.rbb-online.de/radio/ sorbisches_programm / sorbisches_programm.html the current program can be heard up to the broadcast on the next day). The programs of the MDR are called Serbski Rozhłós (German Sorbian Broadcasting ) and are broadcast in Upper Sorbian from the MDR studio in the house of the Sorbs in Bautzen (on the Internet only as a live stream at www.mdr.de/serbski-program/rundfunk).

Broadcast times

The Sorbian program does not broadcast all day, but only for a few hours a day. During the rest of the time, a program of the respective broadcaster is broadcast on the frequencies . It is broadcast at the following times:

• Monday to Friday from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. - MDR's early morning magazine
• Monday to Friday from 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. - RBB program
  • Mondays: Łužyca cora a źinsa (German Lusatia yesterday and today )
  • Tuesdays: Muzika - rad słyšana (German music - glad to hear )
  • Wednesdays: Magacin k połudnju (German The current midday magazine )
  • Thursdays: Łužyske impresije (German Lusatian Impressions )
  • Fridays: Muzika a porucenja (German music and service )
• Monday to Friday from 7 to 8 p.m. - RBB program
  • Repetition of the broadcast from 12 noon
  • first Thursday of the month: approx. 12:10 p.m., half-hour youth magazine Bubak
• Monday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. - MDR radio satkula youth magazine
• Saturday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. - MDR's early morning magazine
• Sunday and public holidays from 11 a.m. to 12.30 p.m. - MDR family program
• Sunday and public holidays from 12:30 p.m. to 2 p.m. - RBB family program

reception

frequency	Transmitter location	ERP	Program outside of airtime
093.4 MHz	Cottbus / Calau	30 kW	Info radio
100.4 MHz	Hoyerswerda	30 kW	MDR Saxony (with the regional program from Bautzen )
202.928 MHz, channel 9A, DAB +, 80 kbps, Identifier: "MDR SACHSEN SORB" or "MDR SORB"	Hoyerswerda Leipzig / Messegrund Oschatz / Collmberg Löbau / Schafberg Dresden-Wachwitz Neustadt (Saxony) / Unger Freiberg Ost Chemnitz-Reichenhain Chemnitz / Geyer Auerbach / Schöneck	08.9 kW 10 , 0kW 09.3 kW 06 , 0kW 10 , 0kW 05 , 0kW 01 , 0kW 10 , 0kW 10 , 0kW 10 , 0kW	MDR Saxony (transmitter package)

Television broadcasts

MDR and RBB each broadcast their own television programs in the Sorbian language. Since the programs of both companies are also broadcast via the Astra satellites, the programs can be received almost all over Europe.

On the first Saturday of the month, the MDR broadcasts Wuhladko on MDR television from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. (only in the Saxon program; Lindenstrasse is broadcast in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt at this time ). Repetition on the following Tuesday at 5:50 a.m. and in the RBB on the second Saturday of the month from 1:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. The RBB broadcasts its Sorbian television magazine Łužyca every third Saturday of the month from 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. on rbb television ; it is repeated on the following Tuesday in the night program and in the MDR (Saxon program) on the fourth Saturday of the month at 12:20 p.m. .

Footnotes

1. ↑ Łužyca. In: ABC of ARD. ARD , accessed on August 5, 2018 . 
2. ^ Sender table Saxony (DAB). VHF / TV working group e. V., accessed on February 27, 2017 . 

Web links

• Pages of the Sorbian program on the MDR website (with live stream)
• Pages of the Sorbian program on the website of the rbb
• History of Sorbian Broadcasting