Space night

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Television series
Original title space night
Space Night 2013.svg
Country of production Germany
original language German
Year (s) since 1994
Production
company		 Bavarian radio
genre Science show
music GEMA-free titles
First broadcast June 1, 1994 on Bavarian TV

Space Night (full title: space night - All-day nachts ) is a program format broadcast on ARD-alpha and BR television in the early hours of the morning.

development

Replacement for test image

BR editors and science fiction fans Georg Scheller and Andreas Bönte came up with the idea of ​​replacing the monotonous test image on Bavarian television with images from space . First of all, they used images and film scenes for this, taken by the German reusable science satellite ASTRO-SPAS, which had been transported into space four times with the NASA Space Shuttle and which delivered its last film sequences in 1997.

Started in June 1994

Space Night started on Bavarian television on June 1, 1994. Georg Scheller and his team edited the sequences recorded by the NASA Space Shuttle and added spherical music to them. Since they didn't want to send the same images seven days a week, Bönte and Scheller turned to NASA , ESA and the German Aerospace Center, DLR . They had hours of recordings of sequences in and around space, which were made available to the Bavarian radio free of charge.

Cult status and music

Space Night quickly became a "cult" : At raves in the mid-1990s, it was not uncommon for the images of Space Night to be shown on TV screens. After the early morning raves, Space Night was and is often used to chill out , especially since from 1996 the sound of Space Night became very electronic thanks to the musical advice of Alex Azary , a European chill-out DJ. The involvement of Alex Azary was initiated by Georg Scheller. Azary ran the Club XS in Frankfurt, where chill-out nights started in 1990, which were accompanied by spherical music. In addition, the images of Space Night ran, but played a little slower. These pictures went well with the then new style of music and Alex Azary felt he had to show this to the people at BR. There was a meeting in Munich, where Azary was able to convince the initiators of the show Georg Scheller and Andreas Bönte, as well as the Space Night team, to dare to try something new.

The pieces of music are also available as separate CDs , the mixing from the album Space Night II onwards is done by Elektrolux . In the meantime, twelve CD albums with music for the series have been released, with three albums differing significantly from the other musical style. In Space Night Vol. 1 is an album of pop music at Space Night Vol. 10 for an album with jazz music and Space Night Vol. 12 is a double CD with classical music . A DVD called Best of Earth Views is also available .

Obstacles and problems

Following a tariff reform by GEMA , Bayerischer Rundfunk stated that it no longer wanted to continue the program due to the significantly higher royalties at the turn of the year 2012/2013. Due to this, the broadcast was initially stopped from January 8, 2013. There were violent audience protests against the decision to take the show off the program after 20 years. The inventor of the program Georg Scheller described the old "Space Night" as urgently in need of reform. He pointed out that some of the pictures and film scenes came from the early days of space travel, and some of them were shot on 16 mm film. Because of the commitment of the viewers, the BR revised its decision to discontinue the program and has since broadcast the program again using GEMA-free music , initially with repetitions of older programs and since autumn 2013 with new episodes. The broadcaster uses music with Creative Commons licenses. The restart was planned for November 1, 2013, but was temporarily postponed to November 15, 2013 because NASA was unable to provide the required images in time due to the government shutdown in the United States . Finally, on November 16, 2013, the new Space Night started, right at the start with spectacular images from Earth's orbit in HD quality and rhythmic sounds from the CC area. Some of the images are now broadcast in HD quality. They still come from space agencies such as the European ESA or the US NASA. The German Aerospace Center (DLR), the European Southern Observatory Eso, universities and institutes also contribute their views from space.

Shipment structure

The Space Night program is composed of several individual programs. It is designed to be exactly the same every day within a month. The program will be changed in the next month, but will remain the same on the same days of the week. No Space Night will be broadcast on Friday and Saturday nights.

In contrast to its program components, the Space Night usually has no opening or closing credits.

There are two things you can tell that programs are part of Space Night:

  1. For some programs, the text "space night" is displayed in the lower right corner of the screen and
  2. no program preview is broadcast between programs.

The following programs never all appear in a space night. Instead, the programs from the beginning of Space Night are repeated. If a program (repeated within the Space Night) lasts longer than the Space Night, it is ended in the middle.

Special programs

Moon landing

Since the 25th anniversary of the first manned moon landing (1994), the original version of the television broadcast of the first program has been broadcast on Space Night at the exact time of the event. The original version is longer than a space night and is therefore not shown in full.

Perry Rhodan

For the 40th anniversary of the Perry Rhodan series , the Perry Rhodan Space Night ran in 2001 . Pictures by the cover artist Johnny Bruck were animated: galaxies, planets, spaceships, people and aliens move through the originally static picture - a visual journey through the Perry-Rhodan universe. All of this is accompanied by the usual atmospheric electronic music. After the TV broadcast, which was repeated for several weeks, a video DVD and a music double CD were released under the title space night presents: Perry Rhodan 40th Anniversary-Special Sci-Fi Edition .

Ariane

Between 1995 and 2003, Space Night showed almost all of the launches of the European Ariane 4 and 5 launch vehicles. Of these, around 25 launches were broadcast live, the launch windows of which were in the broadcast times of Space Night. The other launches were either staggered or recorded. Most of the live programming produced by Arianespace with the original English commentary was taken over via satellite. With only a few starts, Georg Scheller and Andreas Bönte organized their own direct broadcast from Kourou and commented on the countdown and the events leading up to the launch of the payloads with German-speaking space engineers who were involved in the Ariane program. This concerned the 100th Ariane launch (Vol 100), the second launch of Ariane 5 (Vol 101), as well as the launches Vol 95 and Vol 113 (both Ariane 4 ).

ISS and Alexander Gerst

Bayerischer Rundfunk accompanied the "space adventure" by and with ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst on the International Space Station ISS in numerous specials and extra broadcasts as part of Space Night, but also in other broadcast formats of Bavarian television . The broadcast episodes began with the start on May 26, 2014, then again and again from the 166-day "Blue Dot" mission u. a. about exciting experiments in physics, biology and human physiology, from the climax of the landing on November 10th, 2014. Much of it is available on the internet site of Bayerischer Rundfunk.

Space Night in Concert

In 2019 there was two public events and television recording of the Space Night in Concert with the Munich Radio Orchestra , space images and astronauts as interview partners.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Radio and television: BR program. Accessed January 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Space Night Encyclopedia, accessed on November 22, 2014 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christian-rottmann.de
  3. ↑ Scheller meets Azary, accessed on November 22, 2014 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.christian-rottmann.de
  4. ↑ G.Scheller on the cult factor Space Night, accessed on November 23, 2014
  5. ^ Research Institute: Space Night on BR-Alpha. Retrieved January 17, 2013 .
  6. ↑ Space Night Comeback, welt.de, accessed on December 22, 2015
  7. ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: On February 25th again in the program: Return of "Space Night". Retrieved January 24, 2012 .
  8. ↑ Heise online: Space Night continues with music under CC license. Retrieved February 19, 2013 .
  9. ↑ Heise online: Space Night postponed due to US budget dispute. Retrieved October 15, 2013 .
  10. ↑ The editor of Space Night, accessed on May 19, 2016
  11. ^ BR-Mediathek Alexander Gerst etc., accessed on November 24, 2014
  12. ^ Bönte interviews Gerst, accessed on November 24, 2014
  13. ↑ Videos about ISS and Alexander Gerst on BR-Online, accessed on November 24, 2014
  14. ^ Space Night in Concert, ARD-alpha. Accessed December 31, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Multimedia journey into space & homage to 25 years of Space Night: SPACE NIGHT in Concert II. Accessed December 31, 2019 .