Where the shoe pinches us
Where our shoe pinches was a weekly radio series founded by Ernst Reuter in 1948 , which was initially broadcast on NWDR Berlin and from 1951 on RIAS . In 1963, the SFB adopted the format in its regional television program.
In this broadcast, the Governing Mayor of Berlin spoke directly to the population without any editorial support.
The last edition of the series ran on May 6, 1978 with the Governing Mayor Dietrich Stobbe . This followed a roughly one-year public debate that Heinrich Lummer , member of the SFB Broadcasting Council and CDU - parliamentary group in the Berlin House had triggered. The CDU saw the radio being "exploited for party political purposes", because up to and including Stobbe, all the ruling mayors of Berlin - with the exception of Reuter's direct successor after his death, Walther Schreiber (CDU) - had been party members of the SPD.
The long-time RIAS program director Herbert Kundler characterizes the series under Reuter in retrospect as a "conversation with the citizen". She gave "accountability, invited criticism and advice, explained, encouraged, rejected what must not take up space in a liberal, human-made democracy."
Individual evidence
- ^ ARD Chronicle, November 18, 1951
- ↑ 55 years of Berliner Abendschau
- ^ ARD Chronicle, May 6, 1978
- ↑ Foot pain , Die Zeit , May 19, 1978.
- ↑ Herbert Kundler on Ernst Reuter: Where the shoe pinches us ... , RIAS, July 29, 1989.