Points in time

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Zeite is a women's political radio magazine on the public radio of the ARD , which was founded in 1979 by the then Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) and has been continued by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) since the merger in 2003 .

Since its inception, the program has undergone numerous reforms, has been broadcast on various radio waves and has fended off various attempts to abolish the program. The times have received several awards for their women's political reporting .

history

As part of the SFB-Radio-Spring, a program reform at the Sender Freies Berlin, the program Zeite was first broadcast on SFB 2 on April 5, 1979.

Originally, the SFB management wanted to set up a cozy, apolitical, relaxed morning magazine for the family program with consumer and parenting tips, cooking recipes and household tips. The editors and authors from the very beginning were influenced by the women's movement and gave the program, which was initially broadcast every week, a women's and socio-political orientation.

The main topics included equality, gender-specific education and school, women's health and women in the peace movement. Women’s projects from A for senior citizens' housing project to women’s health centers to Z for Central Institution for Women’s Research were presented. Important celebrities from politics, universities or art and culture were given space and airtime, as were women in their normal everyday work and life. Taboo topics such as violence against women and children, Paragraph 218 or rape and war were taken up again and again.

Right from the start, the makers wanted to show the everyday and living conditions for women, men and children with a decidedly feminine perspective, to question political and social framework conditions and their effects, especially from a feminist perspective.

The forms of broadcast of the times include reports, comments and reports as well as debates, interviews and public recordings. The editorial team also had the privilege of choosing the music for the show itself.

Points in time in the fight for receipt and transmission slot

In the course of its history, the program has changed broadcasting slots and radio waves several times due to program reforms and has been threatened with closure several times.

Start of transmission on SFB 2

The broadcast of the times began with the radio wave SFB 2, from Tuesday to Friday for one hour in the morning program between 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. The program offered listeners a recognizable structure: on Tuesdays topics related to health and consumers; Wednesdays interpersonal relationship issues man, woman, child, neighbor; thursdays topics on women and the public and on fridays culture and leisure.

Points in time on SFB 1

In autumn 1986, under the leadership of SFB director Lothar Loewe, a fundamental program structure reform for radio was worked out in order to stop radio listeners from migrating to other non-public broadcasters.

In this context, efforts were made to completely abolish the dates from January 1987. Thereupon a protest formed in the audience. A listener initiative made up of around 150 women of different age groups was founded in order to ensure that the program on women’s politics was preserved. The tenor of the protests was that women's issues were not a minority program. In an open letter to those responsible for the program, the initiative made it unequivocally clear that the protest would spread.

In addition, the times reached the second highest audience ratings for radio use in Berlin (West) .

As a result of the disputes, the program migrated from 1987 to SFB 1, a radio wave frequented primarily by older people. The transmission time was extended to two hours.

Points in time back to SFB 2

In spring 1990 another radio reform planned for May 1990 was made public at the SFB. The reason for this is the further decline in the SFB audience who had migrated to the RIAS and one hundred or six . Again, the times were up for discussion.

For those times, there was no longer any fixed broadcasting time for women's political reporting, which threatened to lose the editorial staff's autonomy. Again a public protest of a listeners' initiative formed. She called for one hour of broadcasting time on weekdays, a fixed slot, editorial autonomy and no budget cuts. A campaign was launched under the motto Hands off the timing. A collection of signatures was initiated by the Berliner FrauenfrAktion (own spelling). At the decisive meeting of the Broadcasting Council on March 12, 1990 , women demonstrated in front of the television center of the SFB. 60 women gained access to the broadcasting council meeting and presented the SFB director Günther von Lojewski with 1,600 signatures. In the course of the following weeks, the number of signatures for receiving the points in time grew to 3,000.

A compromise negotiated at the end of March 1990 means that the dates will be preserved. However, the program switched to a new frequency: the culture channel SFB 3 with a broadcast time between 12 and 1 p.m. The decision was accepted as a stopgap solution by the makers of the times.

Points in time on SFB 3

Just four years later the timing was on the brink again. This time as a broadcast by SFB 3. In mid-August 1994 both the wave boss Wilhelm Matejka and the program director Jens Wendland found the times to be old-fashioned and out of date and pushed for the broadcast to be abolished. The high level of acceptance of the program by the radio audience, however, spoke a different language. The change of the women's political program from SFB 2 to SFB 3 had even leaked the Kulturwelle to younger listeners. The persistent protest of a by no means exclusively female fan community and the intervention of many celebrities from politics and culture, such as Christine Bergmann, Ingrid Stahmer, Leonie Ossowski, Jutta Lampe, Helke Sander, Helga Königsdorf or Steffie Spira and Ulrich Roloff-Momin, prevented the end Broadcast. Efforts by the wave boss to shorten the program to 25 minutes and broadcast without music were not approved, and the midday broadcast time did not have to give way to a discussion round planned by the wave boss.

In April 1999, the events celebrated their 20th anniversary. And yet they were up for grabs again. The program should be moved to the evening program with a weak quota and the broadcast format shortened. The project was postponed only to be put back on the agenda of those responsible for the program in 2000. This time the supporters intensified their protest and threatened a fee boycott.

Times on rbb Kulturradio

Since the merger of SFB and ORB in 2003, the times have been broadcast on Radio Kultur and are now at home on Kulturradio with two current items in the daily program. An editorial team, which has meanwhile been reduced to 2.5 posts, hosts a debate and a magazine on the weekend and a background program on Tuesday evening, the cultural event.

Importance of the points in time

As a women's political magazine by women for women and men, the journalists and authors have always followed women's political issues. For the makers, it was important to consider from two perspectives: What women create, how they get involved and position themselves, and the analysis of established politics and their legislation from a feminist perspective.

The editorial team has never shied away from hot irons, and has always focused its attention more on political issues than classic women's issues.

The highlights of the show include The Long Night of Women on March 8, 1986 , which was broadcast throughout the ARD . Thematic weeks on sexuality, family, men were topics of conversation for weeks in the city of Berlin. Walter Momper, Governing Mayor, happened to be a live guest on the show at noon on November 9, 1989.

Awards

Documentations and features for which the Zeite editorial staff was responsible were awarded media prizes. The Juliane Bartel Prize in the radio category went to the author Astrid Springer in 2014 for “Despite working poor in old age” and in 2016 to Henriette Weg for the feature “Sick and slim - yellow card for third and fourth generation birth control pills”. The long-term radio report “Alone in a foreign country. Afghan refugee girls in Fürstenwalde and Berlin ”by Thomas Rautenberg was awarded the 2016 media prize from child and youth welfare.

Employees

The editorial staff at the time included women with a wide variety of educational and professional qualifications. Not all of them were trained journalists and Germanists. a. Political scientists, meteorologists , lawyers, translators, fashion designers and tailors.

Nationally known journalists and academics started their professional careers on the show. The editor-in-chief of the Frankfurter Rundschau , Bascha Mika , has published her first radio report at Zeiten. Moderator Anne Will completed several months in the editorial office during her traineeship and during this time she was publicly recognized as basic feminist training.

Even though the program was primarily female, men occasionally also took part.

Editors (selection)

Marie Asmussen, Petra Castell, Maria Heiderscheidt, Claudia Ingenhoven, Heike Kalnbach, Magdalena Kemper , Lydia Lange, Birgit Ludwig, Heide Oestreich, Anne Quirin, Tina Stock, Dörte Thormählen.

Program assistants

Dorothee Kattner, Heike Sauter, Gundi Seifert, Fedele Simshäuser,

Authors (selection)

Vera Block, Heike Brandt, Britta Bürger, Gudrun Damberg, Sylvia Conradt, Michaela Gericke, Hilke Grabow, Claudia Henne, Sigrid Hoff, Gundel Köbke, Lydia Lange, Frauke Langguth, Margit Miosga, Manuela Reichart, Birgit Schönberger, Susanne Seeland, Claudia Strauven , Gesine Strempel, Annette Wilmes, Henriette Wrege, Renée Zucker , Sabine Zurmühl .

Moderation (selection)

Britta Bürger, Petra Castell, Elke Gerdener, Andrea Kunsemüller, Margit Miosga, Heide Oestreich, Hans-Georg Palmowski, Manuela Reichart, Julia Riedhammer, Hilke Rusch, Gesche Schmoll, Margarete Steinhausen, Gesine Strempel , Susanne Utsch, Franziska Walser.

literature

  • Barbara Mussack: Women's programs on the radio: A comparison between “Notebook” (BR) and “ Zeite ” (SFB). Diploma thesis, Munich 1984, 184 sheets.
  • Britta Bürger: Conception of a women-specific radio magazine using the example of the Sender Freies Berlin: Zeite. Master's thesis, Berlin 1986, 231 pages,
  • Margit Backhaus, Sigrid Kneist: Women's radio since 1945 in Germany. Master's thesis, Berlin 1986, 244 pages.
  • Hilke Schlaeger: RF like radiofeminista. Why we need a women's radio. In: Gitta Mühlen Achs (ed.): Iconoclasm. Women in the media. Women's offensive Munich, 1990
  • Margreth Lünenborg : Female Identity and Feminist Media Public. An oral history study with journalists in feminist media and editorial offices. University of Dortmund, 1991, 346 pages.
  • Margreth Lünenborg: A female view of the world. The women's political magazine Zeite bei SFB. In: Group Feminist Public (ed.): Femina publica. Women, the public, feminism. PapyRossa, Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-89438-044-6
  • Margreth Lünenborg: Women's media in Berlin. In: FrauenStadtBuch Berlin, Elefanten Press, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-88520-471-8 .
  • Beate Schneegass: World-changing and everyday things from a female perspective - “Zeite”, the SFB's women's political magazine. In: Angelika Oettinger & Beate Schneegass (eds.): Used, braked, promoted. Women and politics in Charlottenburg after 1945. Edition Hentrich, Berlin 1993, pp. 113–119. ISBN 978-3-89468-063-3 .
  • Anna Wegricht: Unheard of ?! Women and Feminism on Public Radio. Master's thesis at the Bauhaus University Weimar, 2015
  • Points in time. In: Yopic eV (Ed.): Strong women. What moved them in Charlottenburg and Wilmersdorf after 1945. Berlin 2017

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gunhild Schöller: Hot women's radio in cold times . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 30, 1989, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 9 ( taz.de [accessed November 15, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Gunhild Schöller: Entry into the “out” for the SFB women's radio . In: The daily newspaper: taz . September 11, 1986, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 5 ( taz.de ).
  3. ↑ a b c “Points in time” in danger . In: The daily newspaper: taz . August 26, 1994, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 14 ( taz.de [accessed November 15, 2019]).
  4. ↑ The TIMES are turning 30! rbb, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 2004: rbb women's magazine »Zeite« celebrated its birthday. Radio journal, accessed November 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b Prize winners of the Berlin Women's Prize. Berlin Senate Department, Women and Equality Department, August 5, 2019, accessed on November 15, 2019 .
  7. ^ Louise Schroeder Medal. Berlin House of Representatives, accessed on November 15, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Juliane Bartel Media Prize 2014. Nds. Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Equality, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Juliane Bartel Media Prize 2016. Nds. Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Equality, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ German Child and Youth Welfare Prize, 2016 award winners. Working group for child and youth welfare, accessed on January 6, 2020 .