All programs will be broadcast on Corax (RC, 95,9), UKW 87,5 (covering the vicinity of D21 Artspace) and/or Radio Blau (RB, 99,2), and here:
Schedule (12 November—22 Dezember) available here for download.
Archive available here.
On workers’ radios, pirates, and free radio broadcasters (yes, of course, Brecht and Benjamin play a part, too).
Friday, 20 November 2020
15:00—17:00 Radio Program (RC)
The history of emancipatory radio.
17:00—19:00 Radio Program (RC)
Ich möchte einmal am Sender stehen (I’d like to be the one at the transmitter, just one)
by and with Gerd Roscher
Film sounds & talk with Gerd Roscher, director of the documentary Ich möchte einmal am Sender stehen (I’d like to be the one at the transmitter, just one) about the workers’ radio movement of the 1920s.
18:00—19:00 Film Screening
Ich möchte einmal am Sender stehen (I’d like to be the one at the transmitter, just one) (1981)
by Gerd Roscher → at D21 Artspace
18:00—19:00 Radio Program (RB)
Auch Schön (Also Nice)—Lab Time
Saturday, 21 November 2020
15:00—17:00 Lecture Performance (RB)
Schwierigkeiten mit der Standortbestimmung (Difficult Position Fixing)
by Anna Bromley
It’s friday, seven o’clock in the evening. A student is looking for the frequency of the non-approved Radio Fledermaus which can be received only 15 minutes per day—“but how exciting those minutes are! An entirely different radio…”
A performance about the criminalization and persecution of the free radio Fledermaus.
16:00—17:00 Lecture Performance
Äthertäter im Realsozialismus (Perpetrators On Air in Real Socialism)
by Alex Körner
Pirate stations in the GDR?—“Next, a hit by the Beatles. It is (…) ‘Misery.’” Four teenagers play the music that is not being played on Rundfunk der DDR (GDR Broadcasting). They run the pirate station Sender Freies Paunsdorf (SFP) which will remain undetected for years…
17:00—19:99 Panel Discussion (RB)
Emancipatory Radio
with Anna Bromley, Alex Körner, Johannes Willms, and others
A discussion about calls on radio as a channel for agitprop, as a participatory and empowering medium and as a societal mass medium.
19:00—20:00 Radio Program (RB)
Auch Schön (Also Nice)—Lab Time
Extracts from the history of emancipatory radios.
Sunday, 22 November 2020
15:00—16:00 Radio Program (RB)
Eine kleine Prise Funkgeschichte (A Dash of Radio History)
with Rainer Suckow (Königswusterhausen e. V.)
The director of the radio association in Königswusterhausen talks about how a radio operates and about audible morse code, and tells anecdotes from 100 years of radio history.
16:00—19:00 Radio Program (RB)
Emanzipatorische Radiogeschichten (Emancipatory Radio Stories)
with HGB Leipzig students Jan-Luca Ott, Theresa Münnich, Paul Kother, and others
Actors of the independent radio art festival Common Waves in Tbilisi and Vinod Pavarella (UNESCO-chair Community-Radio in Hyderabad-India).
19:00—20:00 Radio Program
Auch Schön (Also Nice)—Lab Time