Electrified Voices

Electrified Voices: Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice Transfer
“Sounds like the Sixties: Approaches to Analyze Radio Aesthetic in the Past” was the title of a contribution to the conference “Electrified Voices: Medial, Socio-Historical and Cultural Aspects of Voice-Transfer” from 16 to 18 June 2011 in Konstanz. The conference sought to explore the phenomenon of the electrified voice with interdisciplinary access from media-technological, socio-historical and culture-comparing perspectives. It focussed on three problem fields, which contain social reflection on tasks of electric voice transmission, the mediation of gender- and career-specific voice stereotypes in audio and audio-visual formats and the emergence of these voice stereotypes in national broadcasting and movie cultures. More information on the programme. Concept and organisation: PD Dr. Dmitri Zakharine, Universität Konstanz.


Solution rather than Coping

Audio cd on Axel Eggebrecht's reporting of the first Auschwitz trial released

On 14 July 2011 an audio cd was released with original audio recordings from both series, with which Axel Eggebrecht reported of the first Auschwitz trial from 1963-1965 in Frankfurt/Main for the NDR. The cd derives from a cooperation of the research project with the Stiftung Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv [foundation German broadcasting archive] and is titled “Aufklärung statt Bewältigung” [Solution rather than Coping]. The cd contains excerpts at a total length of over 68 minutes. In a comprehensive booklet Florian Bayer and Hans-Ulrich Wagner present the particular significance of this audio material. The essay comes with many images and beyond this provides information on the historical background. more (PDF, German)


"The History of Northwestern German Broadcasting Station" Vol. 2

Die Geschichte des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks. Band 2Ed. by Hans-Ulrich Wagner

Wagner, H.-U. (ed) (2008): Die Geschichte des Nordwestdeutschen Rundfunks [The History of Northwestern German Broadcasting Station]. Vol. 2. Hamburg: Hoffmann und Campe, 2008. 400 pages, Paperback, with Photographs and Illustrations, EUR 40,– [D] / EUR 41,20 [A] / sFr. 69,90 [CH]