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Kulturkonzepte im Konflikt. Britische, deutsche und schweizerische Hörfunkprogramme während des Zweiten Weltkriegs
Abstract
While radio programs aired by the German speaking Swiss broadcasting service during the Second World War hardly differed from those before the war, those in Germany and Great Britain present a different picture. Because of wartime conditions, certain forms of entertainment, which before had been more or less rejected by those responsible for programs, began to be heard in both countries. These parallel developments show that it was not a need for propaganda, but a longterm international trend that was at work. It is a process which one could call the Americanization of european media which traditionally had been committed to education and culture.
Twentieth-century German history is indelibly marked by deep ruptures that have profoundly affected all aspects of society. The history of German radio is no exception. The political systems of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi dictatorship, and the East and West German states each established not only entirely different forms of broadcast organization, but also completely different ideas about radio programming. This chapter attempts to give an overview of the relevant types and how they changed over time. However, it limits itself to the period until about 1960, when television began to emerge as the dominant mass medium, thus presenting its own particular challenges to radio. In this sense the decades before 1960 comprise a discrete era, a Radio Age without competition from television.
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