
In the years 1920-24 the radio conquered the living rooms as the first purely auditory mass medium. How have radio formats and concepts changed since then, what parallels still exist a hundred years later?
The experts will discuss the historical development of radio, the first mass medium that has been in constant change since its inception. Radio did not – like print media – attempt to recount what happened, but to create »presence« in the sense of »simultaneity«, so that the impression of a present shared by transmitters and receivers was created and continues to be created today. The technical achievements at the turn of the century virtually overtook each other and in the 1920s the moving image, the silent film, moved into the center of public interest and challenged radio medially. By what means was »presence«, »movement« and »simultaneity« created in early radio, and how does radio today establish a connection to its listeners?
The Bauhaus experts also explain the »new discovery« of poetry on the radio. One of the points of departure, in addition to Weill's theory of absolute radio art, is the »word film« as well as early radio and public theories of Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin. Even at the beginning of radio there were various attempts to convey poetry. The possibilities of the new mass medium were assessed and theorized differently, and the many different perspectives continue to produce various radio formats and programs to this day.
With Jan Knopf, Carsten Probst und Teresa Retzer
- Organization / Institution
- ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Accompanying program
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- Wed, October 07, 20207 pm
- Intermediality II – Is there a beyond of the media?
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Talk
Online
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- Wed, September 30, 20207 pm
- Intermediality I
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, August 23, 20205.30 pm
- Reform der menschlichen Beziehungen
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Film Screening
Kinemathek Karlsruhe
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- Sun, August 23, 20203 pm
- Das Neue Bauen – Effizienzfieber
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Film Screening
Kinemathek Karlsruhe
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- Wed, July 29, 20206 pm
- The radio and the beginning of mass media & the »Absolute Radio Art«
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Talk
Online
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- Wed, July 22, 20206 pm
- Virtuelle Ausstellungstour: bauhaus.film.expanded
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Guided Tour
Online
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- Sun, May 17, 20206 pm
- Neues Sehen [New Vision]
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 17, 202011 am
- Online Workshop: Instant Movie Making
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Workshop
Online
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- Thu, May 14, 20206 pm
- The screening and preservation of historical (Bauhaus) films
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 10, 20206 pm
- Film music, silent and sound films
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Talk
Online
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- Fri, May 08, 20204 pm
- Cancelled – Transgressions - Church at the ZKM
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 2.OG
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- Thu, May 07, 20206 pm
- Abstract Films: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, May 03, 20206 pm
- Ella Bergmann-Michel
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Talk
Online
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- Thu, April 30, 20206 pm
- Architectural Films: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, April 26, 20206 pm
- Symphonie Diagonale Revisited
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Talk
Online
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- Fri, April 24, 20204 pm
- Online Workshop: Instant Movie Making
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Workshop
Online
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- Thu, April 23, 20206 pm
- Political and Experimental Film Essays: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Talk
Online
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- Sun, April 19, 20206 pm
- Ellen Auerbach. Bauhaus Artist from Karlsruhe I & II
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Talk
Online
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- Thu, April 16, 20207 pm
- Digital Opening: bauhaus.film.digitally.expanded
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Opening
Online
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- Fri, March 20, 20204 pm
- Online guided tour of »bauhaus.film.expanded«
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Guided Tour
Online
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- Sun, February 16, 20206 pm
- Dynamik der Großstadt – zum Ursprung der Großstadtsinfonien
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Film Screening
Vortragssaal
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- Sun, February 16, 20204 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Sat, February 15, 20206 pm
- Konkrete Geräusche und Musik der Maschinen
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Film Screening
Vortragssaal
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- Sat, February 15, 20204 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Sat, February 08, 20203 pm
- Guided tour with curators
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Guided Tour
Lichthof 1+2, 1.OG
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- Thu, February 06, 20206 pm
- medialounge at six
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Lecture
Vortragssaal
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- Sat, January 18, 20207.30 pm
- ARTE Film Night – 100 Years of Bauhaus
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Film Screening
Medientheater