Frederike Moormann
One to Many
Aktueller Standort: 51° 20‘ 22.904“ N 12° 22‘ 23.069
Original Broadcast 18. December 2020Repreat Broadcast 8. November 2023
Deutschlandfunk Kultur Klangkunst
Three years before radio officially launched in Germany, the first test broadcast was aired in Königs Wusterhausen in 1920. A hundred years later, four radio enthusiasts recreate this moment.
On 22 December 1920, the main radio station of the German Post Office broadcast a Christmas concert using an arc transmitter. Radio was born. Broadcasting from one point to ‘everyone’ (‘one-to-many’) was an important step in the development of media: after the ‘one-to-one’ of the telephone and before today's ‘many-to-many’ of the internet.
The first German broadcast, which was not recorded for technical reasons, was probably not heard by anyone in the country. Listening to the radio was prohibited under penalty of law.
Following the dramaturgy of the first German test broadcast, three radio enthusiasts imagine and interconnect the perspectives of broadcasters and listeners. In doing so, they tell of communities before and within the apparatus.
Link to Radiopiece at Deutschlandfunk Kultur
By - Frederike Moormann, Angelika Waniek, Dieter Daniels
Direction – Frederike Moormann, Angelika Waniek
Voices - Meriam bbas, Tonio Arango, Sabine Falkenberg
Interview - Karin Althaus, Anna Bromley, Dieter Daniels, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Nathalie Singer, Rainer Suckow
Choir - Henriette Aichinger, Joé Bertili, Ulrike Feibig, Enrico Hiersemann-Petters, Anna Keil, Gwen Kyrg, Florian Steffens
Co-Composition & Recording – Paul Hauptmeier, Martin Recker
Word recordings – Sonja Rebel
Mixing – Max Schneider
Production - Marcus Gammel/ Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Kunstraum D21