59-521: European Journal was a weekly, 30-minute Deutsche Welle (DW) news programme produced in English from 1992–2014. It was broadcast from Brussels, Belgium and primarily covered political and economic developments across the European Union and the rest of Europe , as well as issues of particular concern to Germany . In North America , European Journal had previously been available on
118-413: A two-tier approach that they are using for the future growth of their company which consists of a global approach and a regional approach. Within their global approach, DW has now made plans to boost its competitiveness market throughout the world with news and television coverage. The plan implements covering almost all regions of the world with two television channels in each region. With some exclusions,
177-557: A German International broadcasting station was supported by CDU chancellor Konrad Adenauer . To prevent governmental indoctrination in Germany, broadcasting is a matter of the federal states. In a years-long dispute between the Adenauer and the federal states of Germany , the federal government was allowed to create Deutschlandfunk aiming GDR citizens and Deutsche Welle for an international audience. In 1959, Adenauer presented
236-399: A bill to establish three federal broadcasting companies: Deutschlandfunk , Deutsche Welle and Deutschland-Fernsehen (Germany-TV) . The Federal Constitutional Court stopped Adenauer's television plans. Radio, on the other hand, was permitted as a federal institution. In 1960, Deutsche Welle became an independent public body after a court ruled that while broadcasting to Germany was
295-612: A close friend of Elly. After his studies Heuss worked as a political journalist in Berlin and from 1905 until 1912 presided over the magazine Die Hilfe ("The Aid") published by Friedrich Naumann . From 1912 to 1918, he was editor in chief of the Neckarzeitung ( Neckar Newspaper) in Heilbronn. In Berlin, he worked as editor for the weekly newsletter Deutsche Politik ("German Politics"). With Naumann, Heuss in 1903 joined
354-494: A day on weekdays. DW News broadcasts from Berlin but frequently has live social media segments hosted from a specially designed studio in Bonn. The German, Spanish, and Arabic channels also received a new design. At the same time, DW's news website moved from a .de URL to .com and added a social media stream to its front page. The refreshed DW services were launched under the tagline 'Made for Minds'. Deutsche Welle has developed
413-425: A major reform. The main changes have been a radical reduction of shortwave radio broadcasting—from a daily total of 260 to 55 hours—and an expansion of television broadcasting. In 2013, DW leased time on the following relay stations: DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle 's international center for media development , media consulting and journalism training. It offers training and consulting services to partners around
472-491: A new news studio and a new logo. Deutsche Welle took some of the former independent radio broadcasting service Deutschlandfunk 's foreign-language programming in 1993, when Deutschlandfunk was absorbed into the new Deutschlandradio . In addition to radio and television programming, DW sponsored some published material. For example, the South-Asia Department published German Heritage: A Series Written for
531-476: A result of German reunification, Deutsche Welle has been the only remaining broadcasting corporation under federal law. In contrast to the national public broadcasters, which are financed by the license fee the ARD state broadcasters, Deutschlandradio and ZDF, it is not financed through the broadcasting fee, but from federal taxes. The Ministry for Culture and Media is responsible for the financing, which in turn allows
590-654: A similar name was Deutsche Welle GmbH , founded in August 1924 by German diplomat and radio pioneer Ernst Ludwig Voss in Berlin and broadcast regularly from January 7, 1926. The station was initially owned by 70% by Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft and 30% by the Free State of Prussia . From 1931 onwards, Deutsche Welle broadcast from the Berlin Broadcasting House . On January 1, 1933, Deutsche Welle GmbH
649-700: A state matter, broadcasting from Germany was part of the federal government's foreign affairs function. On 7 June 1962, DW joined ARD as a national broadcasting station. Deutsche Welle was originally headquartered in the West German city of Cologne . After reunification , when much of the government relocated to Berlin, the station's headquarters moved to Bonn. With the German reunification in 1990, Radio Berlin International (RBI), East Germany 's international broadcaster ceased to exist. Some of
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#1732766109106708-809: A tri-media organization, making the Deutsche Welle website an equal partner with DW-TV and DW Radio. The website is available in 30 languages but focuses on German, English, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Arabic. Persian became the eighth focus language in 2007. In March 2009, DW-TV expanded its television services in Asia with two new channels, namely DW-TV Asia and DW-TV Asia+. DW-TV Asia (DW-TV Asien in German) contains 16 hours of German programming and 8 hours in English, whilst DW-TV Asia+ contains 18 hours of English programmes plus 6 hours of German programmes. In August 2009, DW-TV's carriage in
767-548: Is a German public , state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in German , English , Spanish , Tamil , Hindi , Persian , and Arabic . The work of DW is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, stating that content is intended to be independent of government influence . DW
826-672: Is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own centre for international media development, DW Akademie. The broadcaster's stated goals are to produce reliable news coverage, provide access to the German language, and promote understanding between peoples. It is also a provider of live streaming world news which can be, like all DW programs, viewed and listened via its website, YouTube, Satellite, Re-broadcasting and various Apps and digital media players . DW has been broadcasting since 1953. It
885-528: Is headquartered in Bonn , where its radio programmes are produced. However, television broadcasts are produced almost entirely in Berlin . Both locations create content for DW's news website. As of 2020, Deutsche Welle had 1,668 employees (annual average). In total, over 4,000 distinct people of over 140 nationalities work in DW's offices in Bonn and Berlin, as well as at other locations worldwide. A predecessor with
944-598: The Reichskonkordat the Centre Party MPs would assent, ultimately subordinated to party discipline. Alternative views of Hermann Dietrich , Weimar Republic finance minister claim that he was part of the majority in favor of voting for the enabling law. When Germany became a one-party state , the DStP was dissolved on 28 June 1933 and Heuss was divested of his Reichstag mandate by decree of Minister of
1003-415: The Deutsche Welle for 2016 was 301.8 million euros. On 25 February 2018, DW-TV published "The Climate Cover Up – Big Oil's Campaign of Deception" (2018) after documents confirmed big oil companies have known the burning of fossil fuels impacts climate since 1957. Deutsche Welle is funded from federal grants taken from the federal tax revenue. Since the reorganisation of broadcasting as
1062-997: The Teutonic Cemetery to the Church of Santa Maria della Pietà in Camposanto dei Teutonici , the National Church in Rome of Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands. Heuss was a member of the Protestant Church in Germany . Since 1964, the Theodor Heuss Prize has been awarded for exemplary democratic disposition. Heuss's former residence is now open to the public as the Theodor-Heuss-Haus . His image appeared on one series of
1121-665: The US Office of Military Government on 24 September 1945 appointed Heuss the first Minister of Education and Cultural Affairs in the German state of Württemberg-Baden under his fellow party member Minister-president Reinhold Maier , in favour of whom he resigned in 1946. As a co-founder of the Democratic People's Party ( Demokratische Volkspartei , DVP), the predecessor of the German Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei , FDP) in
1180-480: The Bundesrat on the same date. By the time he was confirmed as the first democratic German president since Paul von Hindenburg , he refused to be called " Excellency ", preferring instead to be called simply "Herr Heuss", Herr Bundespräsident is the German term of address up to today. Heuss's plans for a new national anthem were aborted by Adenauer, who – in rare accordance with Kurt Schumacher – had
1239-496: The DW to offer a broadcast with low to nonexistent advertising time. On 10 April 2019, DW announced that Venezuela 's state telecoms regulator Conatel had halted its Spanish-language channel. By 15 April, the broadcasting service was restored. In 2019, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused DW of calling on Russians to take part in recent anti-government protests and threatened it would take action against
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#17327661091061298-727: The Federal Republic of Germany . After being elected to the first German Bundestag , he relinquished his parliamentary mandate on 12 September 1949, when he was elected President by the Federal Convention ( Bundesversammlung ) defeating the Social Democrat leader Kurt Schumacher in the second ballot. He took the oath required by article 56 of the Basic Law before a joint session of the Bundestag and
1357-801: The Germans to never forget the Holocaust and precisely described the crimes against the Jews but he refrained from citing those who were responsible for their suffering. On 12 December 1963 Heuss died in Stuttgart , aged 79. In 1957 Heuss donated a sculpted portal entry to the Camposanto of the Teutons and the Flemish in Vatican city. The portal, by sculptor Elmar Hillebrand of Cologne, gives access from
1416-616: The Interior Wilhelm Frick with effect from 8 July. Following the end of his term he returned to private life. During the Nazi era , he stayed in contact with a network of liberals, leading to contacts with the German resistance towards the end of the war, though he was not an active resister. In 1936 Heuss faced a publication ban, nevertheless in 1941 he became an employee of the Frankfurter Zeitung , one of
1475-830: The Latvian capital, Riga . In March 2022, a Belarusian court recognized the Telegram channel “DW Belarus” and the Deutsche Welle logo as extremist materials. In April 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus labeled DW Belarus as an extremist group. On 30 June 2022, DW was banned in Turkey upon the request of Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK). RTÜK ordered DW in February 2022 to pay
1534-678: The RBI staff joined Deutsche Welle and DW inherited some broadcasting facilities, including transmitting facilities at Nauen , as well as RBI's frequencies. DW (TV) began as RIAS-TV , a television station launched by the West Berlin broadcaster RIAS (Radio in the American Sector / Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor ) in August 1988; they also acquired the German Educational Television Network in
1593-662: The South Asia Programme in 1967, and in 1984 published African Writers on the Air . Both publications were transcripts of DW programming. In September 1994, Deutsche Welle was the first public broadcaster in Germany with an internet presence, initially www-dw.gmd.de, hosted by the GMD Information Technology Research Center. For its first two years, the site listed little more than contact addresses, although DW's News Journal
1652-644: The Tor network in order to circumvent censorship measures by non-democratic states. Deutsche Welle was heavily involved in technological resarch initiatives in order to adapt shortwave transmission to today's standards through the use of digital technology. DW favored the technology of the Digital Radio Mondiale consortium. In 2008 she started the BBC & DW project with the British BBC. However, this
1711-653: The United Kingdom on Sky channel 794 ceased, although the channel continues to be available via other European satellites receivable in the UK. In 2011, DW announced a significant reduction of service including the closure of most of its FM services in the Balkans (except for Romani ), but that it would expand its network of FM partners in Africa. The radio production for Hausa, Kiswahili, French, and Portuguese for Africa
1770-688: The United States. The fall of the Berlin Wall the following year and German reunification in 1990 meant that RIAS-TV was to be closed down. On 1 April 1992, Deutsche Welle inherited the RIAS-TV broadcast facilities, using them to start a German- and English-language television channel broadcast via satellite , DW (TV), adding a short Spanish broadcast segment the following year. In 1995, it began 24-hour operation (12 hours German, 10 hours English, 2 hours Spanish). At that time, DW (TV) introduced
1829-424: The address in 2000, without success. DW eventually moved to the www.dw.com domain on 22 June 2015. According to DW, their website delivers information by topic with an intuitive navigation organized to meet users' expectations. The layout offers more flexibility to feature pictures, videos, and in-depth reporting on the day's events in a multimedia and multilingual fashion. They also integrated their Media Center into
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1888-401: The democratic-liberal and cultural traditions of Germany, he was a symbol of confidence in the German post-war republic in the international community. His further state visits to Turkey, Italy, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom contributed greatly to the increase of appreciation toward the still young Federal Republic of Germany. He was opposed to re-armament and the founding of
1947-429: The dw.de website making it easier for users to access videos, audio, and picture galleries from DW's multimedia archive of reports, programs, and coverage of special issues. DW's news site is in seven core languages ( Arabic , Chinese , English, German, Spanish, Portuguese for Brazil , and Russian), as well as a mixture of news and information in 23 other languages in which Deutsche Welle broadcasts. Persian became
2006-513: The entire world will be covered. Hours covered range throughout regions and the coverage will be in German, English, Spanish, and Arabic. The regional approach looks at marketing over the Internet to offer news coverage in languages other than the 4 being offered. With updates on DW's website news will be better tailored to each region. Over time, they plan to diversify their online coverage with more regional content being covered. The budget of
2065-463: The few remaining liberal newspapers at that time. Heuss wrote under pseudonyms until publishing of the paper was finally prohibited in 1943. He spent the following years writing a biography of Robert Bosch . Heuss was a contributor to the Nazi newspaper Das Reich , launched by Joseph Goebbels as a more intellectual version of the crude antisemitism spread by Nazi publications. After World War II
2124-610: The liberal Free-minded Union , which in 1910 merged into the Progressive People's Party ( Fortschrittliche Volkspartei ), in which he was engaged until its dissolution in 1918. After World War I , Heuss between 1923 and 1926 published the magazine Die Deutsche Nation ("The German Nation"). He had become a member of the German Democratic Party ( Deutsche Demokratische Partei , DDP), from 1930 renamed German State Party ( Deutsche Staatspartei , DStP),
2183-535: The license fee or to terminate their service in Turkey. In October 2022, Iran sanctioned DW Farsi for coverage of 2022 Iranian protests . Iran's Foreign Ministry announced the sanctions in a statement, accusing those listed of "supporting terrorism." * partly by Deutschlandfunk (until 1993) The main distribution of DW programs is by Satellite transmissions, Internet Stream and re-broadcasting by local FM-radio stations. Historically shortwave broadcastswere
2242-450: The main distribution chanel of international broadcsters. so Deutsche Welle. For parts of Africa, where DW believes many people can still be reached via radio, DW broadcasts programs via shortwave. The TV program is distributed via various satellite channels and fed into cable networks. It is also available as a live stream on the DW website and in the ARD media library. Since 2019, DW has been providing its websites as an onion service via
2301-453: The new West German Army in 1955, but had no power to stop it. His ironic speech at the swearing in of the first new soldiers, "Nun siegt mal schön!" ("Happy war-winning!"), is well remembered. In 1959, Heuss was awarded the prestigious Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels . In addressing the memory of Nazism and the Nazi dictatorship, Heuss introduced the concept of collective shame as opposed to collective guilt . His rhetoric encouraged
2360-651: The newly founded Free Democratic Party. He advocated uniting all liberal parties in the Western occupation zones, overcoming the split between right liberals and left liberals that had existed in the Weimar Republic . In 1948, he was a member of the Parlamentarischer Rat (Parliamentary Council) at Bonn with considerable influence in the drafting of West Germany's constitution, the Basic Law for
2419-481: The now-defunct Newsworld International network. It also aired in New York City on CUNY TV and on some PBS stations. This German television programme–related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Deutsche Welle Deutsche Welle ( pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə] ; "German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW ( pronounced [deːˈveː] ),
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2478-453: The outlet under domestic law if it made such calls again. Shortly after, Russia's parliament accused DW of breaking election legislation and asked the foreign ministry to consider revoking the German broadcaster's right to work in the country. By November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared he did not support banning foreign media outlets. On 3 February 2022, in retaliation to Germany's broadcasting regulator's decision to ban
2537-640: The political heir of the Fortschrittliche Volkspartei in 1918 and was a member of the Reichstag parliament from 1924 to 1928 and again from 1930 to 1933. On 23 March 1933, along with his four fellow DStP parliamentarians, Heuss voted in favour of the Enabling Act (Ermächtigungsgesetz), granting Chancellor Adolf Hitler quasi-dictatorial powers. He had set out to abstain, but after Heinrich Brüning indicated that with regard to
2596-509: The site's eighth focus language in 2007. German and European news is DW's central focus, but the site also offers background information about German and German language courses. Deutsch, Warum Nicht? (literally: German, Why Not? ) is a personal course for learning the German language, created by Deutsche Welle and the Goethe-Institut . In 2003, the German government passed a new " Deutsche Welle Act", which defined DW as
2655-636: The southwestern German states, he was a member of the Württemberg-Baden state parliament ( Landtag ) from 1946 to 1949. Heuss also taught history at the Stuttgart Institute of Technology in 1946 and 1947, receiving the title of an honorary professor in 1948. After plans elaborated with Wilhelm Külz to build up an all-German liberal party had failed, Heuss in December 1948 was elected head of West German and Berlin sections of
2714-411: The then-West German President, Theodor Heuss . On 11 June 1953, ARD public broadcasters signed an agreement to share responsibility for Deutsche Welle . At first, it was controlled by Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). In 1955, NWDR split into Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), WDR assumed responsibility for Deutsche Welle programming. Politically the creation of
2773-480: The third stanza of the old Deutschlandlied established in 1952. A widower since 1952, Heuss was re-elected in 1954 with practically no opposition, after the Social Democrats had renounced the nomination of a rival candidate. Not until May 1956, could he make his first state visit, invited by King Paul of Greece . The president, accompanied by Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano , was overwhelmed by
2832-517: The transmission of the Russian state-run RT Deutsch channel over a lack of a broadcasting license, the Russian foreign ministry said that it would shut down DW's Moscow bureau, strip all DW staff of their accreditation and terminate broadcasting of DW in Russia. It also stated that it would begin the procedure of designating DW as a " foreign agent ". The Moscow office of Deutsche Welle was informed that it would be shut at 9:00 on Friday, 4 February 2022. DW made plans to relocate Moscow operations to
2891-418: The universities of Munich and Berlin . He received his doctorate at Munich, with Lujo Brentano serving as his thesis adviser, in 1905. Heuss was also a student of Friedrich Naumann , a German politician and theologian. On 11 April 1908, he married Elly Heuss-Knapp (1881–1952), with whom he had a son. The minister presiding over the Lutheran wedding ceremony held in Straßburg was Albert Schweitzer ,
2950-410: The warm reception in Athens , considering that the country had heavily suffered under German occupation in World War II. He held office until the end of his term on 12 September 1959, succeeded by Heinrich Lübke . He had declined a third term in office, as this would have necessitated changing the constitution. Heuss shaped the office of president by his non-partisan governing. As a representative of
3009-483: The world. It works with broadcasters, media organizations, and universities especially in developing and transitioning countries to promote free and independent media. The work is funded mainly by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development . Additional sponsors are the German Foreign Office and the European Union . Theodor Heuss Theodor Heuss ( German: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈhɔʏs] ; 31 January 1884 – 12 December 1963)
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#17327661091063068-409: Was a German liberal politician who served as the first president of West Germany from 1949 to 1959. His cordial nature – something of a contrast to the stern character of chancellor Konrad Adenauer – largely contributed to the stabilization of democracy in West Germany during the Wirtschaftswunder years. Before beginning his career as a politician, Heuss had been a political journalist. Heuss
3127-442: Was born in Brackenheim , a small town and wine-making community near Heilbronn in Württemberg , on the border between the historic regions of Swabia and Franconia . He attended the Karlsgymnasium in Heilbronn, from which he graduated in 1902. This selective secondary school has since been renamed the Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium , in honor of its famous alumnus. Heuss studied economics , art history and political science at
3186-492: Was broadcast in RealAudio from Real's server beginning in 1995, and Süddeutsche Zeitung ' s initial web presence, which included news articles from the newspaper, shared the site. In 1996, it evolved into a news website using the URL dwelle.de ; in 2001, the URL changed to www.dw-world.de, and was changed again in 2012, to www.dw.de . Deutsche Welle purchased the domain dw.com , which previously belonged to DiamondWare , in 2013; DW had attempted to claim ownership of
3245-523: Was inaugurated on 29 July 1974 in exchange for a grant of almost 1 million GBP. The station closed in January 1996. Formerly, DW shared a transmitting station on Antigua in the Caribbean with the BBC. It was inaugurated on 1 November 1976 and closed on 31 March 2005. It had a relay-exchange with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that allowed DW to use two 250 kW transmitters in Sackville, New Brunswick until that facility closed down in 2012. In July 2011 Deutsche Welle began implementing
3304-407: Was officially transferred to Deutschlandsender GmbH . The station sees itself in the tradition of the first German foreign broadcaster, the Weltrundfunksender (world broadcaster) of the Weimar Republic . The Weltrundfunksender was renamed to deutscher Kurzwellensender (German Shortwave Broadcaster) by the Nazis in 1933. DW's first shortwave broadcast took place on 3 May 1953 with an address by
3363-545: Was optimized for FM broadcasts. DW also produces a regional radio magazine in English daily, which is to be rebroadcast by African partners. Audio content in Arabic is distributed online, via mobile, or rebroadcast by partners. DW announced it would focus on FM partnerships for Bengali, Urdu, Dari/Pashtu, and Indonesian for South Asia, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. On 1 November 2011, DW discontinued shortwave broadcasts in German, Russian, Persian, and Indonesian and ended its English service outside Africa. Chinese programming
3422-581: Was reduced from 120 minutes to 60 minutes a week. As of November 2011, DW only broadcast radio programming via shortwave in Amharic, Chinese, Dari, English, and French for Africa, Hausa, Kiswahili, Pashtu, Portuguese for Africa and Urdu. On 22 June 2015, DW TV launched a 24-hour English-language news channel with a new design and a new studio as part of a rebrand to DW News . Previously, DW's news programmes were called Journal and broadcast in English in 3-, 15- and 30-minute blocks. The new channel offers 30-minute updates every hour and 60-minute programmes twice
3481-401: Was soon discontinued due to a lack of success on the listener side. In the so called "Golden area" of shortwave radio at the time of the cold war , DW had a number of shortwave relay stations in South-East Asia, Africa and Europe. DW used a relay station in Malta that had three SW and one 600 kW-MW transmitter and gave partial coverage of the Americas, Southern Asia and the Far East. It
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