Radio DDR 1 (English: Radio GDR 1 ) was a radio channel produced and transmitted by Rundfunk der DDR , the radio broadcasting organization of East Germany (GDR). It had a mixed of news and light entertainment schedule, with an emphasis on events in the GDR, and also included regional programming.
17-498: The origins of Radio DDR 1 can be traced back to August 1953. As part of a reorganization of the broadcasting system, in 1952, existing stations Deutschlandsender (part of Rundfunk der DDR since 1949), Berliner Rundfunk (founded in 1946), and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk were placed under the state broadcasting committee. Between June 1954 and September 1955, it was known as Berlin zweites Programm (Berlin 2nd Programme) in distinction from Berlin erstes Programm (Berlin 1st Programme),
34-597: A legal basis. Temporarily affiliated with the national ARD and ZDF public-service broadcasters, it was merged with the former West Berlin RIAS station to form Deutschlandradio Kultur with effect from 1 January 1994. With the Federal Republic's all-Germany service, Deutschlandfunk at Cologne , it today forms the Deutschlandradio broadcasting organisation, providing two nationwide radio stations for
51-777: The Deutsche Welle GmbH , a commercial company – unconnected to today's similarly named international broadcaster – which had been set up by the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (RRG) network for nationally relaying programmes from Germany's nine regional broadcasting stations. Broadcasting on long wave (182 kHz) from what was then a central position in the German Reich , the Deutschlandsender I transmitter enabled programmes from these stations to be heard throughout
68-486: The Red Army in 1945. During World War II the name Deutschlandsender was used to denote the long-wave service which covered most of Germany (and indeed Europe) while the regional medium-wave stations were normally identified as Reichssender [...] with the name of the city at or near which they were based. In the immediate post-war period, in 1947, a new long-wave radio transmitter, known as Deutschlandsender IV ,
85-544: The "Voice of the GDR" changed its name to Deutschlandsender . In May of the same year, it was combined with the existing national Radio DDR 2 to form Deutschlandsender Kultur , with headquarters at Funkhaus Nalepastraße. Broadcasting started on 16 June 1990. As set out in the German Reunification Treaty of October 3, East German radio stations were to be closed, DS Kultur's operations therefore lacked
102-644: The Deutschlandsender was relaunched as an "all-German" service, with FM coverage added. A further reorganisation occurred when, in 1971, the State Broadcasting Committee of the GDR decided to merge the main station aimed at both sides of Berlin, Berliner Welle , with the Deutschlandsender to create Stimme der DDR ("Voice of the GDR"). This new information and news service began in November 1972. This program of Rundfunk der DDR
119-753: The GDR government began a programme of centralisation, which included concentrating all broadcasting in East Berlin , and built a new studio centre in the Oberschöneweide district, known as the Funkhaus Nalepastraße . In September 1952, the short-wave Deutschlandsender service was renamed "Berlin I" and given a political programming emphasis. The long-wave Deutschlandsender service became "Berlin II", with an emphasis on culture and society. Both changes were, however, soon abandoned. In August 1953,
136-727: The country and its name was adopted as a station identification. The first programme broadcast was a concert from the RRG Berlin regional station, the Funk-Stunde AG. With effect from 1 January 1933, the Deutsche Welle company was renamed Deutschlandsender GmbH . Within a few weeks of this date the Nazi Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was to take over direct control of all broadcasting in Germany in
153-705: The course of the Gleichschaltung process. A second transmitter, Deutschlandsender II , broadcasting from nearby Zeesen , had been opened on 20 December 1927. First the tarnsmitter broadcast with 60 kW, and later 100 kW. Also in Brandenburg, Deutschlandsender III , then with a height of 337 m (1,106 ft) the world's second largest structure after the Empire State Building , started its transmissions on 19 May 1939 from Herzberg . These transmitters were destroyed and dismantled by
170-614: The mast is still there. From 1815 to 1944, Herzberg was part of the Prussian Province of Saxony . From 1944 to 1945, it was part of the Province of Halle-Merseburg . From 1952 to 1990, it was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany . Herzberg (Elster) is twinned with the following cities: [REDACTED] Media related to Herzberg (Elster) at Wikimedia Commons This Brandenburg location article
187-413: The new name for Berliner Rundfunk. It officially became known as "Radio DDR" on 11 September 1955. The channel, which was transmitted on medium wave (531, 558, 576, 603, 729, 882, and 1044 kHz ) and FM , broadcast until 1990. In April of that year it was renamed "Radio aktuell" and carried advertising for the first time. Following German reunification , Radio aktuell's frequencies were transferred to
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#1732787721753204-533: The new public-service broadcasting organizations Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (covering Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt , and Thuringia ) and Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg , and to the Hamburg -based Norddeutscher Rundfunk which took over as public-service broadcaster in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern . The weekly Schlagerrevue , which ran for 36 years and was presented from 1958 by Heinz Quermann, became
221-625: The reunified Germany. Herzberg (Elster) Herzberg (Elster) ( German pronunciation: [ˈhɛʁt͡sˌbɛʁk] ) is a town in the Elbe-Elster district of the German federal state of Brandenburg . From 1939 to 1945 it was home to the Deutschlandsender Herzberg/Elster , a huge longwave transmitter, whose mast was the second tallest construction in the world, at Herzberg/Elster. The basement of
238-466: The world's longest-running radio hit parade. The programme's editor from 1963 to 1988 was the composer, lyricist, arranger, singer, and bandleader Siegfried Jordan. Radio DDR 1's Sports Department employed such well known journalists as Heinz-Florian Oertel, Hubert Knobloch, Wolfgang Hempel, and Waldefried Forkefeld. Deutschlandsender Deutschlandsender ( German: [ˈdɔʏtʃlantˌzɛndɐ] , Radio Germany ), abbreviated DLS or DS ,
255-585: Was erected at Königs Wusterhausen. From 1 May 1949, the IV was dropped and the station became known as simply the Deutschlandsender programme of what was to become the Rundfunk der DDR broadcaster. The transmissions from the newly established German Democratic Republic (GDR) aimed at listeners in West Germany . The long-wave frequency used was 185 kHz and the station also broadcast via short wave. In 1952
272-647: Was intended for German-speaking listeners outside the borders of the GDR - primarily for assembly workers and the GDR's seafarers , but also as a propaganda medium in "capitalist foreign countries". It had a high word content and offered political information, entertainment and culture. In 1989 the Peaceful Revolution in East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall took place. In February 1990,
289-515: Was one of the longest-established radio broadcasting stations in Germany . The name was used between 1926 and 1993 to denote a number of powerful stations designed to achieve a nationwide coverage. Deutschlandsender I at first was the name of a powerful transmitter situated at Königs Wusterhausen in Brandenburg near Berlin , put into operation on 7 January 1926. The station was run by
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