Synopses & Reviews
In the defeat and occupation of Germany that followed the Second World War, the radio remained a vital part of everyday life for most Germans. Voices in Ruins explores in detail the continuities and discontinuities of everyday broadcasting practice at the occupied radio stations. It shows the multiple ways in which the radio stations, in interaction with their listeners, helped to fundamentally shape visions of what would become the Federal Republic, as well as memories of a German past.
Synopsis
Immediately after the Second World War, the radio was the best-preserved medium of mass communication in Germany. This book explores the implications of this dominance by asking how everyday broadcasting constructed ideas of 'normal' times, people and places in the destroyed, divided and occupied zones of what would become the Federal Republic.
Synopsis
This book explores the continuities and discontinuities of everyday broadcasting practice at German radio stations following the defeat and occupation of Germany that followed World War II.
About the Author
ALEXANDER BADENDOCH is Post-Doctoral Researcher at the Technical University of Eindhoven.
Table of Contents
Introduction * Keeping Time: the Temporal Structures of Everyday Broadcasting * Familiar Voices: Radio and the Reconstruction of Personality * Time Consuming: Women's Programmes and the Reproduction of the Home * Voices of the Heimat? Markers of Space and Representations of the Region * Conclusion: Voices in Ruins