"Stimme der Wahrheit" : : german-language broadcasting by the BBC / / Edited by Charmian Brinson and Richard Dove.

• Superior document: The yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, 5
• TeilnehmendeR: Dove, Richard, 1938-; Brinson, Charmian,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi,, [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English; German
• Series: Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies 5.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 250 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Papers presented at a conference held by the Centre for German and Austian Exile Studies at the Institute of Germanic Studies, London in September 2002.

The essays contained in this volume were originally delivered as papers to a conference on the German-language broadcasting of the BBC, held in London in 2002. For over sixty years, the BBC German Service was Britain's most authoritative voice to the German-speaking world, representing a virtual paradigm of British cultural and political attitudes towards Germany and Austria - and helping to define their perceptions of Britain and the British. Despite the BBC's enormous cultural standing and influence, however, this volume is the first to evaluate the Corporation's German-language broadcasting since the BBC German Service was closed down in 1999. The essays fall into three broad categories: German-language broadcasting during the Second World War, broadcasting to Germany and Austria during the Cold War, and finally a series of personal accounts from former employees of the Service. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of broadcasting (including media studies) as well as those involved in German Studies and in German and Austrian Exile Studies.

Table of Contents

‘Patrick Smith bei den Österreichern’: the BBC Austrian Service in Wartime / Charmian Brinson -- Hermynia Zur Mühlen and the BBC / Deborah Vietor-Engländer -- Grete Fischer: ‘Outside Writer’ for the BBC / Jennifer Taylor -- ‘It tickles my Viennese humour’: Feature Programmes in the BBC Austrian Service, 1943-1945 / Richard Dove -- ‘Liberating German Musical Life’: The BBC German Service and Planning for Music Control in Occupied Germany 1944-1949 / Toby Thacker -- Die BBC als Vorbild für den Nachkriegsrundfunk in Deutschland / Jens Brüning -- ‘Ein Urviech und eine Seele von Mensch’: Erich Fried at the BBC / Steven Lawrie -- Über alle Hindernisse hinweg: London-Remigranten in der westdeutschen Rundfunkgeschichte / Hans-Ulrich Wagner -- Burned Bridges. The Rise and Fall of the Former BBC Journalist Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler in East Germany / Kristin Rebien -- My Years at Bush House, 1940-1945 / Lorle Louis-Hoffmann -- Changing the Guard: The Transition from Emigrés to Recruits on the Staff of the BBC’s German Service / Alfred Starkmann -- Der bewunderte Rivale oder der Londoner Rundfunk als heimliches Vorbild / Wladimir Ostrogorski -- Working as the BBC’s German Service Representative and News Correspondent in West Berlin, 1965-1970 / Peter B. Johnson.