Literarische und mediale Aspekte im Hörspiel der Weimarer Republik
Literary and medial aspects in the radio plays of the Weimar Republic

Summary/Abstract: In the Weimar Republic an art of listening emerges, which can be determined on the one hand by the possibilities of literary forms of expression, on the other hand by its experiments with the new medium of broadcasting. Initially conceived as a live performance, the early radio plays are characterized by an ambivalence of their acoustic medium, which addresses of necessity only one intensively used sensory organ. Using the example of Hans Flesch’s ''Die Zauberei auf dem Sender'' (1924), Ernst Johannsen’s ''Brigadevermittlung'' (1929) and Eduard Reinacher’s ''Der Narr mit der Hacke'' (1930), the question should be asked of the importance of the radio drama in the media context of the Weimar Republic. What competitive and interference relationships do these early radio plays have with contemporary literature and the possibilities of its medium? Early drafts of a theory of radiophonic hearing must also be considered. How is the genre conceptualized in theoretical drafts of the time and what possibilities and limits are acknowledged in the radio magazines? Approaches to the development of a theory of the radio play usually go beyond the political and ideological camps. From this perspective, it is also important to consider the fatal misappropriation of radio as a central means of propaganda in the Nazi era. In addition, the influence of early radio play concepts on post-war poetic radio play will also be investigated.

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