Komponieren für das Radio: Akteure, Diskurse, Praktiken

s der Beiträge Nils Grosch: „‚Der Rundfunk als Distributionsapparat‘: Eine Notiz zu Musik und Neuen Medien in der Weimarer Republik“ Brecht’s demand to transform the radio from a distribution device into a communication device challenges us to question radio theories and the radiophone concepts of the Weimar Republic for their basic communicative assumptions. What are the medial and distributive ideas of art? What cultural-political and communication-theoretical scope and consequences did the broadcasting contract policy mean? What does the call for broadcasting as a new patron mean and how does it fit into the idea of a democratic culture of the post-revolutionary period? Mark Delaere: „Ein Hörspiel aus der Pionierzeit des belgischen öffentlichen Rundfunks N.I.R.: August L. Baeyens’ La Sonate d’Amour (1934)“ This article offers an insight into the structure, organization and mission of the music department and its radio orchestras of the Belgian public broadcast N.I.R. at the time of its establishment in 1930. This overview forms the historic background for the ‘radiophonic novel’ La Sonate d’Amour (1934) based on a text by Roger Avermaete and with music by August L. Baeyens, the analysis of which being the principal aim of this article. The melodramatic plot