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Stimme der Wahrheit. The German-Language Broadcasting of the BBC World Service

9:00am, 25 September 2002

London, 25-27 September 2002

Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Institute of Germanic Studies (University of London)
German Historical Institute
Leo Baeck Institute London

Programme

Wednesday, 25 September

Professor Rüdiger Görner (IGS)
Professor J. M. Ritchie (Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies
Introduction

Deborah Vietor-Engländer (Darmstadt)
Hermynia zur Mühlen and the BBC

Ruth Longdin (New South Wales)
Ilse Barea, Mararet Rink and the BBC

Alfred Starkmann (St. Augustin)
The Transition from Emigrés to Recruits from Germany and Austria on the Staff of the BBC's German Service

Thursday, 26 September

Wolfgang Schopf (Frankfurt a. M.)
" … ich wollte sauber bleiben": Werner Lansburghs Radioarbeit als Krisenerfahrung

Jürgen Schulz (Berlin/Sussex)
The BBC as Part of the German Exile Network in Britain during the Nazi Period

Jens Brüning (Berlin)
Die BBC als Vorbild für den Nachkriegsrundfunk in Deutschland

Lorle Louis-Hoffmann (Zürich)
Personal Recollections of the BBC Austrian Service, 1941-1945

Charmian Brinson (London)
"Patrick Smith bei den Österreichern" or "Austria Resurgat": The BBC Austrian Service 1942-1945

Richard Dove (London)
"It Tickled my Viennese Humour": Feature Programmes in the BBC Austrian Service1943-1945

Hans-Ulrich Wagner (NWDR, Hamburg)
Der Einfluss der London-Remigranten auf die westdeutsche Rundfunkgeschichte

Jennifer Taylor (London)
Two Women at the BBC, Christina Gibson and Grete Fischer: Aspects of BBC
Broadcasting to Germany in Relation to Government Policy during World War II

Friday, 27 September

Kristin Rebien (Stanford CA)
Burned Bridges: The Rise and Fall of the Former BBC Journalist Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler in East Germany

Wladimir Ostrogorski (Berlin)
Der bewunderte Rivale. Zur Wahrnehmung der deutschsprachigen Sendungen der BBC im Team des deutschsprachigen Dienstes von Radio Moskau

Toby Thacker (Cardiff)
Liberating German Musical Life: The BBC German Service and Planning for Music Control in Occupied Germany, 1944-1949

Peter Johnson (London)
Working as the BBC's German Service Representative and News Correspondent in West Berlin 1965-1970

Merete Blatz (Farnham, Surrey)
"Tips für Touristen" (1972-1999): Das Programm und dessen Rolle als Botschafter Großbritanniens und Fenster zum Westen

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