Mikes, Cables, Transmitters

How was the Austrofascist “Turks Deliverance Celebration” of May 14, 1933, broadcast live on Radio Wien?

Authors

  • Simon Ganahl Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences & Department for Communication, University of Vienna

Keywords:

1933, Austria, broadcasting, Fascism, loudspeaker, mass rally, media archaeology, microphone, public-address system, radio, RAVAG, Vienna

Abstract

This text is part of the digital mapping project Campus Medius, the historical case study of which deals mainly with the Austrofascist “Turks Deliverance Celebration” (Türkenbefreiungsfeier) held in Vienna on May 14, 1933. Here, the chapter of the study is republished that examines the equipment used for the live broadcast of the mass rally in the Schönbrunn Palace gardens as well as on Radio Wien. It follows a media-archaeological approach that does not primarily focus on the content of the transmitted speeches, but rather asks which infrastructure made these public communication processes possible in the first place.

Author Biography

Simon Ganahl, Institute of Creative\Media/Technologies, St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences & Department for Communication, University of Vienna

Mag. Dr. Dr. phil., born in 1981, researches and teaches as a literary and media scholar with a focus on digital humanities at the University of Vienna and the St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences in Austria. He is the head of the digital mapping project Campus Medius (campusmedius.net) and
managing editor of the peer-reviewed, open-access journal Genealogy+Critique (genealogy-critique.net) published by the London-based Open Library of Humanities (OLH). After studying liberal arts and social sciences in Vienna, Hamburg, and Zurich, he obtained PhD degrees both in communication science and in German philology at the University of Vienna. During his studies he  worked in journalism and in public relations. In his postdoctoral phase, he was a visiting researcher in the School of Media Studies at the New School in New York and a visiting lecturer in the Center for digital Humanities at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research work received several awards and grants, including the DOC and APART fellowships from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Schrödinger fellowship from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). His major book publications are: Campus Medius: Digital Mapping in Cultural and Media Studies (transcript 2022); Karl Kraus-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung (ed. with Katharina Prager, Metzler 2022); Karl Kraus und Peter Altenberg: Eine Typologie moderner Haltungen (Konstanz University Press 2015).

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Published

2024-07-08

How to Cite

Ganahl, S. . (2024). Mikes, Cables, Transmitters: How was the Austrofascist “Turks Deliverance Celebration” of May 14, 1933, broadcast live on Radio Wien?. Medien & Zeit. Communication in Past and Present, 39(1), 4–9. Retrieved from https://journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/mz/article/view/8828

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Vol. 39 No. 1 (2024): medien & zeit

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Chronotopos

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