One hour of history live
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| 8 € / reduced 4 € |
| 12 years and older |
| German |
| Hall 1, Ground Floor |
There are no historical topics that have not already been the subject of radio or TV features. This also applies to the German Revolution of 1848/49, which was usually described as a “failure” because the goals and demands of the revolutionaries were not immediately reflected in the policies of the German Confederation. In the long term, however, the revolution achieved a great deal and had a decisive influence on German history: with the formulation of basic human rights and a democratic constitution, through the emergence of the workers’ and women’s movement, a flourishing newspaper landscape and many political parties. The revolution in Germany was triggered by the “February Revolution” in Paris in 1848 and the “March Revolution” in Berlin, which is celebrating its 175th anniversary this weekend. The site of the uprising was Berlin’s City Palace and today’s Humboldt Forum, which was also the site of the Spartacus Uprising in 1919 and the peaceful revolution in the GDR in 1989.
The successful podcast “One Hour of History” by Deutschlandfunk Nova brings the past into the present and tries to explain why we have become the way we are. History is the daily politics of the past, our politics is the history of tomorrow. The innovative radio format “One Hour of History” conveys the insight that our social actions today are of decisive importance for the lives of later generations. Therefore, the preoccupation with one’s own history is combined with the call to take an interest in today’s politics and to play an active role in shaping it.
“Learning from history” in the best sense of the word: without memorising dates, “One Hour of History” by Deutschlandfunk Nova follows the traces that point from the past into the present and future.
Moderation: Markus Dichmann
Interlocutors: Alexandra Bleyer, Jörg Bong, Matthias von Hellfeld, Judith Prokasky
Link to the program recording
Alexandra Bleyer holds a doctorate in history and is a freelance author. Her work focuses on propaganda, the age of Napoleon, and the Vormärz. After “Napoleon. 100 pages” and “Propaganda. 100 pages”, Reclam Verlag has now published “1848. The success story of a filed revolution”.
Dr. Judith Prokasky is currently the head of the multi-year program focus “The Palace of the Republic is Present” and a staff member of the “History of the Site” department at the Humboldt Forum Foundation. She has worked as a curator and cultural manager in the museum field since 2001 and has published widely on the history of media and memory (“From Event to Myth. The Paris Commune in the Visual Media 1871-1914,” “The Camera as a Weapon. Propaganda Images of the Second World War,” “Myth of Revolution. Karl Liebknecht, the Berlin Palace and November 9, 1918” and others).
Jörg Bong, born in 1966, holds a doctorate in literary studies, is an author, freelance publicist, and former publisher of S. Fischer Verlag (until 2019). He has written for the FAZ, DIE ZEIT, and SPIEGEL, among others. He publishes crime novels under the name Jean-Luc Bannalec. Most recently, Bong edited the book “57 Interventions for Culture” together with Marion Ackermann, Gesine Schwan and Carsten Brosda.
Markus Dichmann, born in 1987, is a freelance author, reporter and presenter on Deutschlandradio’s programs. For Deutschlandfunk Nova, he hosts the weekly magazine “One Hour of History,” which won the German Podcast Award in 2019 and was nominated for the German Radio Award in 2017. For his work as a writer and reporter, often on historical topics, he won the German-French Journalism Award and was nominated for the German-Polish Tadeusz-Mazowiecki Award. As a Johannes Rau fellow, he worked as a freelance correspondent in Istanbul. He did a traineeship at Deutschlandradio, studied Communication Science, Politics & Law at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, and has previously worked in print, radio and television (WAZ, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk).
Dr. Matthias von Hellfeld, born in 1954, has been a freelance journalist and historian since 1978. He works as a presenter and editor at ARD and is currently the editor in charge of the magazine “One Hour of History” at Deutschlandfunk Nova. Von Hellfeld has contributed to numerous radio features and TV documentaries. He is also a lecturer at various universities and training academies and the author of more than 25 non-fiction books on European and German history. In 1984, he won the Carl von Ossietzky Award of the city of Oldenburg, was nominated for the German Radio Award in 2017, and received the German Podcast Award in 2019.
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