Tue April 19, 2016
Ten Seconds From Now: The American radiopioneer Elsa Knight Thompson - feature by Martina Groß
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at Goethe Institut German Cultural Center
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Radio - not only music but also information and opinion. What would a city look like without this mouthpiece? As part of the exhibition “Weltstadt – who creates the city” the Goethe-Institut presents a radio broadcast which exemplified life in the city.
The fierce and controversial journalist Elsa Knight Thompson spearheaded the political editorial department of KPFA in Berkeley for fourteen years, the first radio station which was paid by its listeners. Her main interest was in social outcasts who had no chance to be heard by the media. She believed in dialogue, freedom of opinion and the fact that the most important task of journalists is to illuminate the backgrounds of political and social developments and to provide the public with all information needed for the perception of their rights. KPFA covered topics like the McCarthy processes, interviews with the Black Panthers, reports of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley and the growing counterculture in the USA.
The woman with the husky voice was one of the first political radio journalists and often shocked her audience with her reports and interviews. She was equipped with sharp brains and wit, was considered uncompromising, brave, stubborn and quarrelsome. She was loved and hated by friends and foes. And sometimes both simultaneously.
(Deutschlandfunk 2010)
Martina Groß studied German literature, journalism and sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1997 she has been writing features about music, literature, female American lawyers, seniors, radio producers or the Basque cooperative "Mondragon" for public service broadcasting in Germany. Her broadcast "Ten seconds from now - the American radio pioneer Elsa Knight Thompson " (DLF 2010) was awarded the 2010 Juliane Bartel Media Award. "Lynne Stewart, an American history" (DLF 2012) was nominated for the Liberty Award in 2013. Her latest productions were: "We are like gods and we can be just as good - The Hippies and the Cyberspace " (SWR, DLF 2014) and "Living radical. The British artists Gee Vaucher and Penny Rimbaud" (DLF 2015).
This event can be best described as radio documentation (in German) accompanied by visuals as well as optional English manuscripts.
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The fierce and controversial journalist Elsa Knight Thompson spearheaded the political editorial department of KPFA in Berkeley for fourteen years, the first radio station which was paid by its listeners. Her main interest was in social outcasts who had no chance to be heard by the media. She believed in dialogue, freedom of opinion and the fact that the most important task of journalists is to illuminate the backgrounds of political and social developments and to provide the public with all information needed for the perception of their rights. KPFA covered topics like the McCarthy processes, interviews with the Black Panthers, reports of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley and the growing counterculture in the USA.
The woman with the husky voice was one of the first political radio journalists and often shocked her audience with her reports and interviews. She was equipped with sharp brains and wit, was considered uncompromising, brave, stubborn and quarrelsome. She was loved and hated by friends and foes. And sometimes both simultaneously.
(Deutschlandfunk 2010)
Martina Groß studied German literature, journalism and sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1997 she has been writing features about music, literature, female American lawyers, seniors, radio producers or the Basque cooperative "Mondragon" for public service broadcasting in Germany. Her broadcast "Ten seconds from now - the American radio pioneer Elsa Knight Thompson " (DLF 2010) was awarded the 2010 Juliane Bartel Media Award. "Lynne Stewart, an American history" (DLF 2012) was nominated for the Liberty Award in 2013. Her latest productions were: "We are like gods and we can be just as good - The Hippies and the Cyberspace " (SWR, DLF 2014) and "Living radical. The British artists Gee Vaucher and Penny Rimbaud" (DLF 2015).
This event can be best described as radio documentation (in German) accompanied by visuals as well as optional English manuscripts.
Radio - not only music but also information and opinion. What would a city look like without this mouthpiece? As part of the exhibition “Weltstadt – who creates the city” the Goethe-Institut presents a radio broadcast which exemplified life in the city.
The fierce and controversial journalist Elsa Knight Thompson spearheaded the political editorial department of KPFA in Berkeley for fourteen years, the first radio station which was paid by its listeners. Her main interest was in social outcasts who had no chance to be heard by the media. She believed in dialogue, freedom of opinion and the fact that the most important task of journalists is to illuminate the backgrounds of political and social developments and to provide the public with all information needed for the perception of their rights. KPFA covered topics like the McCarthy processes, interviews with the Black Panthers, reports of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley and the growing counterculture in the USA.
The woman with the husky voice was one of the first political radio journalists and often shocked her audience with her reports and interviews. She was equipped with sharp brains and wit, was considered uncompromising, brave, stubborn and quarrelsome. She was loved and hated by friends and foes. And sometimes both simultaneously.
(Deutschlandfunk 2010)
Martina Groß studied German literature, journalism and sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1997 she has been writing features about music, literature, female American lawyers, seniors, radio producers or the Basque cooperative "Mondragon" for public service broadcasting in Germany. Her broadcast "Ten seconds from now - the American radio pioneer Elsa Knight Thompson " (DLF 2010) was awarded the 2010 Juliane Bartel Media Award. "Lynne Stewart, an American history" (DLF 2012) was nominated for the Liberty Award in 2013. Her latest productions were: "We are like gods and we can be just as good - The Hippies and the Cyberspace " (SWR, DLF 2014) and "Living radical. The British artists Gee Vaucher and Penny Rimbaud" (DLF 2015).
This event can be best described as radio documentation (in German) accompanied by visuals as well as optional English manuscripts.
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The fierce and controversial journalist Elsa Knight Thompson spearheaded the political editorial department of KPFA in Berkeley for fourteen years, the first radio station which was paid by its listeners. Her main interest was in social outcasts who had no chance to be heard by the media. She believed in dialogue, freedom of opinion and the fact that the most important task of journalists is to illuminate the backgrounds of political and social developments and to provide the public with all information needed for the perception of their rights. KPFA covered topics like the McCarthy processes, interviews with the Black Panthers, reports of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley and the growing counterculture in the USA.
The woman with the husky voice was one of the first political radio journalists and often shocked her audience with her reports and interviews. She was equipped with sharp brains and wit, was considered uncompromising, brave, stubborn and quarrelsome. She was loved and hated by friends and foes. And sometimes both simultaneously.
(Deutschlandfunk 2010)
Martina Groß studied German literature, journalism and sociology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Since 1997 she has been writing features about music, literature, female American lawyers, seniors, radio producers or the Basque cooperative "Mondragon" for public service broadcasting in Germany. Her broadcast "Ten seconds from now - the American radio pioneer Elsa Knight Thompson " (DLF 2010) was awarded the 2010 Juliane Bartel Media Award. "Lynne Stewart, an American history" (DLF 2012) was nominated for the Liberty Award in 2013. Her latest productions were: "We are like gods and we can be just as good - The Hippies and the Cyberspace " (SWR, DLF 2014) and "Living radical. The British artists Gee Vaucher and Penny Rimbaud" (DLF 2015).
This event can be best described as radio documentation (in German) accompanied by visuals as well as optional English manuscripts.
show less
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