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Podcast Zeitgeister On Air

Our hosts Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson and Dina Elsayed chat to international Kafka experts from every corner of the world and hear the Kafka stories they are keen to share with us.

Visual: Tobias Schrank Podcast Zeitgeister on Air

Psycho test Which Kafka character are you?

If you were a character from one of Kafka’s novels, which one would you be? Maybe her – the beguiling Fräulein Bürstner? Answer a few questions to find out in our psycho test.

Illustration by Beatrice Davies  Drawing of Kafka's novel character: Fräulein Bürstner

What else is on offer?

Marius Goldhorn And all the prophets?

I am or I am not a nurse, a sailor, a schoolgirl − Marius Goldhorn’s story is about a voice on all frequencies and a little boy with a fondness for currant buns.

Illustration: Tanita Olbrich And all the prophets?

Ale Cohen and Dublab The Sound of Los Angeles

The author Sascha Ehlert visited Ale Cohen at the Dublab Studio in Los Angeles. Ale has been involved with the Dublab radio station for decades. And our dear colleague Stefan Kloo took photos.

Image: Stefan Kloo At the Dublab studio in Los Angeles (in front Stefan Kloo, in the back Sascha Ehlert and Ale Cohen)

“There was nothing to say” Bertolt Brecht and the radio

When radio in Germany celebrates its one hundredth anniversary, there is one guest who definitely deserves to be invited to the party: Bertolt Brecht. Andreas Ströhl has written about the role that Brecht played in shaping radio as we know it today.

© picture alliance / Photo12/Archives Snark Portrait of Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956)

Electricity experiment Hiss… crackle… pop

Two schoolboys play with an electronics kit. The instructions contain a warning. What will the boys do?

Photo (detail): MAbW via Wikimedia Commons; CC BY-SA 4.0 Experiment kit “Radio and electronics”


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