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17 unusual facts about Norddeutscher Rundfunk


Barack Obama – Der schwarze Kennedy

Kennedy is very popular in Germany, with many recalling his famous statement, “Ich bin ein Berliner" (“I am a Berliner”) – given in West Berlin in 1963 at the height of the Cold War. Steffen Hallaschka, a moderator for Germany's NDR TV, said: "Germans in the '60s projected a lot of hope and fantasies on Kennedy.

Bob Lanese

Soon after, he landed a job with the NDR (Norddeutsche Rundfunk, or North German Radio) big band in Hamburg.

Copa Airlines Flight 201

A year after the crash, the story of the crash of Flight 201 and its investigation was featured in a WGBH, BBC, and NDR documentary.

DAIM

The report from 1993 Die Sprayer by the German broadcast station NDR accompanies DAIM together with other writers from Hamburg and examines graffiti as a phenomenon between vandalism and art.

Ernst Wallfisch

:: Carl Maria von Weber: Andante e rondo ongarese in C minor for viola and orchestra, Op.35 (1809); Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg; NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg; recorded 1964

:: Carl Maria von Weber: Variations on "A Schüsserl und a Rein'dl'" in C major for viola and orchestra (1806); Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg; NDR-Sinfonieorchester Hamburg; recorded 1976

George Gruntz

George Gruntz with the NDR Bigband and Tom Rainey – Dig My Trane – Coltrane’s Vanguard Years (1961–1962), 2012

Hans Koller

From 1958 to 1965 he directed the jazz workshops of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg, returning to Vienna in 1970.

Herb Geller

Geller stayed there for three years and then accepted a contract to play lead alto and also arrange for the big band of NDR in Hamburg.

Howard Arman

Arman has conducted (among others) the radio choirs of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, the Südwestrundfunk, the Österreichischer Rundfunk and the RIAS Kammerchor.

Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park

The Lüneburg Heath Wildlife Park hosted the zoo documentary series, Weiches Fell und scharfe Krallen ("Soft fur, sharp claws"), produced by the German TV company, NDR.

Mojca Erdmann

In 2002 she won First Prize and the Special Prize for Contemporary Music at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang (Federal Singing Competition), and in August 2005 she was awarded the Luitpold Prize at the Kissingen Summer Festival and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk Music Prize at the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival.

NDR Radiophilharmonie

The NDR Radiophilharmonie is the symphony orchestra of the broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hannover.

Norderoog

In 2008, Norddeutscher Rundfunk broadcast a television documentary Die Vogelmutter. Videotagebuch 2008 - aufgezeichnet von Anna B. The birds' mother. 2008 video log recorded by Anna B..

Ralf Popken

He has made numerous radio recordings for Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and Dutch and Swiss radios and is noted for singing Bach cantatas.

Rolande Falcinelli

From her marriage with Felix Otto, a producer from Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hamburg, Germany, she had a daughter, Sylviane (b. 1956), a French musicologist.

Störtebeker Festival

Originally founded in 1959 as part of an East German culture initiative, it has become Germany's most successful open air theatre event, and is broadcast by public television network NDR.


Abduction of Jakub Fiszman

From prison, Rainer Körppen has filed suits against various German media, including the Berliner Zeitung, the Hessischer Rundfunk and the Norddeutscher Rundfunk, claiming that the reproduction of his full name in the online archives of the media coverage about his crime is in violation of his right to privacy.

Bettina Tietjen

From January 1997 to September 2007 she was together with Eva Hermann talk show host of Stargeflüster on NDR: Together with Eckart von Hirschhausen she is since September 2009 talk show host of Tietjen und Hirschhausen on German broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk.

Das Floß der Medusa

However, prior to the aborted performance a recording was made, with soloists Edda Moser, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Charles Régnier, several choirs and the Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, conducted by the composer.

Evelyn Hamann

She was born into a family of musicians in Hamburg, Germany: her father Bernhard Hamann was a violinist, the concertmaster of the NDR symphony orchestra, and founder of the Hamann Quartet; her mother was a singer and music teacher, and her brother Gerhard was a professor of cello at the Trossingen School of Music.

Gerard Ryle

"To analyze the documents, ICIJ collaborated with reporters from The Guardian and the BBC in the U.K., Le Monde in France, Süddeutsche Zeitung and Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Germany, The Washington Post, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and 31 other media partners around the world.

Radio DDR 1

Following German reunification, Radio aktuell's frequencies were transferred to the new public-service broadcasting organizations Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (covering Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia) and Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg, and to the Hamburg-based Norddeutscher Rundfunk which took over as public-service broadcaster in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.