!!!Hörspiel

Radio Play: As a literary genre in its own right, radio plays are a 
mixture of dramatic, epic and lyrical elements realised through the 
spoken word, sound and music. In Austria, radio plays developed out of 
what was called "listening stage", an adaptation of stage plays. The 
head of the literature department of the  RAVAG, Hans Nuechtern, is 
recognised as a pioneer of the radio play ("Der Ackermann und der 
Tod", 1924), which has its own dramaturgical laws and relies 
greatly on a sound background to create a mood. Important authors of 
radio plays are A. Ehrenstein, A. Bronner, R. Billinger, H. 
Flesch-Brunningen, F. T. Csokor and T. H. Mayer. In the 
1950s, the classic period of radio plays, these "stage techniques" 
were eliminated in favour of the spoken word, a trend represented by 
I. Aichinger, H. Eisenreich, F. Hiesel, A. Giese, W. Riemerschmid, R. 
Bayr and I. Bachmann. While this type concentrated on the readability 
of texts, recent radio plays rely increasingly on purely acoustic 
phenomena (original sound, sound experiments, variations, "concrete 
poetry") as represented by P. Handke, F. Mayroecker, K. Bayer, G. 
Ruehm, M. Scharang, B. Frischmuth and E. Jandl.

!Literature
R. Heger, Das oesterreichische Hoerspiel, 1977; Dichtung 
aus Oesterreich, Hoerspiel, 1977; F. Hiesel (ed.), Repertoire 999. 
Literaturdenkmal Hoerspiel, 1990.


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