Radio Play 09 - Nine Plays for the City

On 09/09/09 the winners of this Europe wide radio play competition came before us with something worth listening to.

Real listening: what else is it if not standing outside yourself, paying close attention to the story and letting it take you over? Now that even washing machines have taken to tormenting us with multimedia displays and the entertainment industry clogs our senses with its omnimedia barrage, when neologisms like ‘omnimedia’ are required in the first place and common sense has problems making itself heard – now is the time to concentrate on the true essential: listening. The good old radio play is proving a real chameleon in the times of iPod, podcast and audio books, a creature that adapts, reinvents itself and yet remains true to its strengths.

Radio Play 09 is the product of a cooperation between Linz09, HMH and ORF Radio OE1. Together they will commission a contest for radio plays up to nine minutes of length in German, three of which will be awarded and aired in Capital of Culture year and six in the ensuing years up to 2011.
The debut performance of the winning projects took place on 9th of September at the RUBBLE MASTER HMH GmbH assembly hall, Im Südpark 196 in Linz.

Awarded first prize with € 3,000 was Sarah Seekircher for her radio play titled "Fabrikkinder" about children working in the textile industry, which was the case even in Linz in former days. The second prize with € 2,000 was for Qin Huang's sound composition "Industry". Elisabeth Putz won the third prize with her contribution "Industry" dealing with the process of selection in both, the entertainment industry ("America's Next Top Model") and the death camps of the NAZIs.
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Idea / Concept: Linz09
In collaboration with RUBBLE MASTER HMH GmbH and ORF OE1