Die unerhörte Generation

The monograph under review aims to be a comprehensive study of the medium of radio as a performative stage for debates and discussions surrounding the construction of adolescence and ‘youth’ as key markers of post-war societies in Germany and Britain. Christoph Hilgert sets out to embrace this topic on a multitude of analytical levels, ranging from a reconstruction of the role of the radio medium for post-war societies and the development of age-specific programming to the discourses of ‘youth’ evident in broadcasts and the involvement of the younger generation themselves in programmes which often treated youth as an object of comment and inquiry rather than as an active participant. The focus for comparison mainly rests on the north-western and south-western German radio broadcasters on the one hand, and on the other the diverse networks of the BBC, which had been adopted as a model for the reconstruction of radio broadcasting in West Germany after 1945

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