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Thomas Wohinz, Head of RadioKulturhaus #63 A house with future?
Like all cultural institutions, we had to reprogram our programming behind the scenes several times in 2020, develop prevention concepts for the safety of our audiences, and shut down event operations again and again during each lockdown. However, thanks to innovative recording technology, we were able to deliver digital cultural programming to our audience's living rooms from the first week of Lockdown in March 2020, providing streaming replacement programming during the cultural shutdown. The technical development of the area in recent years - above all the possibility of unmanned television recordings - has made the RadioKulturhaus an indispensable partner for all content-producing departments at ORF. We have streamed concerts from the archive. From May on, we opened the stages for artists and brought solo and duo concerts, CD releases and interesting talks live from the RKH stages via stream to our visitors' homes. Another highlight then in November, was the festival Wien Modern with Polwechsel and Klaus Lang as guests in the Großer Sendesaal and in December with My Ugly Clemetine, Alicia Edelweiss and Wiener Blond. With Wolfram Berger, Erwin Steinhauer and Manuel Rubey, the cabaret scene was strongly represented too. Additionally, ORF RadioKulturhaus developed a new series of talks in addition to the existing ones ("DialogForum," "Im Gespräch"). In "Auf eine Melange mit Musalek," Dr. Michael Musalek, head of the Institute for Social Aesthetics and Mental Health at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna and Berlin, talks about different aspects and perspectives of crises and exceptional mental situations, as well as coping strategies and processes of change.
This series will also be offered as an Ö1 podcast. In the future, the RadioKulturhaus will also become a content supplier for the ORF Player sections Topos and Sound, and will remain a suitable production site for new formats yet to be developed for TV. And online.