Staging the Audible

The foremost aim of the project is to research the development of Austrian radio plays and radio literature as well as their reception between 1945 and 2000. Lines of development in radio productions of Austrian literature are to be elaborated with the help of new sources and are to be linked with existing literature. This is to be the very first comprehensive expert and historico-cultural overview which analyses the importance of communicating Austrian literature over the radio and, in some cases, over other acoustic media. In the framework of the project, reference will be made to the relevant international scientific landscape by collecting and analysing the implementation of Austrian literature by German-language radio corporations (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation 1 , corporations in West and East Germany and in Switzerland) during the research period. Translations and their implementations on the radio will be included in digressions. The international theoretical discourse about radio plays and literature on the radio will also be continuously reflected. Known and previously unknown sources will be brought together and scientifically evaluated. The linkage of written material and the respective productions is a particularly innovative achievement in the fields of theatre and literature. The extensive analysis of systematically processed material will be based on production-related and reception-related historical questions as well as on text-analytic and text- genetic questions and will, for the very first time, provide extensive interdisciplinary results in the field of historico-cultural basic research. The basis to systematically research the development of Austrian radio plays is provided by new material (the transfer of the estate of Franz Hiesel into the Vienna City Archives) and the availability of project-relevant sources in libraries and archives. The new basis provides for the protection of audio material, in particular of productions, which are no longer available in radio or audio archives, and opens new perspectives to analyse and evaluate oral literature. The project guarantees the preservation and oral tradition of information beyond the written word. On the one hand, the results will provide an extensive basis for the further interdisciplinary research of oral literature and, on the other hand, present the very first representative historico-cultural study on radio literature. 1 Regarding the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) after 1955, and before that the Austrian corporations "RAVAG", "Sendegruppe rot-weiß-rot" and "Alpenland"

The foremost aim of the project is to research the development of Austrian radio plays and radio literature as well as their reception between 1945 and 2000. Lines of development in radio productions of Austrian literature are to be elaborated with the help of new sources and are to be linked with existing literature. This is to be the very first comprehensive expert and historico-cultural overview which analyses the importance of communicating Austrian literature over the radio and, in some cases, over other acoustic media. In the framework of the project, reference will be made to the relevant international scientific landscape by collecting and analysing the implementation of Austrian literature by German-language radio corporations (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation 1 , corporations in West and East Germany and in Switzerland) during the research period. Translations and their implementations on the radio will be included in digressions. The international theoretical discourse about radio plays and literature on the radio will also be continuously reflected. Known and previously unknown sources will be brought together and scientifically evaluated. The linkage of written material and the respective productions is a particularly innovative achievement in the fields of theatre and literature. The extensive analysis of systematically processed material will be based on production-related and reception-related historical questions as well as on text-analytic and text- genetic questions and will, for the very first time, provide extensive interdisciplinary results in the field of historico-cultural basic research. The basis to systematically research the development of Austrian radio plays is provided by new material (the transfer of the estate of Franz Hiesel into the Vienna City Archives) and the availability of project-relevant sources in libraries and archives. The new basis provides for the protection of audio material, in particular of productions, which are no longer available in radio or audio archives, and opens new perspectives to analyse and evaluate oral literature. The project guarantees the preservation and oral tradition of information beyond the written word. On the one hand, the results will provide an extensive basis for the further interdisciplinary research of oral literature and, on the other hand, present the very first representative historico-cultural study on radio literature. 1 Regarding the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) after 1955, and before that the Austrian corporations "RAVAG", "Sendegruppe rot-weiß-rot" and "Alpenland".