N.S.-Funk
{{Short description|German Nazi radio magazine (1933–1939)}}
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N.S.-Funk ("National Socialist Radio") was a German magazine published from Munich and Berlin between 1933 and 1939. It provided listings of radio programming schedules and reviewed programmes in accordance with the party line.
History
In 1932, the Nazi party leadership decided to start a radio magazine of its own to compete with the various existing radio magazines.{{cite book | title=Nationalsozialistisches Jahrbuch | publisher=Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger | year=1936 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uEMyAAAAMAAJ | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Verlag Franz Eher Nachfolger | 1936}} | access-date=2023-08-04}} The publication was founded in February 1933 as the first official Nazi radio magazine, tasked with providing listings of radio programming schedules in Germany and reviewing them in accordance with the party line.{{cite book | last=Wittje | first=R. | title=The Age of Electroacoustics: Transforming Science and Sound | publisher=MIT Press | series=Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology | year=2016 | isbn=978-0-262-33653-6 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X57uDwAAQBAJ | access-date=2023-08-04}}{{cite book | last1=Schreiner | first1=A. | last2=Woodman | first2=D. | title=Hitler Rearms: An Exposure of Germany's War Plans | publisher=John Lane | year=1934 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wL1BAAAAIAAJ | access-date=2023-08-04}} It replaced the radio magazine {{ill|Der Deutsche Sender|de}} ('The German Broadcaster'), as the former {{ill|Reich Association of German Broadcasters|de|Reichsverband Deutscher Rundfunkteilnehmer}} (RDR) was taken over by the Reich Broadcasting Chamber.Bruce B. Campbell. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_MK3DwAAQBAJ The Radio Hobby, Private Associations, and the Challenge of Modernity in Germany]. Springer Nature, 18 oct. 2019. p. 156 It was published from Munich and Berlin until 1939,{{cite book | last=Gruner | first=W. | title=German Reich 1933–1937 | publisher=De Gruyter | year=2019 | isbn=978-3-11-043519-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HFqXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA315 | language=de | access-date=2023-08-04}} when it was merged into the magazine Volksfunk ('People's Radio').{{cite book |title=The Library of Congress Author Catalog Volume 22 |date=1953 |publisher=Library of Congress |page=430}}
N.S.-Funk was a central organ of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) and the {{ill|Reich Broadcasting Chamber|de|Reichsrundfunkkammer}} (a body within the Reich Chamber of Culture).{{cite book | title=Verordnungsblatt der Reichsleitung | year=1936 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TK1XAAAAMAAJ | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Verordnungsblatt der Reichsleitung | 1936}} | access-date=2023-08-04}} It was published by Franz Eher Nachfolger, the central publishing body of the Nazi Party. It had an editorial branch office at Zimmerstrasse 88 in Berlin. Heinz Frante was the editor in chief of N.S.-Funk. Over time, N.S.-Funk grew in popularity, by early 1937 it reached a circulation of about a quarter million copies.
In contrast to other contemporary German radio magazines N.S.-Funk was published in various regional editions, covering each of the different broadcasting districts, such as Bavaria, Berlin, Silesia, East Prussia, Saar-Palatinate, Central Germany, Western Germany, Southwest Germany, North Germany and South Germany.{{cite book | last=Dresler | first=A. | title=Geschichte des "Völkischen Beobachters" und des Zentralverlages der NSDAP., Franz Eher Nachf | publisher=F. Eher Nachf. | year=1937 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mydXAAAAMAAJ | language=de | access-date=2023-08-04}} It was an illustrated weekly.{{cite book | last=Unger | first=E. | title=Das Schrifttum zum Aufbau des neuen Reiches: 1919 - 1.1.34 | publisher=U. Berg | series=Toppenstedter Reihe | year=1983 | isbn=978-3-922119-08-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhAuAAAAYAAJ | language=de | access-date=2023-08-04}}
During the prolonged Volkssender-Aktion propaganda campaign, each copy of N.S.-Funk would typically carry one or two pages dedicated to the announcements of the campaign.{{cite book | last=Bressler | first=E.S. | title=Von der Experimentierbühne zum Propagandainstrument: die Geschichte der Funkausstellung von 1924 bis 1939 | publisher=Böhlau | series=Medien in Geschichte und Gegenwart | year=2009 | isbn=978-3-412-20241-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X_UKGRdpio8C | language=de | access-date=2023-08-04}} The publication Funktechnischer Vorwärts functioned as the radio technical edition of N.S.-Funk and Volksfunk.{{cite book | title=Die Verlagserscheinungen des Zentralverlages der NSDAP | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ux6KyLzFLO8C | page=183 | language=de | ref={{sfnref | Die Verlagserscheinungen des Zentralverlages der Nsdap}} | access-date=2023-08-04}}