FINALISTS (pdf) | SHORTLIST: R · T · D | 2025 COMPETITION
Elke Tschaikner (ORF, Austria), Marie Virginie Mbuhnum (CRTV, Cameroon), Adriana Kramarić (HRT, Croatia), Kitano Yuko (NHK, Japan).
The President: Elke Tschaikner (ORF, Austria).
Republika Zahradníiíiíiíiíi (Republic of Zahradníiíiíiíiíi)
Concept: Loré Lixenberg, Fesrt Dadler. Direction, Sound: Ladislav Železný. Narrating Voices: Loré Lixenberg, Ladislav Železný. Actors: Ran Jiao, Jana Látalová, Loré Lixenberg, Barbora Matějková, Inga Zotova-Mikshin, Roman Zotov-Mikshin, Elia Moretti, Matěj Pour, Zden Brungot Svíteková, Lucie Vrbíková. Sound, Editing: Loré Lixenberg, Elia Moretti. Music Composition: Loré Lixenberg, Elia Moretti.
This radiophonic piece is based on the artistic research of Loré Lixenberg and the Ferst Dadler collective which took place in 2023-24 in the gardens of the Troja Castle and the Franciscan Garden in Prague. In this independent republic, citizenship is granted by the mere existence, and human and non-human beings have equal rights and are interconnected. The Republic of Zahradníiíiíiíiíi has redefined its territory in the radio space. In this republic, we exist through listening, and if citizenship is granted through existence, then listening becomes citizenship. Listening together is what brings us together and fosters a sense of belonging and identification with the Republic.
Presented by: Ladislav Železný, Music Producer in Creative Unit "Music"
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Ladislav Železný is Bohemia based artist, radio maker and curator. As a music director and sound designer for Czech Radio, he has been engaged in the development of sound design for radio plays and drama works. Since 2013 he has focused as a dramaturge on unconventional music and new forms of radio production, especially with reference to the experimental tradition in art. He curates the project Radiocustica, where among other things he prepares the programme show Radioateliér associated with exclusive premiere series PremEdition of Radioateliér and with connection to Euroradio Ars Acustica community he realizes special concert events, live broadcasts or recordings. The radio projects he has collaborated on and his artistic or dramaturgical activities have received numerous awards in his country and abroad. |
Rostropovitch, le violoncelle en liberté (Rostropovitch, The Cello of Freedom)
Author, Narrating Voice, Producer: François-Xavier Szymczak. Other Participants: Mstislav Rostropovitch, Galina Vishnevskaya, Olga Rostropovitch, Elena Rostropovitch, Alexandre Soljenytsine, Henri Dutilleux, Benjamin Britten, Dimitri Chostakovitch, Louis Aragon, Henri Sauguet, Witold Lutosławski, Pierre Fournier, Artur Rubinstein, Guennadi Rojdestvensky, Etienne Vatelot, Claude Samuel, Nina Apreleff, Frédéric Lodéon, Yo Yo Ma, Sonia Wieder-Atherton, Xavier Phillips, Anne Gastinel, Yehudi Menuhin, Jacques Chancel, Bernard Gavoty, Ulysse Gosset, Philippe Rochot, Daniel Bilalian, Antoine Riboud, Michèle Dumontier. Producing Organisation: France Musique.
Mstislav Rostropovich (1927-2007) is the subject of several documentaries and books but his lifelong career lacks comprehensive documentary research for the media. Using global radio-TV archives from France, Russia, UK, Italy, Germany, Austria or USA, the seven-episode new saga "Rostropovich, the cello in freedom" by François-Xavier Szymczak for France Musique, explores the life of the artist and his role in historical upheavals. Rostropovich performed classical and romantic repertoire, commissioned hundreds of scores, and conducted major orchestras. A talented pianist, he was also a revered teacher and humanist. With his wife soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, he sheltered dissident Solzhenitsyn, defended Sakharov, supported Yeltsin, and famously played Bach at the Berlin Wall, cementing his legacy as a global symbol of freedom.
Presented by: François-Xavier Szymczak, Radio producer at France Musique
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François-Xavier Szymczak was born in Douai, Northern France in 1973. A trained violinist, he studied musicology and modern literature at the Sorbonne before joining Radio France in 1995. Passionate about arts, he enjoys the blending of genres by bringing together history and individual destinies. His 7-episode-radio series "Rostropovitch, le violoncelle en liberté" is his third radio series for France Musique. He is the author and producer of "The Soul of the Stradivarius" and "David Oistrakh, the Violin and the Red Star". François-Xavier gives audiovisual lectures on the history of music across France. He has authored numerous concert texts, and has been a narrator on several music shows. He is an amateur violinist, playing with symphony orchestras and chamber music ensembles, and he hosts the Vienna New Year's Concert on France 2 every year. Awarded Chevalier des Arts & des Lettres in 2018, he currently runs "Les Essentiels", a daily radio show on France Musique. |
Wildly Tender Is Thy Music – Lieder aus dem Moor (Wildly Tender Is Thy Music – Songs from the Moor)
Authors, Direction: Merzouga (Eva Pöpplein, Janko Hanushevsky). Adapted from: Poems from the Moor by Emiliy Brontë. Narrating Voices: Veronika Bachfischer, Jean-Paul Baeck. Sound Track: Merzouga (Composition), Filippa Gojo (Vocals), Christoph Rieseberg (Sound engineer), Christoph Schumacher, Jens Müller (Sound technicians) . Editing: Sabine Küchler. Producing Organisation: Deutschlandfunk.
In her Poems from the Moor, Poet Emily Brontë evokes the bleak beauty of Yorkshire's moor covered hills where she grew up. The duo Merzouga transposes her poems into contemporary songs. Combined with notes from Brontë's journals, these songs are woven into an opulent sonic landscape of field recordings, vocals, and bio-acoustic recordings of water beetles. In Wildly Tender Is thy Music we accompany a bio-acoustician in a bird sanctuary on an island covered by moors. He records the habitat for a year, studying the cycle of the seasons. Merzouga dedicates one Brontë song to each season. By interrelating music and science, sound-art and poetry, Merzouga explores the importance of moors in the face of the climate-crisis and attempts to raise interest for this fascinating habitat between water and land.
Presented by: Janko Hanushevsky, Composer, Author, Director (Merzouga)
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Janko Hanushevsky is an electric bassist, composer, sound-artist, and radio-author. With electronic musician Eva Poepplein, he founded the duo Merzouga. Together they have been producing soundcompositions and sound-installations, ars acustica, radio drama, documentaries, and music for film and theater. Their works were premiered at Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Akademie der Künste Berlin, a.o. Their sound-installations were commissioned by Alte Pinakothek München, Humboldt Forum Berlin (permanent collection) and Museum Schnütgen a.o. Janko writes and directs cultural documentaries and radio dramas that equally use music, sounds, and language to tell a story. He has released more than 50 major radio-works, many of which won numerous awards, including Grand Prix Nova in Gold, Prix Marulic, Hörspiel des Monats, and Prix Europa (Shortlist). He also composed music-scores for award winning radio-dramas (a.o. Hörspielpreis der Kriegsblinden). Together with Eva he traveled extensively doing sound-research in India, Lao, Cambodia, Vietnam, Marocco, Ukraine, Greenland, South Africa, Namibia und Brasil, where he collected sounds and stories. He lives in Cologne/Germany. |
