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E. Huwiler

Bio: E. Huwiler is an academic researcher from University of Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Drama & Frame (networking). The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 12 publications receiving 39 citations.

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01 Jan 2016

6 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, a methodology with which radio drama pieces can be analyzed is established, which integrates all features the art form has to offer: voices, music, noises, but also technical features like cutting and mixing.
Abstract: This article establishes a methodology with which radio drama pieces can be analysed. It thereby integrates all features the art form has to offer: voices, music, noises, but also technical features like cutting and mixing contribute to the narrative that is being told. This approach emphasizes the importance of seeing radio drama as an art form in its own right, and not as a literary genre. An analysis of radio drama adapted from literary pieces shows how varied the features with which the same story can be told in the two art forms can be.

4 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate that radio drama is an acoustic art form in its own right and to show how literary scholars can still integrate this art form into their research, even though a large number of literary scholars still see the genre as a literary one.
Abstract: 80 years ago radio drama was ‘invented’. Today there is widespread agreement among radio drama theorists and artists that radio drama is an art form in its own right. But a large number of literary scholars still see the genre as a literary one. This article seeks to illuminate the reasons for this holding-on to a rather old-fashioned idea in the field of literary studies by first describing the initial developments of the art form in different European countries and then looking more closely at the development of the “Horspiel” in German speaking countries from 1924 until today. The aim of the article is to demonstrate that radio drama is an acoustic art form in its own right and to show how literary scholars can still integrate this art form into their research.

2 citations


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01 Oct 2015
TL;DR: The debate about wearing the full niqab or burka in public has been a hot topic in the debate about identity politics in the West since the 1990s as mentioned in this paper, and the French National Assembly decided in 2010 to categorically ban the wearing of the burka.
Abstract: The veil and the headscarf have become deeply controversial signifiers of identity in recent years. In a conjuncture which is rather too hastily described as ‘a clash of civilizations’, in Christian-secular western Europe wearing the veil or scarf in public has come to epitomize a fundamentalist and antimodern Islamic culture that is opposed to freedom and emancipation. Fierce debates about banning the scarf and veil have taken place in France and Germany, as also in other countries like Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland. The way in which this issue has escalated as a theme in the debate about identity politics is nowhere clearer than in the July 2010 decision of the French National Assembly to categorically ban the wearing of the full niqab or burka, in the name of human dignity and equality. In the opinion of many commentators, this amounted to a highly questionable readiness to enforce dignity and equality at the expense of the rights of individual freedom. The vehemence of the debate, and the ease with which the basic rights of individuals were overridden, demonstrate a preoccupation with questions of identity that far exceeds the material question of dress alone. In view of this vehemence, it is not surprising to find an ostensibly stark dichotomy of values in play: tradition as opposed to modernity, progress as opposed to reaction, religion to reason, and emancipation to oppression. But if we look at how the question of veiling has been negotiated in Europe since the Reformation, it becomes clear how deeply invested the West has been in this history of uncovering and concealing. It also becomes clear just how complex and contradictory are the criteria, and thus also the values, that have been applied to both the enforcement of veiling and its prohibition. This essay will offer a history of veiling regulations in Catholic and Reformed societies of early modern Europe that are often as unexpected as they are stereotypical. The chequered history of the demarcations this has involved will hopefully help us to challenge the false polarization of allegedly sharp distinctions in the current debates about veiling. In 1827 Johann Georg Krünitz’s Oekonomische Encyklopädie was still well aware of the volatile history of the female veil in western European societies.

13 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare two kinds of presentation structure (dramatisation versus narration) in a fictional radio story to determine the extent to which the imagination is aroused and the point in which the listener becomes involved.
Abstract: It has always been stated that the radio is the invisible medium that has the greatest effect in stimulating the imagination of listeners. Therefore, this article intends to compare two kinds of presentation structure—dramatisation versus narration—in a fictional radio story to determine the extent to which the imagination is aroused and the point to which the listener becomes involved. The outcomes of the study point to the fact that the dramatised structure is the form of presentation that is best able to fulfil these aims.

12 citations

01 Jan 2008
TL;DR: Huwiler et al. as discussed by the authors argued that radio drama is an acoustic art form in its own right and should be analyzed as such. But they did not consider the relationship between radio drama and stage performance.
Abstract: In German-speaking research on ‘Horspiele’ or radio plays, there is little to be found when it comes to adequate theoretical tools for analysing a radio play. Radio drama is still widely seen as a literary genre and is therefore analysed by literary studies theories or drama theories. This article argues that radio drama is an acoustic art form in its own right and should be analysed as such. Its aim is to support this argument first by describing the historical reasons that led to the misinterpretation of the art form, and then by presenting a methodology, based on semiotic and narratological theories, that enables scholars to analyse a narrative radio play by integrating all of its acoustic features. The article seeks to emphasize that music, noises and voices and also technical features like electroacoustical manipulation or mixing, can be, and often are, used as tools to signify story elements and therefore should be analysed accordingly. To demonstrate the applicability of the model, a short analysis of some German radio plays is presented at the end of the article. This article summarizes the results of research, to be published in German, in which an analytical model for radio drama research is presented, the object of the study being 60 German radio plays from 1929 to 2002 (Huwiler 2005). Although there are reasons why we should not equate the German ‘Horspiel’ with the English ‘radio play’, the two terms are used equivalently in this article. In general, these reasons arise from the separate developments of the art form in the two different language regions. Horst Priessnitz observes that in ‘contrast with the way things developed in Germany, where the Horspiel could at an early date free itself from its connections with the theatre, the English radio play remained for a longer period in close alliance with stage performance’ (Priessnitz 1981: 32). However, I will show in this article that the German ‘Horspiel’, though at first more independent of stage drama than was the English radio play, was also strongly influenced by literary tradition and not as independent as Priessnitz suggests. Moreover, it is not only the case that the terms ‘radio play’ and ‘Horspiel’ have never been exactly synonymous at any one time, but between them they cannot even provide a historically coherent definition of the art form in the two language regions, since neither term 45 RJ–ISBAM 3 (1) 45–59 © Intellect Ltd 2005 Keywords

12 citations