%0 Journal Article
%T From the golden age of television: The case of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
%A Volker Pantenburg
%A null
%J Critical Studies in Television
%@ 1749-6039
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1749602018818263
%X The mid-1970s proved a particularly fertile moment in the encounter between cinema and television in West Germany. Focusing on different editorial units at Cologne-based Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), this dossier traces the sense of experimentation at the public service broadcaster. Commissioning editors like Werner D¨¹tsch at the film unit, Angelika Wittlich and the series Telekritik, but also those at the department ¡®Language and Literature¡¯ made it possible for critics and film-makers like Harun Farocki to explore essayistic formats and programmes. The dossier combines a retrospective essay by WDR commissioning editor D¨¹tsch, several archival documents from 1974 to 1976, and starts with a contextualising essay by Pantenburg
%K WDR
%K TV essay film
%K documentary
%K film history
%K experimental TV
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1749602018818263