This round table with Nathalie Singer (Germany), Anne-Claire Lainé (France) and Oana Cristea Grigorescu (Romania) explores the broadcasting and distribution channels for radio creation in Europe. How can we identify and build audience loyalty in a sector that remains largely unknown to the general public? What role should festivals, platforms and radio play? Moderated by Andrei Popov (Romania), with the contribution of Elisabeth Weilenmann (Austria).
September 26
11:00 - 12:30
French Institute
What distribution for European radio creation?
Also available online, Panel discussion | Language: English, Open to students and professionnals
Producers and broadcasters will discuss the challenges, obstacles, and opportunities of distributing audio and radiophonic works at both European and international levels.
Oana Cristea Grigorescu is a theater critic and editor at Radio Romania Bucharest, the editorial office of the National Radio Theater. She holds a doctorate in music from the “Gheorghe Dima” Academy of Music in Cluj and has been a member of UNITER since 1997. Between 1995 and 2016, she worked as a cultural journalist at Radio Romania Cluj and a local correspondent for Radio Romania Cultural. As a theater critic, she is invited to the juries of theater festivals and collaborates with specialized articles and interviews for magazines such as Observator Cultural, Scena.ro, Capital Cultural, but also at the cultural portal www.liternet.ro
Anne-Claire Lainé is the director of the association Longueur d’ondes, founded in 2002 in Brest. Since 2012, she has coordinated the eponymous festival, France’s main event dedicated to radio and listening. With degrees in contemporary history and documentary cinema, she began her career at France Culture, notably on the programs La Fabrique de l’histoire and Les Nuits magnétiques. Her work is dedicated to promoting and defending radio creation as a genre in its own right.
Nathalie Singer is a professor of experimental radio at Bauhaus University Weimar, a radio artist, producer, and curator. Former dramaturge at Deutschlandradio Kultur, she created new radio formats. Her research focuses on sound art archives and their mediation, notably through the exhibition Radiophonic Spaces. She founded the Real.Sense.Lab and directs the Bauhaus.Listening.Workshops as part of the Listening to the World project.
Andrei Popov is an international journalist and deputy director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest. After studying political science at the University of Bucharest, he worked for more than twenty years with the French Department of Radio Romania International (Romanian Broadcasting Corporation). As a journalist and producer specializing in social and cultural issues, radio features and documentaries, he collaborated with several important radio stations in the French-speaking world (RFI Service Mondial, Radio France, Deutsche Welle, etc.). He is the recipient of three international radio awards (International Union of Radio and Television – URTI, 2003, 2008, and Anna Lindh Foundation, 2011) and has received several other nominations and professional honors for his journalistic work. Between 2017 and 2019 he was press officer at the French Institute in Bucharest. Since 2019 he is the deputy director of the Austrian Cultural Forum (at the Austrian Embassy in Bucharest) and media officer of this cultural institution. He has co-authored the books “France Danse Orient-Express” (with Oana Cristea-Grigorescu, 2018, French Institute in Bucharest) and “Book of Visions for a #newTogether” (with Beate Winkler and Thomas Kloiber, 2023, Austrian Cultural Forum Bucharest).
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