Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow

The Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" (TV Station Paul Nipkow) in Berlin, Germany, was the first public television station in the world.[1][2] Carrying programming from Deutscher Fernseh-Rundfunk, it was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944. The station was named after Paul Gottlieb Nipkow, the inventor of the Nipkow disk.[3]

Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow"
TypeTelevision station
Country
Nazi Germany
AvailabilityNational
OwnerDeutsche Reichspost
Ministry of Aviation
Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda
Key people
Carl Boese
Hans-Jürgen Nierentz
Herbert Engler
Launch date
18 April 1934
Dissolved19 October 1944
Replaced byNordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (television broadcasts from 1950), Deutscher Fernsehfunk (launched in 1952), Telewizja Polska (launched in 1952, serve former parts of Germany), Soviet Central Television (for Kalinigrad region)

History

Parallel to the experiments by John Logie Baird in the United Kingdom, by Herbert E. Ives and Charles Francis Jenkins in the United States, as well as by Kenjiro Takayanagi in Japan, television pioneers like Dénes Mihály and Manfred von Ardenne had organised experimental television transmissions in Berlin since 1928. In the same year, Telefunken presented a television set prototype during the Internationale Funkausstellung industrial exhibition. From 1929 television test programs were regularly aired from the Funkturm Berlin transmitter (Rundfunksender Witzleben). The first public transmission was introduced in the Kroll Opera House on 18 April 1934.

The station was receivable only in and around Berlin but became very popular when it covered the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.[1] About 160,000 viewers saw the Olympic games on a few private televisions and in many public television parlours. Television was used more for mainstream entertainment rather than propaganda, as Joseph Goebbels preferred radio as a mass-medium. The heavy and slow equipment made it difficult to report, and almost all programming was broadcast live. From 1942 to 1944, the Germans also restarted a TV station in Paris to broadcast programs in German and French. In 1944, the station was shut down, as were most other cultural events, as a consequence of the approach of the Allied Armies in the Normandy Campaign.

After the collapse of East Germany in 1990, about 280 rolls of 35mm film were discovered of Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow programs. In recent years, much of that material has been aired on German and international channels, mostly by The History Channel. In Germany, the rediscovered footage has been first used in the 1996 documentary Televisionen im Dritten Reich ("Tele-Visions in the Third Reich") made by WDR and NDR, as well as in Michael Kloft's 1999 documentary Das Fernsehen unter dem Hakenkreuz ("Television Under the Swastika").

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See also

References
  1. "22.3.1935: Erstes Fernsehprogramm der Welt". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. "Es begann in der Fernsehstube: TV wird 80 Jahre alt". Computer Bild. 22 March 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  3. "Das erste deutsche Fernsehpatent von Paul Nipkow". PC Magazin. 30 June 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2017.



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