Studio for Electronic Music (WDR)
The Studio for Electronic Music of the West German Radio was a facility of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in Cologne. It was the first of its kind in the world, and its history reflects the development of electronic music in the second half of the twentieth century.
Karlheinz Stockhausen in the WDR Electronic Music Studio in 1991
WDR Broadcasting Centre, Wallrafplatz, Cologne: home of the studio from 1952 to 1986
An EMS Synthi 100
Lawo PTR mixing console, obtained for the studio in the early 1990s, now in the Ossendorf museum maintained by Volker Müller
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, shortened to WDR, is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. As well as contributing to the output of the national television channel Das Erste, WDR produces the regional television service WDR Fernsehen and six regional radio networks.
One of WDR's buildings in Cologne
Hallo Ü-Wagen with Carmen Thomas in 1982