For dates on which a broadcast is known to have taken place but for which the precise title or content is not known, the relevant, if incomplete, information is given in brackets under the title column. These dates should be read in tandem with Table 2, which gives broadcast texts for which the precise date of broadcast is not known.
Table 3 provides information about radio texts that were planned or completed by Benjamin but were never aired, as well as about broadcasts that might have taken place but for which there is no further information.
Table 1: Chronological list of broadcast dates
Date
Station
Title
Programming Category / Broadcast Type
Reference
1.
3/23/1927
Frankfurt
“
Junge russische Dichter” [Young Russian Writers]
Talk
Lost or missing. See related text, “Neue Dichtung in Russland,” GS, 2.2, 755–62.
2.
8/14/1929
Frankfurt
“Die Romane von Julien Green” [The Novels of Julien Green]
Talk on the book-hour
Lost or missing. See related text, “Julien Green,” GS, 2.1, 328–34. Translated in SW, 2, 331–6.
3.
8/15/1929
Frankfurt
“Children’s Literature”
Talk
In this volume.
4.
8/20/1929
Frankfurt
“Reading of Works by Robert
Walser”
Reading
Lost or missing.
1
5.
9/4/1929
Frankfurt
“Vorlesung aus eigenen Werken” [Readings from My Own Work]
Reading
Lost or missing.
6.
10/29/1929
Frankfurt
“Johann Peter Hebel”
Talk on the book-hour
GS, 2.2, 636–40.
7.
10/31/1929
Frankfurt
“Gides Berufung” [Gide’s Vocation]
Talk
GS, 2.1, 257–69.
8.
11/9/1929
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
9.
11/23/1929
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
10.
11/30/1929
Berlin
[In a series entitled “Tales and Adventures”; title unknown]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
11.
12/7/1929
Berlin
“Berlin Puppet Theater”
Youth radio
In this volume.
12.
12/14/1929
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
13.
12/15/1929
Frankfurt
“Bücher von Thornton Wilder und Ernest Hemingway” [Books by Thornton Wilder and Ernest Hemingway]
Talk on the book-hour
GS, 7.1, 270–1.
14.
12/16/1929
Frankfurt
“Sketched in Mobile Dust”
Reading
In this volume.
15.
1/4/1930
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
16.
1/23/1930
Frankfurt
“Pariser Köpfe” [Parisian Minds]
Talk
GS, 7.1, 279–86.
17.
1/24/1930
Frankfurt
“Friedrich Sieburgs Versuch ‘Gott in Frankreich?’ ” [Friedrich Sieburg’s Essay “God in France?”]
Talk on the book-hour
GS, 7.1, 286–94.
18.
2/1/1930
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
19.
2/8/1930
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
20.
2/15/1930
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
21.
2/25/1930
Berlin
“Demonic Berlin”
Youth radio
In this volume.
22.
3/7/1930
Berlin
“Berlin Guttersnipe”
Youth radio
In this volume.
23.
3/15/1930
Berlin
“Berlin Toy Tour I”
Youth radio
In this volume.
24.
3/22/1930
Berlin
“Berlin Toy Tour II”
Youth radio
In this volume.
25.
3/26/1930
Frankfurt
“E. T. A. Hoffmann and Oskar Panizza”
Talk
In this volume.
26.
3/28/1930
Frankfurt
“Reuters
Schelmuffsky
und Kortums
Jobsiade
[Reuter’s
Scheimuffsky
and Kortum’s
Jobsiade
]
Talk on the book-hour
GS, 2.2, 648–60.
27.
3/29/1930
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
2
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
28.
4/5/1930
Berlin
“Borsig”
Youth radio
In this volume.
29.
4/12/1930
Berlin
[On a Berlin-related theme; title unknown]
3
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
30.
4/14/1930
Berlin
“Theodor Hosemann”
Youth radio
In this volume.
31.
5/9/1930
Frankfurt
“Prescriptions for Comedy Writers: A Conversation between Wilhelm Speyer and Walter Benjamin”
Dialogue
In this volume.
32.
5/11/1930
Frankfurt
“ ‘Die Angstellten — Aus dem neuesten Deutschland’ von S. Kracauer” [“White-Collar Workers: The Latest from Germany,” by S. Kracauer]
Talk on the book-hour
Lost or missing. See related text, “Ein Aussentseiter Macht sich Bemerkbar, Zu S. Kracauer. ‘Die Angestellten,’ ” GS, 3, 219–25. Translated as “An Outsider Makes His Mark,” SW, 2, 305–11.
33.
5/24/1930
Berlin
“Besuch im Kupferwerk” [Visit to the Copper Works]
Youth radio
Lost or missing.
34.
6/22/1930
Berlin
Erzählung der Woche [Story of the Week]
Reading
Lost or missing.
35.
6/23/1930
Frankfurt
“Neues um Stefan George” [Something New About Stefan George]
Talk
Lost or missing. See related text, “Wider ein Meisterwerk: Zu Max Kommerell, ‘Der Dichter als Führer in der deutschen Klassik,’ ” GS, 3, 252–9. Translated as “Against a Masterpiece,” SW, 2, 378–85.
36.
6/24/1930
Frankfurt
“Bert Brecht”
Talk
GS, 2.2, 660–7. Translated in SW, 2, 365–71.