Contact: info@datscharadio.de (Gabi Schaffner)
Press: presse@datscharadio.de (Helen Thein)

Team 2025

Datscha Radio at Oscillations Festival, Brussels – Open Circuits

Gabi Schaffner – Concept, editing, documentation, social media, moderation

Ernst Markus Stein – Concept, set-up, moderation, tech

Team 2024

Datscha Radio in Armenia – The Gardens of Gyumri

Gabi Schaffner – Concept, editing, documentation, moderation, tech

Annette Gloser – set-up, coordination, documentation

Marold Langer-Phillipsen – Streaming Controller

Teams 2023

Datscha Radio in Altenburg – Laubenlauschen

Gabi Schaffner – Concept, editing, documentation, moderation, tech

Helen Thein – Press, Social Media, Scripting, Coordination

Ernst Markus Stein – (Re)broadcastings, moderation, tech

Ernst Markus Stein studied at the Kunstakademie Münster (2004-2006) under Daniele Buetti and at the Universität der Künste Berlin under Lothar Baumgarten. Stein’s artistic works, drawings, posters, sound installations, performances and online presentations have been shown at Transmediale at HKW, Berlin (2019), in Plovdiv (European Capital of Culture 2019), at ZKM Karlsruhe (2017), at 1646 in The Hague (2014) and for WDR and ORF.
As DJ ShluchT and DIY Church, he has released LPs and tapes in collaboration with international labels and realises radio shows and workshops for cashmere radio, Radio 23 and the Seanaps Festival Leipzig, among others.

Marold Langer-Phillipsen – Streaming Controller. Thank you!

Harakka Island Radio – Insel Harakka, Helsinki

Gabi Schaffner

Kari Yli-Annala – Media artist, founder of the ‘Nomad Academy for Experimental Art’ on Harakka, and since 2009 organiser of the ‘Day of the Impossible’ (Sun Ra) event there with readings, lectures, exhibitions and concerts.

Rori Hallinvarju – Assistance, set-up and coordination

Team 2022

Datscha Radio Ii geschah auf Einladung zur Kunstbiennale in Ii, Finnland. Juni 2022.

Datscha Radio Kunstbiennale Ii – Air on Air

Gabi Schaffner – Konzept, Redaktion, Kuratierung, Dokumentation, Open Call, Technik

Tina-Marie Friedrich –
Reisende, Kopfrechnerin, Partnerin bei allgirls Berlin. Bei Air on Air: Assistenz, Kuratierung
Tina-Marie Friedrich studierte von 1987–1993 Bildende Kunst bei Anna Oppermann an der Hochschule der Künste, Berlin. Noch während des Studiums gründete sie zusammen mit Suzan Bayha und Tiger Stangl 1992 die Galerie allgirls in Berlin-Mitte.
2010 betrieb sie foxtrottberlin, eine Plattform für Stadtführungen mit dem Schwerpunkt ‚Kunst und Natur‘ in Berlin. Seit 2018 arbeitet sie als Dozentin von Malworkshops für Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene zum Beispiel bei der SBH-Nordost Berlin.

Marold-Langer Phillipsen – Streaming Controller. Datscha Radio bedankt sich ganz herzlich für die Nutzung des Airtime Servers!

Team 2020 Listening to the Universe

Gabi Schaffner – Festival organisation, blog, open call, artist presentation and own shows
– works as an interdisciplinary artist and curator in the field of radio art and visionary documentation. Productions for Deutschlandfunk Kultur in the fields of feature and sound art as well as for international radio art networks. She is co-founder and organizer of Datscha Radio since 2012, a passionate gardener, and doctoral candidate in the field of language and cultural studies

Kate Donovan – Curation, presentation, own shows and head of tech
– is a sound and radio artist/expert for experimental radio forms and literature, editor and presenter at Colaboradio and is writing her doctoral thesis on “Expanded Listening Beyond the Anthropocene”.

Helen Thein – Press, public relations, festival logistics
– is active as a cultural worker and as a freelance journalist. She is one of the founders of the fabrik Potsdam (1988). In 2016 she was the spokeswoman for Radio Revolten, the international Radio Art Festival in Halle, Saale.

Niki Matita – Coordination re-broadcasts, curation and presentation and own shows
– holds a diploma in Fine Arts and is active as a culture worker, curator, and producer and record entertainer. She is a qualified sound-designer and radio maker, as well as an international activist for free and community radio, women’s rights and equality.

Zazie Bullowich – Tontechnik
is an italian DJ, avant-turntablist, sound artist and curator.

Hans Kellett – Translations DE -> EN
Hans Kellett – based in Berlin since 2001 – is a translator, writer and poet. He was Poet in Residence for Datscha Radio in 2017.

Tiger Stangl – Graphic Design (printed matter)
Graphic designer, artist, partner at allgirls Berlin.

Tina-Marie Friedrich – Buchhaltung
Traveler, mental arithmetic, partner at allgirls Berlin.

Salome Bühler – Editorial assistant

Team 2019 Nachtgärtnern I – III

Gabi Schaffner, Kate Donovan, Niki Matita, Helen Thein

Team 2019 Datscha Radio Taiwan

Gabi Schaffner with Gabriele de Seta
A residency of the Treasure Hill Artist Village Taipei. Supported by the Goethe-Institut Taipei

Gabriele de Seta
Gabriele de Seta is a media anthropologist. His research work, grounded on ethnographic engagement across multiple sites, focuses on digital media practices and vernacular creativity in East Asian societies. More information is available on his website http://paranom.asia

Team 2018 Datscha Radio Madrid

Gabi Schaffner with Alberto Garcia, Eva Kurly, KTA Martin, Joaquin Diaz, Carolina Carubba (Radio Hortelana)

Tech: Jésus Jara, MediaLab Prado
Cooperation partner: InSonora. Maite Camacho

Team 2017 Plots and Prophecies, Berlin

Gabi Schaffner, Kate Donovan, Niki Matita, Helen Thein
with:

Suki Shanti Osman. Editor, moderation
(1983, Nottingham, UK; MA Music Education, Institute of Education, AHRC Studentship 2013) is a Berlin-based musician, researcher and educator. In her workshops she employs singing, performance and sound art, and radio to consider the themes: identities and privilege, cultural commodification and appropriation, feminisms, (post)colonial criticisms and activism. Recent solo projects include the autobiographical listening and singing performance Skewed (English Theater Berlin, April 2017). Shanti Suki received the District Studio Grant for July – December 2017 and will be focussing on her radio and education work.

Verena Kuni. Editor
Scholar in the field of history and theory of art and media cultures and professor for Visual Culture in Frankfurt(M), is specialized in interdisciplinary projects and programs at the intersections of theory and practice. Focussing a.o. on transfers between material and media cultures; media of imagination and technologies of transformation; DIY; urban biotopes and (in)visible gardens; alternate realities and beyond. Since 1997, she runs her own art radio shows; since 2008 she is an active member of international art radio network radia.fm. www.under-construction.cc – www.gunst.info

Tech 2017

Zazie Bullowich. Sound Engineer
is an italian DJ, avant-turntablist, sound artist and curator.

Matt Burnett. Sound Engineer
is interested in sound creation via self-oscillating systems, and the development of a vocabulary of motion within a quadraphonic listening environment.

Udo Noll. Streaming support
Udo Noll is a media artist and founder and developer of radio aporee, a platform for projects and practice in the areas of field recording / phonography, sound art and experimental radio.

Seamus O’Donnell. (kNiFeLoOp) Tech & streaming
Seamus O’Donnell works on different sound art projects since 1999.
Since 2002 he has been a keen participant of different local radio projects in Berlin and is currently one of the organisers of Colaboradio on 88.4FM.

Graphic Design (Print)

Susann Richter
Born in Dresden, diplomas in Cultural Studies in East Germany and Visual Communication at HfBK Hamburg. Since 1997 active as a freelance graphic designer, photographer and lecturer.

Realisation Datscha Radio 2014

Gabi Schaffner, Pit Schultz, Gärtnerpflichten Gießen

Realisation Datscha Radio 2012

Gabi Schaffner mit Pit Schultz und Verena Kuni

Cooperation partner

Diana McCarty / reboot.fm (Free Artist Radio Berlin)

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