AS EXPERIÊNCIAS RADIOFÔNICAS DE WALTER BENJAMIN NA REPÚBLICA DE WEIMAR (1929-1933)

Writings of Walter Benjamin for radio during the Weimar Republic (1929-1933) to children education are now available and reveal his Horspiele, Horsmodelle, Funkspiele, catastrophes narratives, etc. The author had no radio theory but was intending to give another function to radio as educator, exploring its esthetical and political potentialities. We are comparing the Benjamin’s view of the radio with the radio theory of Theodor W. Adorno, in the period that is remembered as ‘the radio days’. The differences are rather based in their different objects of analysis - the radio music and the oral narratives by the radio. Besides the radio experiments of Benjamin, his assertions about the cinema and photography are extremely important for esthetical evaluations of art and technology relationship. Index Terms - Benjamin radio experiments to children education, music in radio, Theodor W. Adorno radio theory, cultural industry, art and technology relationship.