ABSTRACT
In 1920s, the city was world-renowned as a site of cultural creativity spawned by an influx of foreign artists and intellectuals. During the Nazi reign, Hitler and other leaders despised Berlin's cosmopolitanism. Public space cosmopolitanism would draw attention to, and increase awareness of, everyday forms of cultural multiplicity. This represents a rather different agenda than much current media multiculturalism, which can often be read as a patronizing form of ethnic exceptionalism. Radio Multikulti was established as an experiment based on certain innovations in the media treatment of multiculturalism. Radio Multikulti inherited the sender Freies Berlin (SFB) programme established in the 1960s for Yugoslav 'guestworkers' that was originally broadcast in Serbo-Croatian; now, reflecting the breakup of Yugoslavia, Radio Multikulti produces separate programmes for Serbs, Croats, Slovenians, Bosnians and Macedonians. Cosmopolitanism as a political project of transnational institutions is supported by Radio Multikulti's abundant reporting of political frameworks such as dual citizenship and institutions such as the European Union.
