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No other figure has shaped the Swiss radio and television scene as much as Roger Schawinski in the past 50 years. And no one is more consistent in ensuring that this is not forgotten than himself.
“I never thought it was special.” When Roger Schawinski says that, one is tempted to think he is flirtatious. Because to be considered average, he simply dared too much and earned too much in his life.
“DOK” gets to the bottom of the origins of Schawinski’s career and meets a person who fights for what he believes in and who, at 74, still awaits the next great euphoria in his life.
“DOK” accompanies Roger Schawinski on a journey to the place where it all started: Pizzo Groppera in northern Italy. Where the huge antenna of the early days of Radio 24 still stands today. Along the way there is time to review the past and think about the future.
The audience learns how Roger Schawinski decided from the beginning never to be small in his life, how he fell in love with a Puerto Rican in the United States, married too young and divorced again, how he married one of his great loved ones in Accompanying death and how he hopes to die with a smile in the future.
The origins are modest: lower middle class, small apartment, with no money for extravagances. But Schawinski soon freed himself from the petty-bourgeois environment in the fourth district of Zurich: he studied at the University of St. Gallen, a doctor of economics, a reporter in Rundschau, the invention of “Kassensturz”, editor-in-chief of “Tat”.
And then the event that made him a pioneer in the Swiss media: the founding of Radio 24. But where others would have been resting for a long time, Schawinski continued: he founded TeleZüri and Tele24, became head of the German private broadcaster Sat.1 and started 63 years again, and finally returns to Swiss television.
The greatest constant in all this: Schawinski polarizes. He voluntarily engages with the authorities, talks to guests and colleagues. And now his television career is over. “We are all going towards our insignificance,” says Roger Schawinski in the film, but he cannot imagine that he simply accepts it.
DOK
Thu 30.04. 20:05 – 21:05 | SRF 1
CH 2020 | 60 min
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