Post-migrant voices at times of hyper-visibility 133 al running. Without funding, it will be difficult to continue (Berg, 2021). As a result, independent podcasts often have relatively short lifespans. 3. The example of the German podcast “Kanackische Welle” I have chosen a podcast that has proved to be influential in the public sphere insofar as it has gained mainstream media attention and some awards. The podcast, named “Kanackische Welle”, started in 2018 and was recorded twice a month as produced independently. As of May 2021, the hosts have entered into a partnership with “Funk”, a media content platform run by the German public-service broadcaster ARD and ZDF, which supports media productions that target a younger audience (aged between 14 and 29). Although independent production in the beginning, the producers decided to accept the publicservice broadcaster’s offer to make continuous production af- fordable. Before the partnership, the episodes appeared more irregularly. Up until February 2021, 39 episodes were produced lasting about 1.5 hours each. Since then, together with “Funk”, 21 new episodes have been published. The last episode is from December 30th, 2021. There is no goodbye episode, as before; rather, it is only mentioned that the episode in December is the last of the season. While it was indicated in this last episode that they would take a short break before continuing, no episode was published in 2022. Neither of the producers have agreed to be interviewed, so it is unclear why production abruptly ended. The name of this podcast is controversial. As the producers say: “The word ‘Kanake’ originally had a negative conno- tation, but we are trying to reinterpret it. Because there are a lot of positive properties that go hand in hand with it” (Abendzeitung München 14.1020). The made-up word “Kanackische” is an adjective based on the substantive “Kanake”, that is, wog, mean- ing “wog’s broadcasting”. To mark the reinterpretation, they have chosen to spell the negatively connoted word “Kanake” as “Kanacke”, which does not change the pronunciation. They ad- vertise their product as follows:
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