Editing Radio drama (section)

=== Germany ===
The first German radio drama was produced in 1923. Because of the external circumstances in postwar Germany in which most of the theatres were destroyed,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Heinrich |first=Anselm |date=2023-06-12 |title=Theatre as Weapon of War: German Language Theatres Across Occupied Europe During WWII |url=https://www.critical-stages.org/27/theatre-as-weapon-of-war-german-language-theatres-across-occupied-europe-during-wwii/ |access-date=2024-07-17 |website=Critical Stages/Scènes critiques |language=en-US}}</ref> radio drama boomed. Between 1945 and 1960 there were more than 500 radio plays every year. The German word for radio drama or audio play is {{lang|de|Hörspiel}}. Today Germany is a major market for radio plays worldwide.<ref>Torsten Wissmann, ''Geographies of Urban Sound'', 2016, Routledge (publisher; in the year 2014 published by Ashgate Publishing), p. 204. Cite: "Germany is the most important market for audio plays"</ref> In particular, audio plays on CD are very popular. A popular audio play serial of Germany and of the world is ''{{ill|Die drei ???|de|Die drei ??? (Hörspiel)}} (''[[Three Investigators]]'').

Berlin's [[Prix Europa]] includes a Radio Fiction category.{{Citation needed|date=March 2019}}