In the audio archive, you will find all the programmes recorded by Freies Radio Innsbruck (Freirad) in and around the City Archives/City Museum – recordings about the archives’ treasures, aspects of the city’s history and much more.
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2026
2025
- Visiting a little-known archive in Innsbruck (11 September)
- What was Albert Einstein doing at Innsbruck railway station in 1924? (6 August)
- July Putsch 1934: Who shot Franz Hickl? (11 July)
- Anniversary "100 years of Innsbruck Airport" (2 June)
- desertion - a commemorative mission (20 May)
- Leokadia Justman: Let's break out! (22 April)
- 300 years of St Jakob's Cathedral in Innsbruck - The provost and the plaque on the south tower (14 March)
- 300 years of St. Jacob's Cathedral in Innsbruck and the Habsburgs/Miracle Books (14 February)
- 300 years of Innsbruck's St. Jakob Cathedral (10 January)
2024
- Learning humility: childhood in Catholic children's homes in Tyrol after 1945 (13 December)
- Fatti di Innsbruck: An Innsbruck scandal goes around the world in 1904 (8 November)
- 300 years of Innsbruck Cathedral: Who was Karl Koch? (11 October)
- Balloonists and motorised pilots in Tyrol during the First World War (13 September)
- Voluntary emasculation? (9 August)
- What remains of Innsbruck art? (12 July)
- 150th anniversary of the Mühlau volunteer fire brigade (14 June)
- Innsbruck word monuments: What does jam have to do with National Socialism? (10 May)
- The Innsbruck municipal elections - a historical perspective (12 April)
- Josef Schwammberger: Sadistic Nazi Executioner (7 March)
- Points in time instead of stumbling blocks in Innsbruck (9 February)
- When time stands still in Innsbruck... (10 January)
2023
2022
- With full commitment! 165 years of Innsbruck fire brigade history (23 September)
- The Gutenberg celebration in 1900 (16 August)
- The miracle reports of the place of grace Mariahilf (11 July)
- Pausenzeichen - a sound installation on 4 places of Nazi terror in Innsbruck (13 June)
- Exhibition: The Mariahilfkirche in the City Archive/City Museum Innsbruck (16 May)
- Café Schindler - a conversation with the author Meriel Schindler (12 April)
- History of the drinking water supply in Innsbruck (11 March)
- The address books of the city of Innsbruck (14 February)
- the Perlaggen - an old Tyrolean card game (17 January)
2021
- The Tyrolean Books of Honour (13 December)
- Innsbruck's aviation pioneers (8 October)
- Local stories (13 September)
- The royal game - chess history in Innsbruck (20 August)
- The zither - an underestimated instrument (9 July)
- "A memorial plaque for Diana Budisavljevic" (14 June)
- More than bread! The First Tyrolean Workers' Bakery ETAB (17 May)
- Wilfried Kirschl's light spaces - a cross-section of his artistic work (12 April)
- Innsbruck remembers - picture blog invites you on a journey of discovery (15 March)
- Treasures and curiosities of the Innsbruck City Archives - a tour of the depot (11 January)
2020
- The unknown photographer (14 December)
- The laborious restitution in the case of Julius Meisel (16 November)
- The trial against Gestapo chief Werner Hilliges (12 October)
- Post-war period in Innsbruck (11 September)
- A monastery-free Innsbruck? (14 August)
- The central cemetery in Innsbruck during the Nazi era (10 July)
- The incorporation of Innsbruck during the Nazi era (12 June)
- Innsbruck's schools under National Socialism (15 May)
- Archive and museum work in times of Corona (10 April)
- A red labour experiment in the black Tyrol (13 March)
- The peasant regiment of Andreas Hofer (14 February)
- Not just a school building. The grammar school in Sillgasse (10 January)