© WDR/Timo Grau
© WDR/Timo Grau
© WDR/Bernd-Michael MaurerWDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln) translated means West German Broadcasting Cologne.
The radio and television production studio tour gives you the chance to take a look inside the heart of WDR in Cologne. Get a taste of studio life where programs such as “Sportschau”, “Hart aber fair” or “Hier und Heute” are produced. The guide will explain how the studio technology works, how the editorial teams work and what extensive preparations are required for the production of a program. You will also take a look at the television control room and the virtual studio.
In the second part of the tour, you will experience the flair of the 1950s in the broadcasting centre and learn interesting and curious facts about the history of Westdeutscher Rundfunk. Take a look in the large broadcasting hall and the radio play studio.
Important notes
The WDR requires a list of participants with first and last name. If you book this event, you agree that we pass this data on to WDR.
You accept that this ticket is non-transferable as of October 1
st since we then pass on the personal information - and everybody must book it individually due to the need to send your personal data.
Directions (from IBD Hotel)
Travel time is about 95 minutes
... including some potential waiting time for the trains you will take and the time locally in Cologne.
- If you're on the ground floor where the hotel’s reception is take the stairs or elevator up to first floor, the conference level
- On the first floor of Maritim Hotel - with IBD meeting room, organisation office, board game room, etc. - head for the large hall
- At the end of that hall between the two bars (Galeriebar and Morley’s Bar) is the exit to the elevated footpath towards Düsseldorf Airport – go for it
- After taking the footbridge follow the signs for "Departures" and once entering the airport building turn right
- Follow the signs to SkyTrain and "Flughafen Bahnhof/Airport station"
- Take elevators or escalators up to the SkyTrain station
The SkyTrain is free of charge, runs every 5 minutes and takes 7 minutes to the final stop "Flughafen Bahnhof/Airport station" - Get off and head for the railway station "Düsseldorf Flughafen"
- Take the regional train RE1 or RE5 to Cologne central in station "Köln Hauptbahnhof"
Note that the aforementioned regional trains pass through the Düsseldorf central station "Düsseldorf Hauptbahnhof"
Directions (from Köln Hauptbahnhof)
Travel time is some 15 minutes
- Leave Cologne central station using the exit to "Bahnhofsvorplatz" (on the side with platform 1)
- Go to towards and halfway around the Cologne Cathedral - anticlockwise, keep the cathedral to your left, you will pass by the main entrance.
- With the main entrance in your back, use the pedestrian street between "4711" to your left and "Domforum" to your right
- Cross the small open space "Wallraffplatz" and turn right into "An der Rechtschule"
- You reach the destination that is on the right-hand side after 110m
Hint: You want to visit several events in Cologne so that you have to spend a bit over an hour to get to Cologne only once.
See
Directions and Times for general information on directions.
directions from the station to the event
