© 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.
- Take the foot bridge in front of Maritim Hotel towards the airport terminal C
- Take the Sky Train in the Airport from "Düsseldorf Flughafen Terminal C" to "Düsseldorf Flughafen Bahnhof" (the railway station)
- Walk to the railway train 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)
- The Cologne Cathedral is slightly to the left
- Walk away from the central station keeping slightly left into the "Trankgasse"
- After 90m turn left into "Kardinal-Hoffmann-Platz"
- Continue for some 150 despite the name of the street changing to "Unter Fettenhennen" and then to "Wallraffplatz"
- 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.
