Registration session of Radio Ladin de Gherdëina
Alex Moroder relating on the financial situation of the Union di Ladins de Gherdëina in 1982[1]

Alex Moroder (Ortisei, 13 May 1923 – Ortisei, 11 November 2006) was an Italian activist.

Biography

He was the son of sculptor Ludwig Moroder and Adele Moroder. In 1939 he was enrolled in the Italian army with the Alpini fighting Germany. In September 1943 he was deported in the labour camp of Pomerania and at a later time, he was moved to Carinthia, where he worked in an infirmary and as an interpreter.

In 1945 he married Paola Grossrubatscher and had five children: Ulrike, Wolfgang, Egon, Ruth e Stefan.[2] He died in 2006 due to the post effects of hepatitis he contracted in the labour camps.

Ladinian investment

Alex Moroder advocated for the conservation and diffusion of the culture and of the language native to the Ladin people, he actively founded and worked in these associacions:

He was also part of these other cultural associacions:

Written productions

Radio Ladin

Alongside Bruno Moroder in 1955 he founded Radio Ladin de Gherdëina, with the purpose of creating cultural and news-oriented transmissions in the Ladin language that were also transmitted on RAI.[5] The Museum Gherdëina owns over 500 magnetic coils registered by Alex Moroder and his associates during their activities, they were awarded the status of documental patrimony of Alto Adige and named Archivio Radio Ladin Alex Moroder it has now been digitalized and is accessible by the Mediateca of the Autonomous province of Bolzan.[1]

Honoreficences

References

  1. ^ a b [dead link]
  2. ^ "Autobiografia di Alex Moroder manoscritto (ladino)". Archived from the original on 2009-10-26. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  3. ^ "Intervista sul fascismo, nazismo e sui fatti della guerra tradotta in italiano" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-29. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  4. ^ Die Moroder, ein altladinisches Geschlecht aus Gröden-Dolomiten vom 14. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Ein Beitrag zur tirolischen Familienforschung, St. Ulrich in Gröden: Komitee für die Drucklegung des Moroder-Stammbuches, 1980. (tedesco, italiano, ladino e spagnolo)
  5. ^ Alessandra Zendron: RAI Bolzano. Dalla stazione EIAR alla radiotelevisione trilingue. Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma 2006, ISBN 88-397-1395-6 pagine 94, 113, 114, 137, 138, 139.
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