Ted: Cologne’s district Ehrenfeld is undertaking an experiment. Recently, for the first time, the Muslim call to prayer rang out, or “ist […] erklungen”, outside the local mosque. The muezzin, or the person who proclaims the call to prayer, sang, surrounded by onlookers, “umringt von Schaulustigen”. The loudspeakers were lowered from the minarets to the mosque door, and the volume was also limited. These are the restrictions of a two-year trial, or “Probebetriebs”, initiated by Cologne’s mayor Henriette Reker that will allow the call to prayer to become a part of the soundscape of Cologne, “[des] Klangbild[s] Kölns”, at least temporarily. We’ll hear from two onlookers who allude to the backlash against the initiative, but put up firm resistance against it: the bells of the Cologne Cathedral and other churches are a lot louder, so the volume argument doesn’t hold. They’re hopeful, or “zuversichtlich”, that there won’t be any problems in the neighborhood.