Francesco Tornabene

Francesco Tornabene (born June 19, 1958 in Enna , Sicily ) is a radio journalist and author of Italian origin. He lives and works in Cologne .

Life

Francesco Tornabene studied journalism from 1979 to 1986 at the University of Dortmund. From 1982 to 1983 he completed an internship at Westdeutscher Rundfunk in Cologne with a focus on the television entertainment and music program group. There he was involved in the conception of new entertainment formats (“So Isses”, “Showstart”) and worked on some of the episodes of Rudi's Tagesshow . His diploma thesis “Buccaneers of sensations - danger is their business. The stereotype of the journalist in contemporary western feature films ”he wrote together with Tilmann P. Gangloff .

Since 1984 Tornabene has mainly worked as a film critic, initially for the press and since 1986 as a freelance radio journalist. With his radio play-like reviews in WDR programs like Flippzeit and Riff , he gave film critics a new audio design in the 1980s. From 2002 to 2004 and 2009 he was a member of the jury of the “German Film Music Prize”, which is awarded by the “ Association of German Film Critics ” (affiliated to the Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique ).

Tornabene produces articles for various editorial offices at Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, as well as for Deutschlandradio , Radio Bremen and Rundfunk Berlin Brandenburg .

Radio broadcasts (selection)

• The track leads nowhere (radio play) Director and producer, authors: Francesco Tornabene, Andreas Hauffe, Christian Ingomar, Querfunk, January 2003
• Batman turns 65 , Feature, Curiosity is enough, WDR 5, May 2004
• Nazis in Hollywood Films , Feature, Radio Bremen, January 2005, Authors: Francesco Tornabene and Uwe Mies
• All that Jazz , two-hour broadcast about film music in the “Jazzpoint”, WDR 5, September 2006, authors: Francesco Tornabene and Jörg Gerle

bibliography

• " Federico Fellini , Realist of the Fantastic", Francesco Tornabene, Benedikt Taschen Verlag Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-89450-084-0
• The images in our heads - How stereotypes arise and shape everyday television life , in: Love, Death and Lotto Numbers, Television in Germany , editors: Tilmann P. Gangloff , Stephan Abarbanell, GEP book at JF Steinkopf Verlag Hamburg Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3- 7984-1027-5
• Espresso italiano in: 40 years of guest workers , editors: Karl-Heinz Meier-Braun, Martin A. Kilgus, Wolfgang Niess, Stauffenburg Verlag Tübingen 1998, ISBN 3-86057-037-4

Other projects

• Sound design for a cartoon exhibition by Peter Gaymann in the Wilhelm-Busch-Museum , Hannover 2002
• Sound design for the play Warlords by Kristóf Szabó , Cologne 2008

Web links

• Literature by and about Francesco Tornabene in the catalog of the German National Library
• "Nazis in Hollywood Films" - Radio Bremen (audio file)
• SüperDVD - DVD meetings for Funkhaus Europa with audio files
• "All that Jazz" - WDR5, music schedule for the broadcast ( Memento from September 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
• Association of German Film Critics eV