Rainer Cabanis

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Rainer Michael Cabanis (born April 24, 1946 in Rostock ; † June 22, 2009 ) was a German journalist , radio presenter and radio manager . He is considered one of the pioneers of private radio in Germany.

Life

Rainer Cabanis graduated from high school in West Berlin in 1967 and then began studying German and law at the University of Marburg . From 1968 he completed a traineeship at the Berliner Morgenpost , where he became a feature editor in 1970 . In the same year he went to Frankfurt am Main , where he worked as head of entertainment for the then tabloid, Abendpost / Nachtausgabe . From 1972 he worked as a Rhein-Main correspondent for the Bild newspaper and Bild am Sonntag . From 1974 to 1976 Cabanis wrote for the television magazine Funk Uhr before switching to radio .

From 1976 he worked as a music editor at Europawelle Saar and, for a short time, in the newsroom of Radio Luxemburg . In 1979 he became head of music and moderator at SWF3 in Baden-Baden and deputy head of the popular music division of Südwestfunk . In 1986 he left the SWF and was in Hamburg founding program director at one of the first private radio in Germany, Radio Hamburg , which he led in the first year to profitability and as a leading hamburger in the next decade radio station established. In 1996 he switched to the private radio broadcaster Radio ffn in Isernhagen and from 1997 to Hanover , where he worked as program director until 2004.

Cabanis has worked as a communications and media consultant since 2004. He volunteered, among other things, as Vice President of the General Hamburg Press Club and, since 2007, as Chairman of the Board of the Hamburg Academy for Journalism . Cabanis was considered an experienced journalist and proven media expert; He has been invited as a speaker to numerous specialist conferences and media events and has been a guest lecturer at various universities, including in Hamburg, Hanover, Osnabrück, Karlsruhe, Mittweida and Stralsund. He was a member of the jury of several media awards , such as the Axel Springer Prize for Young Journalists in 2006 and the LFK Media Awards in 2005 and 2007.

Rainer Cabanis was married and had three children. He died surprisingly at the age of 63.

Quotes

In the accompanying online news for the Medientage Munich 2007 , at which Cabanis appeared as one of the keynote speakers , he made the following statements about the future of radio :

  • “The future of radio will lie in its past. This refers to the general, original strengths of this mass medium: the human and irreplaceable individual approach with a strong emotional bond that can ideally be built between moderator and listener, as well as the close proximity of the mostly regional, often even local medium his audience. "
  • "Because radio without music is like television without a picture."

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Private radio pioneer Rainer Cabanis has died , report from the media service Kress.de from June 29, 2009 (last accessed : June 29, 2009).
  2. ↑ a b Private radio pioneer Rainer M. Cabanis is dead ( memento from July 7th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), dpa report on KN-Online from June 28th, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b Private radio pioneer Rainer Cabanis is dead ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Article on the online media service Meedia.de from June 27, 2009 (last accessed: June 29, 2009). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / meedia.de
  4. ^ Rainer Cabanis, a member of the Radio Hamburg "Triole" , obituary by Wilfried Sorge / Thomas Walde in the Hamburger Abendblatt from June 29, 2009 (last accessed: June 29, 2009).
  5. ↑ Radio First: Programming and Branding in the Age of Convergence ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Program information in the online news for the Medientage München 2007 from October 8, 2007, p. 3 ( PDF file; 310 kB; last accessed: June 29, 2009). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.medientage-muenchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Cabanis, Rainer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cabanis, Rainer Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, radio presenter and manager
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH June 22, 2009