Torsten Körner
Torsten Körner (born September 21, 1965 in Oldenburg ) is a German television critic , journalist , documentary filmmaker and author .
Live and act
Torsten Körner studied German and theater studies and wrote a film history dissertation on Heinz Rühmann in Berlin . Since 1998 he has been writing as a freelance television critic for the trade journals Funkkorrespondenz and epd medien , as well as columnist for daily newspapers such as the Berliner Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel . Körner was a juror for the Grimme Prize in 2014 and 2015 . He is the author of several non-fiction books as well as biographies on Heinz Rühmann, Götz George , Franz Beckenbauer and Willy Brandt . In 2009 he received the Bert Donnepp Prize of the Grimme Institute for his television reviews .
Körner has three children, is married and lives in Berlin.
Movies
- 2016: Angela Merkel - The Unexpected (book, director), documentary, 90 minutes
- 2017: 3 days in September (script, direction), documentation, 52 minutes
- 2019: Palace of the Ghosts (script, director), documentary, 90 minutes
- 2020: The Unyielding (book, director), documentary, 99 minutes
Fonts (selection)
- 2000: The history of the Third Reich told by Torsten Körner. Image design by Silke Henßel. Youth non-fiction book, Campus, Frankfurt / M., ISBN 3-593-36274-0 ; 3rd edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-593-38539-6 .
- 2001: The little man as a star: Heinz Rühmann and his films from the 50s. Doctoral thesis at Humboldt University Berlin. With a foreword by Reinhard Baumgart . Campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York, ISBN 3-593-36754-8 .
- 2001: A good friend: Heinz Rühmann. Biography. Structure, Berlin, ISBN 3-7466-1925-4 .
- 2003: Schiller for those in a hurry.
- 2005: Franz Beckenbauer: The free man. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M.
- 2006: as audio book : Speaker: Johannes Steck. Director: Lutz Magnus Schäfer, 4 CDs, audio book, Freiburg im Breisgau, ISBN 978-3-89964-173-8 .
- 2006: as editor: I was once Pele too. Celebrities and their dream of football. Structure, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-7466-7051-5 .
- 2008: Götz George: Playing with life.
- 2008: Schiller for school: summaries and reading aids of the most important works.
- 2010: stories from the dining car. Out and about in Germany. Scherz, Frankfurt / M.
- 2011: Test lying: stories of death , joke, Frankfurt / M.
- 2013: The Willy Brandt family. S. Fischer, Frankfurt / M., ISBN 978-3-10-040407-7 .
- 2015: Out of the window. A Friedenau seasonal diary. Elektrischer Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-943889-69-7 .
- 2020: In the men's republic: How women conquered politics. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, ISBN 978-3-462-05333-3 (on politicians of all parties who prevailed in the Bundestag during the Bonn Republic).
Web links
- Literature by and about Torsten Körner in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Torsten Körner at perlentaucher.de
- Torsten grains in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Torsten Körner at Fischerverlage
- Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse from January 13, 2019: Of walls and people
- Deutschlandfunk essay and discourse from December 1, 2019: The age of the clowns
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jury 2014 - Grimme Prize. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Jury 2015 - Grimme Prize. Retrieved April 2, 2020 .
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: "What should we do with a woman in the cabinet?" Retrieved April 1, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Körner, Torsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German television critic, journalist, documentary filmmaker and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oldenburg |