Matthias Fornoff
{{short description|German television journalist}}
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Matthias Fornoff (born 28 August 1963, in Mainz) is a German television journalist.
Early life and career
Fornoff studied history, Slavic studies and politics at the University of Mainz, and received a master's degree from the Free University of Berlin.
Fornoff has worked for the German broadcaster ZDF since 1992. In 1997, he received a Telestar award for his reporting on the 1997 Central European flood. He later served as ZDF's Washington, D.C. correspondent from 2007 to 2010.{{Cite web|url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/gesellschaft/medien/mit-182-meter-passe-ich-perfekt-7057846.html|title=Matthias Fornhoff, "heute"-Moderator: "Mit 1,82 Meter passe ich perfekt"|work=Der Tagesspiegel Online |via=Tagesspiegel}} Beginning in 2010, Fornoff served alongside Petra Gerster as a moderator of the German news show heute..[https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/auch-gute-nachrichten-sind-nachrichten.761.de.html?dram:article_id=114373 Deutschlandfunkd.de: Auch gute Nachrichten sind Nachrichten] In 2014, he became the head of ZDF's editorial department concerning politics and current affairs, also serving as a supervisor for election polling.{{Cite web|url=https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/tv/matthias-fornoff-verlaesst-heute-a-950873.html|title=Matthias Fornoff verlässt "heute"|work=Der Spiegel |date=3 February 2014|via=www.spiegel.de}} Fornoff also currently serves as a presenter on the ZDF show Politbarometer.
Personal life
Fornoff is married and has two children.{{Cite web|url=https://presseportal.zdf.de/biografien/uebersicht|title=Biografie|website=ZDF Presseportal}}
Awards
- 1997: Telestar – for reporting on the 1997 Central European flood
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Category:German male journalists
Category:German broadcast news analysts
Category:Mass media people from Mainz
Category:German television presenters
Category:German television reporters and correspondents