Micky Beisenherz
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Michael Beisenherz (born 28 June 1977) is a German podcast and television moderator, columnist and writer.
Biography
= Early life =
Michael Beisenherz was born to a family of Tinsmiths on 28 June 1977 in Recklinghausen but grew up in the nearby and slightly smaller town of Castrop-Rauxel where he got his Abitur at the Adalbert Stifter Gymnasium in 1997. He then studied Social science for one semester in Bochum before working on construction sites for about one year.{{Cite web |title=Micky Beisenherz - Munzinger Biographie |url=https://www.munzinger.de/register/portrait/biographien/Micky%20Beisenherz/00/32685 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=www.munzinger.de}}
= Career =
Beisenherz started his career on Radio Herne 90,8, a local radio station in the eponymous city. Starting in the 2000s, he worked for the entertainment of {{Ill|Radio NRW|de}} until 2010. In 2009, he began writing gags for the moderators of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, colloquially known as the Jungle Camp, a Trash TV series, based on the British I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! before starting to write entire episodes in 2011. In RTL II, he had his first major on-screen and live appearances when he commentated the broadcast of the Loveparade in 2007 and 2008 and when he co-moderated Der große Deutsch-Test ('The big German [Grammatical/Spelling] Quiz') with Sonja Zietlow from 2010 to 2012. As his career went on, he worked (and still works) for many other major TV channels such as WDR, n-tv, ProSieben and ZDFneo and has written for popular comedians like Dirk Bach, Atze Schröder and Dieter Nuhr.{{Cite web |last=Brieden |first=Ines |date=14 April 2023 |title=Micky Beisenherz: Hat der Moderator und Podcaster eine Freundin? |url=https://www.desired.de/artikel/micky-beisenherz-hat-der-attraktive-moderator-eine-freundin--8j37mx6fv6 |access-date=16 July 2024 |website=desired.de}}{{Cite web |date=2019-02-20 |title=Micky Beisenherz über guten Humor und die Lust am Draufhauen - WELT |url=https://www.welt.de/iconist/partnerschaft/article189011285/Micky-Beisenherz-ueber-guten-Humor-und-die-Lust-am-Draufhauen.html |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=DIE WELT |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Micky Beisenherz |url=https://www.turi2.de/index-2/koepfe/beisenherz-micky/ |access-date=2024-07-23 |website=turi2 |language=de-DE}}
He has multiple podcasts, and writes columns for Stern (a series called Sorry, ich bin privat hier) and about fashion for Die Zeit.{{Cite web |date=2024-04-06 |title=Micky Beisenherz |url=https://www.zeit.de/autoren/B/Micky_Beisenherz/index |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=ZEIT ONLINE |language=de}}{{Cite web |title=Im Wechsel mit Meike Winnemuth: Micky Beisenherz wird "Stern"-Kolumnist - HORIZONT |url=https://www.horizont.net/medien/nachrichten/Im-Wechsel-mit-Meike-Winnemuth-Micky-Beisenherz-wird-Stern-Kolumnist-140517 |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=www.horizont.net |language=de}}
= Personal life =
He was married with Silja Haas, the sister of Sonja Zietlow's husband {{Ill|Jens Oliver Haas|de}}, from 2012 to 2019. They had one daughter, Pippa Haas, born in July 2015.{{Cite web |date=1977-06-28 |title=Micky Beisenherz {{!}} Steckbrief, Bilder und News |url=https://web.de/magazine/unterhaltung/thema/micky-beisenherz |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=WEB.DE News |language=de}} As of 2023, he is dating Nikki Hassan-Nia, a Lufthansa flight attendant.{{Cite web |date=2022-04-18 |title=Micky Beisenherz privat: Hat der "Kölner Treff"-Moderator Familie? |url=https://www.promipool.de/stars/micky-beisenherz-privat-hat-der-koelner-treff-moderator-familie |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Promipool.de |language=de}}
Notable work
= Filmography =
= Podcasts =
- Apokalypse & Filterkaffee{{Cite web |title=Apokalypse & Filterkaffee |url=https://studio-bummens.de/produktionen/spotify-podcast/apokalypse-filterkaffee/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Studio Bummens |language=de-DE}}
- With Maik Nöcker and Lucas Vogelsang: Fussball MML{{Cite web |title=FUSSBALL MML – Die Fußball Podcasts |url=https://fussballmml.de/ |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=FUSSBALL MML |language=de-DE}}
- With {{Ill|Oliver Polak|de}} since 2022: Friendly Fire{{Cite web |title=Friendly Fire |url=https://open.spotify.com/show/1IydtRyMeM0uwhbPX4QGVg |access-date=2024-07-15 |website=Spotify |language=en}}
= Books =
- Bedienungsanleitung Mann – so macht Frau ihn funktionstüchtig. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, {{ISBN|978-3-596-18675-4}}.
- Zum Traumpaar in 30 Tagen. Langenscheidt, Berlin 2012, {{ISBN|978-3-468-73839-5}}.
- … und zur Apokalypse gibt es Filterkaffee: Dinge, von denen ich nichts verstehe, über die ich aber trotzdem schreibe. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2019, {{ISBN|978-3-499-63429-1}}. (A compilation of his columns for the Stern)
- Schreib oder Stirb. Droemer, München 2022, {{ISBN|978-3-426-28273-1}} (with Sebastian Fitzek).
Awards
- Axel-Springer-Preis in the Radio category in 2006{{Cite web |date=2006-04-04 |title=Axel-Springer-Preis für Junge Journalisten 2006: Die besten deutschen Nachwuchsjournalisten in Print, TV, Hörfunk und Internet stehen fest |url=https://www.presseportal.de/pm/6338/806807 |access-date=2024-07-16 |website=presseportal.de |language=de}}
External links
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