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Matthias Fornoff | |
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 Fornoff in 2023 | |
| Born | 28 August 1963 Mainz, Germany |
| Occupation | Television journalist |
Matthias Fornoff (born 28 August 1963, in Mainz) [1] is a German television journalist.
Fornoff studied history, Slavic studies and politics at the University of Mainz, and received a master's degree from the Free University of Berlin. [1]
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. [2] Beginning in 2010, Fornoff served alongside Petra Gerster as a moderator of the German news show heute . [3] In 2014, he became the head of ZDF's editorial department concerning politics and current affairs, also serving as a supervisor for election polling. [4] Fornoff also currently serves as a presenter on the ZDF show Politbarometer.
Fornoff is married and has two children. [1]
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