Matthias Fornoff

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]

• 1997: Telestar – for reporting on the 1997 Central European flood