Matthias Fornoff (born 28 August 1963, in

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) is a German television journalist.

Early life and career

Fornoff studied history,

Slavic studies Slavic (American English) or Slavonic (British English) studies, also known as Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was prim ...

and politics at the

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, and received a master's degree from the

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

. Fornoff has worked for the German broadcaster

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since 1992. In 1997, he received a

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award for his reporting on the

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. He later served as ZDF's Washington, D.C. correspondent from 2007 to 2010. Beginning in 2010, Fornoff served alongside

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as a moderator of the German news show ''

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''. In 2014, he became the head of ZDF's editorial department concerning politics and current affairs, also serving as a supervisor for election polling. Fornoff also currently serves as a presenter on the ZDF show

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Personal life

Fornoff is married and has two children.

Awards

* 1997:

– for reporting on the

References

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