Matthias Fornoff (born 28 August 1963, in Mainz)^[1] is a German television journalist.

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Matthias Fornoff
Fornoff in 2023
Born	(1963-08-28) 28 August 1963 (age 60) Mainz, Germany
Occupation	Television journalist

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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