| Matthias Fornoff | |
| Birth Date: | 28 August 1963 |
| Birth Place: | Mainz, Germany |
| Occupation: | Television journalist |
Matthias Fornoff (born 28 August 1963, in Mainz) 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.
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.[1] Beginning in 2010, Fornoff served alongside Petra Gerster as a moderator of the German news show heute.[2] In 2014, he became the head of ZDF's editorial department concerning politics and current affairs, also serving as a supervisor for election polling.[3] Fornoff also currently serves as a presenter on the ZDF show Politbarometer.
Fornoff is married and has two children.[4]