Catherine Matausch

Catherine Matausch (born 5 March 1960) is a French journalist and painter. She began her career in journalism as an intern of the editorial staff at a local newspaper before joining the local news service of France 3. Matausch joined France 3's national news service in 1988 and reported on the news for such programmes as Soir 3,. She was also the co-presenter of the monthly spiritual show Agapè and the live music programme . As a painter, Matausch works with dry pastels, turpentine and watercolour under the pseudonym CathMath and has put her works on display in art galleries since 2006. She published the book Instants Nomades in 2015.

Biography On 5 March 1960, Matausch was born in either Brignoles or Cabasse in Var, France. She is the oldest of four children to a mining father from Czechoslovakia called Eric Matausch and a mother by the name of Nadine Matausch ( Bonamy) who worked as a cermacist in a workshop. Matausch had some relatives who were painters, and she became interested in painting when she was in her teenage years, something her father disapproved of because he believed she would abuse drugs and not obtain employment.

In mid-1982, Matausch began her career in journalism as an intern member of the editorial staff at the newspaper. She went on to read the news on the Amiens programme at the France 3 Bourgogne television station and then read the local Picardy newspaper from November 1982. She took further time off work between March and May 2022 due to illness and was replaced by Christophe Gascard, and Sophie Le Saint during that period. After Matausch rejected an offer to work at La Chaîne Info to focus on her family, she is due to stop reading the national news on France 3 when France Télévisions closes its France 3 national news service and replace it with 24 regional services in September 2023.

Since 2006, she has exhibited her art works at art galleries and has also promoted fellow artists. She works with dry pastels, turpentine and watercolour, and signs her paintings under the pseudonym CathMath.

Personal life Matausch is a divorcee and the mother of two children. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in early 2021 which was treated.