Micky Beisenherz

Michael Beisenherz (born 28 June 1977) is a German journalist, talk show host, podcast and television moderator, columnist and writer.

Biography

Early life Michael Beisenherz was born to a family of Tinsmiths on 28 June 1977 in Recklinghausen but grew up in the nearby and slightly smaller town of Castrop-Rauxel where he got his Abitur at the Adalbert Stifter Gymnasium in 1997. He then studied Social science for one semester in Bochum before working on construction sites for about one year.

Career Beisenherz started his career on Radio Herne 90,8, a local radio station in the eponymous city. Starting in the 2000s, he worked for the entertainment of until 2010. In 2009, he began writing gags for the moderators of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus!, colloquially known as the Jungle Camp, a Trash TV series, based on the British I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! before starting to write entire episodes in 2011.

He has multiple podcasts, and writes columns for Stern (a series called Sorry, ich bin privat hier) and about fashion for Die Zeit.

Personal life He was married with Silja Haas, the sister of Sonja Zietlow's husband , from 2012 to 2019. They had one daughter, Pippa Haas, born in July 2015. As of 2023, he is dating Nikki Hassan-Nia, a Lufthansa flight attendant.

Notable work

Filmography

Podcasts Apokalypse & Filterkaffee With Maik Nöcker and Lucas Vogelsang: Fussball MML

Books Bedienungsanleitung Mann – so macht Frau ihn funktionstüchtig. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010. Zum Traumpaar in 30 Tagen. Langenscheidt, Berlin 2012. … und zur Apokalypse gibt es Filterkaffee: Dinge, von denen ich nichts verstehe, über die ich aber trotzdem schreibe. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2019. (A compilation of his columns for the Stern'')