Draft:Micky Beisenherz

Michael "Micky" Beisenherz (born 28 June 1977) is a German podcast and television moderator, columnist and writer.

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 were 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 of the eponymous city. Starting in the 2000s, he worked for the entertainment of Radio NRW until 2010. In 2009, he started 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!.  In RTL II, he had his first major on-screen appearances when he commentated the broadcast of the Loveparade in 2007 and 2008 and when he co-moderated the Der große Deutsch-Test'' ('The big German [Grammatical/Spelling] Quiz') with Sonja Zietlow from 2010 to 2012. As his career went on, he worked (and still works) for many other major german TV channels such as WDR, n-tv, ProSieben and ZDFneo.

He runs 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 Jens Oliver Haas, 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.

Filmography

 * 2008: Happy Otto! Wir haben Grund zum Feiern …
 * 2008: Der große Comedy Adventskalender
 * 2010–2012: Der große Deutsch-Test
 * 2012: Die Pyramide (TV)
 * 2012: Stadt, Land … (Moderation)
 * 2012–2013: Guinness World Records – Wir holen den Rekord nach Deutschland
 * 2014: Hape Kerkeling: Keine Geburtstagsshow! (Author, Guest Appearance)
 * 2014–2015: WUMMS!
 * 2015: Jetzt wird’s schräg (Guest Appearance)
 * 2015–2017: Das Duell um die Geld (Commentator)
 * 2015–2018: Das Lachen der Anderen
 * 2016–2017: Mitfahr-Randale – Wer aussteigt, verliert
 * 2017: Die beste Show der Welt (Guest moderator)
 * 2017–: Kölner Treff (Moderation)
 * 2018: WM Kwartira (Late Night about the Football Worldcup 2018 with Jörg Thadeusz)
 * 2018: Ultimate Beastmaster, Season 3 (Host, with Jeannine Michaelsen)
 * 2019: Artikel 5 mit Micky Beisenherz (Moderator)
 * 2020-: #Beisenherz (Moderator)
 * 2020: Grill den Henssler (Guest Appearance)
 * 2020: Joko & Klaas gegen ProSieben (Guest Appearance)
 * 2021: Das Duell um die Welt – Team Joko gegen Team Klaas (Guest Appearance)
 * 2021: Sportschau Club
 * 2023: jerks. (Guest Appearance)

Podcasts

 * Apokalypse & Filterkaffee
 * With Maik Nöcker and Lucas Vogelsang: Fussball MML
 * With Oliver Polak since 2022: Friendly Fire

Books

 * Bedienungsanleitung Mann – so macht Frau ihn funktionstüchtig. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-596-18675-4.
 * Zum Traumpaar in 30 Tagen. Langenscheidt, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-468-73839-5.
 * … und zur Apokalypse gibt es Filterkaffee: Dinge, von denen ich nichts verstehe, über die ich aber trotzdem schreibe. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-63429-1. (A compilation of his columns for the Stern)
 * Schreib oder Stirb. Droemer, München 2022, ISBN 978-3-426-28273-1 (with Sebastian Fitzek).

Awards

 * Axel-Springer-Preis in the Radio category in 2006