# Micky Beisenherz

Michael Beisenherz (born 28 June 1977) is a German 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 Radio NRW [de] 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. In RTL II, he had his first major on-screen and live appearances when he commentated the broadcast of the Loveparade in 2007 and 2008 and when he co-moderated 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 TV channels such as WDR, n-tv, ProSieben and ZDFneo and has written for popular comedians like Dirk Bach, Atze Schröder and Dieter Nuhr.
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 Jens Oliver Haas [de], 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

| Year(s) | Program | Notes |
| 2023 | jerks. [de] | Guest Appearance |
| 2020- | #Beisenherz | Moderator |
| 2020 | Der deutsche Comedypreis | Author of one episode |
| 2020 | Grill den Henssler [de] | Guest Appearance |
| 2019 | Artikel 5 mit Micky Beisenherz | Moderation |
| 2018 | Ultimate Beastmaster, Season 3 | Host, with Jeannine Michaelsen [de] |
| 2018 | WM Kwartira | Late Night about the Football Worldcup 2018 with Jörg Thadeusz [de]) |
| 2010-2019 | Heute Show | Writer of 29 episodes |
| 2017 | Die Beste Show der Welt | Guest moderator |
| 2017–2022 | Kölner Treff [de] | Moderation with Susan Link replacing Bettina Böttinger. |
| 2015–2017: | Das Duell um die Geld [de] | Live-Commentator |
| 2014-2015 | Extra 3 | Unspecified crew member in 25 episodes |
| 2015 | Jetzt wird's schräg [de] | Guest Appearance |
| 2014–2015 | WUMMS! Die Sportshow [de] | |
| 2014–2021 | Joko gegen Klaas – Das Duell um die Welt | Writer of 10 episodes with a guest appearance in 2021 |
| 2012-2013 | Kalkofes Mattscheibe - Rekalked | Writer of 41 episodes |
| 2012 | Stadt, Land … [de] | Moderator |
| 2012 | Die Pyramide [de] | Moderation with Joachim Llambi [de] of 12 episodes when the show was picked up again after being discontinued in 1994 |
| 2012 | Leute, Leute! [de] | Writer of 7 episodes |
| 2011 | neoParadise [de] | Writer of one episode |
| 2011–2024 | Ich bin ein Star - Holt mich hier raus! | After writing gags for the show's moderators, he started writing entire episodes in 2011. (27 as of 2024) |
| 2010-2012 | Der große Deutsch-Test | Co-moderated 14 episodes with Sonja Zietlow |
| 2010-2019 | Heute Show | Writer of 29 episodes |
| 2010 | The Dome | Writer of 2 episodes |

### Podcasts

* Apokalypse & Filterkaffee
* With Maik Nöcker and Lucas Vogelsang: Fussball MML
* With Oliver Polak [de] 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