Matthias Frings

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Matthias Frings (2008)

Hellmut Matthias Frings (born April 14, 1953 in Aachen ) is a German journalist , television presenter and writer .

Life

Frings grew up in Aachen and attended school there until he graduated from high school . He then studied English , German and linguistics at RWTH Aachen University from 1974 to 1977 . As a homosexual student, he was involved in founding the local gay group Aachener Printenschwestern in 1974 . After completing his master's degree, he moved to Berlin.

Autograph

In the late 1970s he was a member of the independent theater group Zan Pollo in Berlin. He worked as an actor, waiter, taxidermist and freelance for the ZDF culture magazine, aspects . In 1982, together with Elmar Kraushaar, he published his first book, Männer-Liebe bei Rowohlt . From 1985 he worked as a radio presenter for the Sender Freies Berlin , as well as for various newspapers and magazines.

From 1992 onwards he was the producer and presenter of the television program Liebe Sünde at the VOX broadcaster and switched to ProSieben in 1993 , where he presented this program until 1995. He was followed by Andrea Thilo and Mo Asumang as presenters, while Frings continued to produce the show. In addition, he worked as a journalist and moderator of panel discussions.

For his biography about Ronald M. Schernikau , with whom he was a personal friend, he was nominated in 2009 for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in the “ Non-Fiction ” category.

Publications

  • Men, love. - A handbook for gays and anyone who wants to become one . Reinbek 1982 (together with Elmar Kraushaar)
  • Hot Years - The Puberty Thing . Reinbek 1983 (together with Elmar Kraushaar)
  • Love things - remarks on man's sexuality . Reinbek 1984
  • A picture of the man . Reinbek 1986 (with photographs by Thomas Henning)
  • AIDS - dimensions of a disease . Reinbek 1986
  • Flesh and Blood - About Pornography . Reinbek 1988
  • The last communist. The dreamlike life of Ronald M. Schernikau . Berlin 2009
  • A flawless descent . Construction Publishing House Berlin 2011
  • Sometimes life is , Berlin 2014
  • The 33rd wedding of Donia Nour by Hazem Ilmi. Berlin 2016 (translation from English)
  • The unreal life of Sergei Nabokov by Paul Russell. Hamburg 2017 (translation from American English)
  • Myth - What the Gods Tell Us Today by Stephen Fry. (Translation from English) Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 2018
  • The sun child is now dancing on the stars , in: Das Sonnenkind by Detlev Meyer, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 2018
  • numerous book chapters and articles, columns, glosses for newspapers and magazines

literature

  • Michael Völkel: The Lexicon of TV Presenters. Anecdotes, facts and sayings from 50 years of TV history , Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-89602-524-4 , p. 163

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SURNAME Frings, Matthias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist, television presenter and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen