Max Hofmann Biography
Max Hofmann (Maximilian Hofmann) is a German broadcast journalist currently serving as the bureau chief of the Deutsche Welle Studio in Brussels, Belgium. He has been in this role since 2014.
Hofmann went to Gymnasium bei St. Michael, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany where he graduated from in 1994. He then joined CELSA, Paris-Sorbonne, Île-de-France in 1996 and received a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Journalism in 1998. Sometime after, he attended the Free University of Berlin, Germany from 1998 to 2002. He graduated with a Master of Arts degree in Communication and Journalism, and North American Studies. From 2002 to 2003 he volunteered at Deutsche Welle (DW), Germany.
Max Hofmann Age
He was born in 1974 in Tübingen, Germany. However, he was raised in Schwäbisch Hall. Due to the lack of information on his exact date of birth, he can only speculate that he is either 44 of 45 years old as of 2019.
Max Hofmann Family
Born in Tübingen, Hofmann grew up in Schwäbisch Hall, German and spent his summers in Indiana. His father is German while his mother was American.
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Deutsche Welle (DW) is Germany’s public international broadcaster that is funded by the German government. Its work is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act meaning that content is always independent of government influence.
Since 2005, Hofmann has been working for DW. He worked as the Personal Editor for the Managing Director of DW in Germany, working on various special projects from 2005 to 2010. He has also worked as a Moderator for the DW Clipmania and Deutsche Beats shows from 2010-2014.
Max became a Senior Correspondent for North America at the DW Studio in Washington, D.C., the United States from 2010 to 2014. Since 1 August 2014, he has been DW’s European Correspondent and the Brussels Bureau Chief in charge of the DW Studio in Belgium, reporting on the European Union (EU), NATO, Benelux and France.
Max Hofmann as a Journalist
Hofmann and Tagesthemen moderator Caren Miosga jointly conducted a French-language TV interview with President Emmanuel Macron on 9th May 2018. The interview was President Macron’s first with a German television channel.
He also worked as a Television and Radio Reporter for Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) in Germany from 2003 to 2005 and as a News Anchor for the Journal, a DW news program in Germany from 2005 to 2007.
From 2000 to 2002, Hofmann was an anchor for Radio Eins, an RBB station, in Germany and as an anchor too for Star FM Radio, a rock station in Germany from 1999 to 2000.
Max Hofmann Awards
Hofmann received the RIAS Berlin Commission New Media Award on 30th May 2010. He received the award alongside Christoph Lanz for their documentary, “Eingemauert or Walled In”. The documentary talked about the nature of the inner-German border. It was published on the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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