Amelie Fried

Amelie Fried is a German writer and television presenter, born on 6 September 1958. She studied theatre, journalism, art history, German studies and several other subjects at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1976 to 1983, then documentary film and television journalism at the University of Television and Film Munich until 1989. From 1984 she hosted broadcast programmes, among them the youth radio programme Live aus dem Alabama, which ran until 1997 and dealt with subjects such as AIDS, right-wing radicalism and drugs, and later the show 3 nach 9 from 1999 to 2009. Alongside broadcasting she wrote a regular column for the women's magazine Für Sie until 2011 and published novels, children's books and a family history of resistance to the Nazis, several of which were adapted for film. Her father, Kurt Fried, was the creator and publisher of the regional newspaper Schwäbische Donauzeitung. Her honours include the Grimme-Preis and Telestar in 1986 and a Bambi for television hosting in 1988.