Amelie Fried

Amelie Fried (6 September 1958) is a German writer and television presenter. Her father, Kurt Fried, is the creator-publisher of Schwäbische Donauzeitung, nowadays a part of Südwest Presse. She studied journalism and film at university. She has worked extensively in television and has published numerous books.

Her 2008 book Schuhhaus Pallas. Wie meine Familie sich gegen die Nazis wehrte (Pallas Shoe Store. How My Family Fought Against the Nazis) deals with her family's persecution in Nazi Germany. The book received significant media attention and has been the subject of much debate. After graduating from the Odenwald School in Heppenheim, Fried studied theater, journalism, art history, German studies, communication studies, ethnology, and Italian in Munich from 1976 to 1983. She then studied documentary film and television journalism until 1989 at the Munich University of Television and Film.In 1984, Fried began to host television programs, including the 1984—1997 youth radio program Live aus dem Alabama (Live from Alabama), which dealt with topics such as AIDS, right-wing radicalism, drugs, and occultism. She also hosted the show 3 nach 9 between 1999 and 2009.Fried has worked extensively as a writer. Until 2011, she wrote a regular column for the women's magazine Für Sie, and in 1995, she published her first children's book, Die StörenFrieds. Geschichten von Leo und Paulina (The Troublemakers. Stories from Leo and Paulina).Fried is married to screenwriter Peter Probst, who has contributed to some of her publications.