As a student, Frank Plasberg wrote as a freelancer
Journalist for various newspapers. At eighteen
he completed his traineeship at the Schwäbische Zeitung in Leutkirch im Allgäu and was later
Police reporter and editor of the Munich evening newspaper.

In 1980 he began studying the
Theater Studies, Politics and Education in Cologne, which he dropped out of after seventeen semesters. His first
He started radio broadcast at SWF3 in the same year.

From 1987 to 2002 Plasberg led together
Christine Westermann through the program "Aktuelle Hour", for which he was also editor-in-chief from 1993
was responsible. Plasberg has been moderating the political talk show "Hart aber fair" on the first German television channel since 2007.