Maximilian Schönherr (born 27 December 1954) is a German journalist, musician, and photographer.

[1] After studying mathematics and physics at the Universities of Würzburg and Munich, he worked for the Bayerischer Rundfunk.

His contributions to Deutschlandfunk are Forschung aktuell, its saturday edition Computer und Kommunikation, and its sunday edition Wissenschaft im Brennpunkt, amongst other things.

He has written several books on computer animation with Maya and in 2001/2002 had lectureships for visual communication at the FH Aachen and the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg.

[citation needed] In 2008, Charité awarded Schönherr the media award „Medizin – Mensch – Technik“ for the radio feature „Smarties für die Prostata – IT-gestützte Visualisierungstechniken in der Medizin“.