Emanuel Eckardt

Eckardt was born in Hamburg in 1942,[1] grew up there and studied graphics at the Kunstschule Alsterdamm and painting, illustration and book graphics at the Werkkunstschule Hamburg.

From 1965 to 1971, he worked as a freelance caricaturist for the Hamburger Abendblatt. From 1971, he worked as a reporter for Stern, which he left in 1984 to become deputy editor-in-chief at Merian, a position he held until 1988. After an intermezzo at GEO and the music magazine Amadeo (both as the editor-in-chief) and freelance work as reporter and author, he returned to Merian as editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2002.[2]

Eckardt has worked and lived as a freelance author in Hamburg since 1991. His reports have been published in Brigitte, Cicero, Der Feinschmecker, Mare,[1] Merian, SZ-Magazin, Spiegel-Special, Tempo and Die Zeit.

For his work Spiel ohne Grenzen in magazine Stern he was awarded the Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis in 1981.[3][1]

• Hamburg. Eine Liebeserklärung.[4] Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0391-7.
• Troja – ein göttliches Drama, with Felix Eckardt (illustrations). Baumhaus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2005, ISBN 3-833-93564-2.
• Halte Schritt – Kurt Ganske und seine Zeit. Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe 2005, ISBN 3-455-09509-7.
• Herbert List. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-8319-0131-7.
• Der Hausmeister – ein Schlüsselroman. Zürich, Haffmans Verlag 1990, ISBN 3-251-00164-7.
• Der Mops von Bornholm – die Wahrheit über Morten, den einzigen Mops, der ein grosser Sänger war; eine Bildergeschichte. Frankfurt, Insel 1985, ISBN 3-458-32566-2.
• Kein schöner Land zusammen mit Sebastian Knauer. Hamburg, Gruner und Jahr 1979, ISBN 3-570-00740-5.

• Literature by and about Emanuel Eckardt in the German National Library catalogue