Emanuel Eckardt
Emanuel Eckardt (born 17 August 1942) is a German journalist, and caricaturist. Life. Eckardt was born in Hamburg in 1942, 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. Eckardt has worked and lived as a freelance author in Hamburg since 1991. His reports have been published in "Brigitte", "Cicero", "", "Mare", "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.