Eckhart Nickel (born 1966) is a German author and journalist.
Nickel was born in Frankfurt am Main. [1] After studying art history and literature in Heidelberg and New York City, [1] he worked at various media outlets including the German lifestyle magazine Tempo, [2] Arte television in Strasbourg, and Architectural Digest . [1] His writings were published in the weekend editions of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . [1] He co-wrote the 1998 travel book Ferien für immer with the Swiss writer Christian Kracht. He was also editor-in-chief of the acclaimed literary magazine Der Freund , a collaboration with Kracht (the magazine's publisher), which was created in Kathmandu and published from September 2004 to June 2006. [3] From January to October 2007, he was in charge of lifestyle writing for the Saturday supplement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He is a resident of Sonoma County, California.
At the start of his career, Nickel was classified in the so-called "pop literature" genre of contemporary German writing; his works are chiefly concerned with the fate of modern man in a state of rebellion. Initially highly self-referential, one reviewer has noted a "more serious undertone" to his more recent works. [1]
