Emanuel Eckardt

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Emanuel Eckardt (born 17 August 1942) is a German journalist, and caricaturist.

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Life

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  [ de ], 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]

Work

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