Emanuel Eckardt

 ( 20th-century German Journalists ) 

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, Der Spiegel, Tempo and Die Zeit.

For his work Spiel ohne Grenzen in magazine Stern he was awarded the Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis in 1981.Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preis: Alle Preisträger im Überblick (1977–2004).

• Hamburg. Eine Liebeserklärung. Hamburg eine Liebeserklärung on WorldCat Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2010, .
• Troja – ein göttliches Drama, with Felix Eckardt (illustrations). Baumhaus-Verlag, Frankfurt 2005, .
• Halte Schritt – Kurt Ganske und seine Zeit. Hamburg, Hoffmann und Campe 2005, .
• Herbert List. Ellert & Richter Verlag, Hamburg 2003, .
• Der Hausmeister – ein Schlüsselroman. Zürich, Haffmans Verlag 1990, .
• Der Mops von Bornholm – die Wahrheit über Morten, den einzigen Mops, der ein grosser Sänger war; eine Bildergeschichte. Frankfurt, Insel 1985, .
• Kein schöner Land zusammen mit Sebastian Knauer. Hamburg, Gruner und Jahr 1979, .