Eckart Sackmann
Eckart Sackmann (born January 2, 1951 in Hanover ) is a German comic publisher, literary historian, author, translator and exhibition organizer.
Life
Sackmann studied art education, English and German in Hamburg , Aberdeen and Paris and completed his studies with state exams, masters and doctorates.
In the early 1970s he began to be more interested in comics. From 1980 to 1981 Sackmann worked for Comixene , from 1981 to 1985 co-editor of the Mecki fan magazine Stachelkopf and from 1982 to 1985 in a position of responsibility for comics at Carlsen Verlag . In 1985 he founded the publishing house Sackmann und Hörndl ( comicplus + ) together with Peter Hörndl . He is editor of the trade journals RRAAH! (1987 to 2001), comics & more (2001–2005) and comics info (since 2005) as well as founder of the comic info sites www.comic.de and www.comicforschung.de.
Sackmann is the author of various articles in national and international comic magazines and in satire , Börsenblatt , BuchMarkt , Buchkultur and Die Zeit . He has lectured on comics at home and abroad and works as a translator from French, Italian and English.
Sackmann co-founded the comics association (ICOM) in 1981 and the Society for Comic Research in 2005 . He is editor of the German Comic Research series (since 2004). He was also the initiator of the Critics' Prize Comic of the Year (awarded from 1990 to 2005) and the Comic Quartet panel discussion . Sackmann is an avowed Donaldist .
Sackmann was a member of the Hildesheim City Council from 2006 to 2011 . From 2006 until he left in April 2010 he was a member of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group . The rest of the time he perceived as a non-attached MP. In the summer of 2011, he withdrew a candidacy for the 2011 local elections for the voters group THE INDEPENDENTS , which he had joined in March 2011.
Sackmann has lived in Leipzig since 2014.
Awards
He has received several awards for his work on comic research. In 1994 and 2000 he won the Max and Moritz Prize at the Erlangen Comic Salon . In 2005 he received the ICOM Independent Comic Prize , in 2017 the PENG! Prize of the Munich Comic Festival .
Works
- Mecki - mascot and myth ; Hamburg 1984
- Masterpieces of fantasy art ; Berlin 1986
- Ursus latex. The Gummy Bear Book ; Hamburg 1990; together with Uwe Scheutzel
- Undercover. Comic artists design record sleeves ; Hamburg 1992
- Mecki - one for all ; Hamburg 1994
- Combine… Manfred Schmidt and Nick Knatterton ; Hamburg 1998
- The German-language comic trade press: an inventory , Comicplus, Hamburg 2000, ISBN 3-89474-085-X (dissertation Universität Hamburg 2000, 320 pages).
- German Comic Research 2005 ; Hildesheim 2004
- The dead of St. Michaelis ; Hildesheim 2004; together with Ivo Kircheis
- German Comic Research 2006 ; Hildesheim 2005
- German Comic Research 2007 ; Hildesheim 2006
- German Comic Research 2008 ; Hildesheim 2007
- German Comic Research 2009 ; Hildesheim 2008
- German Comic Research 2010 ; Hildesheim 2009
- The comics with the big plus + ; Hildesheim 2010
- German Comic Research 2011 ; Hildesheim 2010
- German Comic Research 2012 ; Hildesheim 2011
- German Comic Research 2013 ; Hildesheim 2012
- Oh, Nick Knatterton ; Hildesheim 2013
- German Comic Research 2014 ; Hildesheim 2013
- German Comic Research 2015 ; Leipzig 2014
- German Comic Research 2016 ; Leipzig 2015
- German Comic Research 2017 ; Leipzig 2016
- German Comic Research 2018 ; Leipzig 2017
- German Comic Research 2019 ; Leipzig 2018
- German Comic Research 2020 ; Leipzig 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Eckart Sackmann in the catalog of the German National Library
- comicplus + ( Eckart Sackmann: CV )
- German comic research
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sackmann, Eckart |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German comic publisher, literary historian and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 2, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |