Eckhart Nickel

Eckhart Nickel (2017)

Eckhart Nickel (* 1966 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German writer and journalist .

Life

After studying art history and literature in Heidelberg and New York , Nickel worked for the Zeitgeist magazine Tempo , ARTE in Strasbourg and Architectural Digest magazine . His texts appear in the weekend editions of the SZ and FAZ . From autumn 2004 to the last issue in summer 2006, Eckhart Nickel was editor-in-chief together with publisher Christian Kracht from Kathmandu on the literary magazine Der Freund . From January to October 2007 he was responsible for style reporting at SZ in the Saturday supplement SZ weekend.

Originally assigned to pop literature , Nickels works mainly deal with the fate of modern man during the revolt. Through Nickel's works, the confrontation with the weather in all its forms, as well as the exact elaboration of text simulations, i.e. texts that only pretend to deal with themselves (see also the longer stories "Scheinanfahrt" and NOMEN (Not without my own name)). "In his more recent works (including the first, previously unpublished novel 'The Wasp'), the author suggests a more serious undertone, which in the demand for morality becomes rebellious poetry," said the Goethe-Institut in a profile. The author lives in Frankfurt am Main.

Nickel was invited to the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2017 , where he received the Kelag Prize, previously the State of Carinthia Prize and Prize of the Jury , for the beginning of his novel "Hysteria", which was published by Piper Verlag in autumn 2018 , was awarded. A year later, the completed novel was on the long list of the German Book Prize . In 2019, Nickel was awarded the Friedrich-Hölderlin-Förderpreis of the city of Bad Homburg .

Works (selection)

• The mishap with the fat bloom , in: When the hangover comes, stories, edited by Martin Hielscher, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, 1996, ISBN 3-462-02570-8
• Strollers. Enabling the art of living in the late work of Thomas Bernhard , Manutius 1997, ISBN 3-925678-72-7
• Holidays forever (travel reports - together with Christian Kracht ), Dtv 1998, ISBN 3-423-12881-X
• The picture of the evening , in: When head and book collide, stories, edited by Thomas Tebbe, Piper 1998, ISBN 3-492-22670-1
• Tristesse Royale (together with Joachim Bessing , Christian Kracht , Alexander von Schönburg and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre ), Ullstein 1999, ISBN 3-548-60070-0
• Tropical triptych , in: Krachkultur 8/1999
• What I think of it , Quadriga 2000, ISBN 3-88679-348-6
• Paris Bar Berlin (together with Michel Würthle), Quadriga 2000, ISBN 3-88679-349-4
• Instructions for use for Portugal , Piper 2003, ISBN 3-492-27520-6 (Dutch: Reisleesboek Portugal , Uitgeverij het Spectrum, Utrecht, 2005, ISBN 9027499888 )
• Konstantin Grcic for Classicon , Salone del Mobile Milano 2003
• My Generation - The sad story of Noah Rubin , Eiger-Verlag, Bern 2004
• Anonymous - In the future no one will be famous . Catalog for the exhibition in the Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, 2006, ISBN 3-936859-51-5
• Colorful dust. Ernst Jünger im Gegenlicht ( Alexander Pschera , ed.), Matthes & Seitz 2008, ISBN 978-3-88221-725-4
• Instructions for use for Kathmandu and Nepal (travel reports - together with Christian Kracht ), Piper 2009, ISBN 3-492-27564-8
• Hysteria , Roman, Piper Verlag 2018, ISBN 978-3-492-05924-4

Web links

• Literature by and about Eckhart Nickel in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Midad - German-Arabic Literature Forum - Authors - Nickel, Eckhart - Goethe Institute. April 2, 2012, accessed on August 11, 2019 (archive version). 
3. ↑ Eckhart Nickel, D. ORF, accessed on July 7, 2017 . 
4. ↑ orf.at - authors of the Bachmann Prize 2017 presented . Article dated May 24, 2017, accessed May 25, 2017.
5. ↑ orf.at: Schmalz wins Bachmann Prize . Article dated July 9, 2017, accessed July 9, 2017.