Anatol Locker

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Anatol Locker (* 1963 ) is a German journalist and one of the pioneers of computer game journalism in Germany.

biography

The son of actress Gerlinde Locker first completed an apprenticeship as a retail bookseller and began studying at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . He began his career as a journalist in 1986 at Markt & Technik Verlag in Haar (near Munich) while still studying. Initially intended as a vacation job during his studies, he finally began to write full-time for the magazine Happy Computer . There he soon devoted himself exclusively to computer games and worked with Heinrich Lenhardt and Boris Schneider , among others . He was involved in the creation of the magazine Power Play , of which he was one of the first editors.

After Lenhardt and Schneider left, Locker was editor-in-chief of Power Play for a short time, but left the editorial team after issue 1/92. He was also involved in founding the Video Games magazine (also at Markt & Technik Verlag) and was its first editor-in-chief.

Locker then worked first as a music editor for the German edition of the lifestyle magazine Wiener , then as department head at TV Movie , where he was responsible for the pop culture section. In 1994 he became deputy editor-in-chief of the online service Europe Online. In 1997 he developed the magazine Bravo Screenfun , which he headed as editor-in-chief with a one-year break until 2007.

Locker has been working as a freelance journalist since 2007, including for ZDF , CHIP , Futurezone and other publications. He produced the game veterans podcast until 2014 and is a participant in the talk show "Isarrunde". In 2014 he founded the 3D printing startup All3DP.

Locker now lives with his family in Munich.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Anatol Locker: Freelance journalist and consultant. Speakers of the Academy of German Media , accessed on October 14, 2013.
  2. ↑ a b Interview with Anatol Locker - Kultboy.com
  3. ↑ Isar Round
  4. ↑ All3DP
  5. ↑ AnatolLocker.de
personal data
SURNAME Easy, Anatol
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1963