Eckhard Mieder

Eckhard Mieder (born May 9, 1953 in Dessau ) is a German journalist, writer and filmmaker.

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Life

Mieder passed his Abitur in 1971 at the Alexander von Humboldt School in the Berlin district of Köpenick. After a year and a half of military service and a year of traineeship with the General German Intelligence Service, he studied at the Journalism section at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. After eight years of working as an editor and reporter for the youth magazine Neues Leben and as an editor on East German television (1978–1986), Mieder became a freelance author.

Mieder turned to work in the media (radio and television) at an early age. He wrote some radio plays for the radio of the GDR, RBB, SFB, Deutschlandfunk and Radio Bremen, u. a. "Dreckfresser" (1995, Radio Brandenburg), "What is the case" (1998, SFB). For documentaries he worked as a dramaturge and scenarioist at DEFA. a. "... because everything moves, my friend" (1987), "In the passage" (1990). From the end of the 1990s he created a number of documentaries and features as a writer and director for Hessischer Rundfunk, ARD and ZDF, etc. a. "Deadly encounter - the life of Norbert Plath" (2001, ARD, with Sabine Mieder), "Heimatwege. Three-part documentary ”(2006, ZDF),“ Comrade Father - a GDR career ”(2009, ZDFneo),“ Steel, glass and old walls - on the construction site of the Eurobank am Main ”(2012, hr),“ The sloping tower from Frankfurt "(2015, hr).

Mieder was one of the co-founders of the weekly newspaper “die other” (1989/1990) and is a regular author of the biweekly Das Blättchen and the Untergrund-Blättle. He has been publishing with Edition Schwarzdruck since 2012, and with Verlag am park since 1997 .

He is married and has two daughters. After almost fifty years in Berlin , he moved to Frankfurt am Main with his family in 2002 .

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• The old gas station. Radio play, radio of the GDR 1983.
• Horses trot on the roofs. Narrative. New Life Publishing House, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-355-01245-9 .
• Luise Indiewelt. Around half the world in eight days. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-88520-611-0 (also: Unabridged edition (=  dtv 70681 Junior ). Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-70681-3 ), (nominated for the German Youth Book Prize 1998 ).
• Paper goes around. The ghostly deposits of Johannes Tütenholz. Stories. Verlag am Park, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-932180-05-4 .
• The giggling cow. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88520-685-4 .
• Willis awakening. Elefanten Press, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-88520-746-X .
• Reading pirate pirate stories. Loewe, Bindlach 2001, ISBN 3-7855-3660-7 .
• Reading lion polar bear stories. Loewe, Bindlach 2001, ISBN 3-7855-3751-4 .
• The history of Germany after 1945. Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2002, ISBN 3-593-36908-7 .
• A feast for Benjamin. Gabriel-Verlag in Thienemanns Verlag, Stuttgart [u. a.] 2002, ISBN 3-522-30028-9 .
• On the ferry. Novella. edition schwarzdruck, Gransee 2012, ISBN 978-3-935194-51-8 .
• Death of the teacher. Novella. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89793-192-3 .
• Absolutely and on the other. Portraits of young Germans in 1978 and 1989/90. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-89793-219-7 .
• Fall of the Estonia. A farce. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-945187-12-8 .
• The Republic of the Rats. Novel. edition schwarzdruck, Gransee 2016, ISBN 978-3-935194-78-5 .
• Life of joab. Novel. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945187-76-0 .
• Henry Haas. Case of a lawyer. Novel. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945187-78-4 .
• The last one or mate yourself. Two stories from the Anthropocene. Verlag am Park, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945187-97-5 .
• Barbarella in Hamburg. German poetry album , Verlag am Park, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947094-34-9 .
• At Tegernsee in yesterday's snow , Verlag am Park, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-947094-52-3 .

Honors

• 1995: 1st radio play award of the ORB
• 2002: Civis Prize
• 2004: 1st International Media Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main

Web links

• Eckhard bodice in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Eckhard Mieder - Friedrich-Bödecker-Kreis e. V.