Gerhard Eckert

Gerhard Eckert (born February 12, 1912 in Oberlößnitz ; † May 20, 2009 ) was a German media scientist , writer , journalist and publicist on the subjects of cooking, traveling and radio.

Live and act

Eckert was born in February 1912 in the Saxon rural community of Oberlößnitz, a villa suburb of Dresden and today's district of the city of Radebeul . After graduating from high school, he studied German language and literature, newspaper studies and art history in Dresden and at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . On the subject of his dissertation with Emil Dovifat at the Institute for Newspaper Studies, he made the still young sound film and radio play ( design of literary material in sound film and radio play ) in 1936 . His habilitation in 1941 had the topic of radio as a guide . At that time he also published under the name Gerd Eckert .

During his military service in World War II, he worked as a radio journalist for the soldier broadcaster Belgrade .

After the war, he began his writing career in Altötting , Bavaria , first writing for magazines as a freelance author. During this time he gained a reputation as a television theorist, and in 1953 his analysis The Art of Television was published . Eckert was one of the proponents of German private television at the end of the 1950s. He wrote the expert opinion for the establishment of the first German private television company , the Free Television Society (FFG).

Later he settled in Kükelühn in East Holstein , where he lived and worked in a farmhouse with his wife and partly co-author Anneliese Eckert . He took over the office of chairman of the local writers' association, which he filled until 1989.

It was mainly there that his well over two hundred books were written, which earned him the nickname “Writer King” in Ostholstein. Eckert wrote detective novels, but also numerous travelogues, hiking guides, collections of anecdotes and cookbooks. Co-author of the latter was his wife Anneliese.

After reunification, he visited his Saxon homeland for the first time, where he made numerous new contacts and made his extensive work known.

Four years after Eckart's death, his widow Anneliese had his last work published: Under the title I still like to live there are the posthumous “records of his unsteady, exciting and so extremely varied life”, which lasted 97 years.

literature

• William Uricchio: The beginnings of German television: critical approaches to the development up to 1945 (= media in research and teaching. Series A. Volume 30). Niemeyer, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-484-34030-4 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
• Wolfgang Zimmermann: “I still like to live” - four years after the death of the Radebeul-born writer Gerhard Eckert, his last book has now been published. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, April 2014, accessed on April 2, 2014 (review). 

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Eckert in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Obituary notice Kieler Nachrichten dated May 30, 2009
2. ↑ Lu Seegers: The success story of HÖR ZU! (1946-1965) . In: Listen! Eduard Rhein and the radio program magazines (1931–1965). Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Potsdam 2001, p. 151–232 ( online ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ). 
3. ^ Gerhard Eckert: The radio as a means of guidance. In: Studies on world broadcasting and television broadcasting. Edited by Kurt Wagenführ in collaboration with the Institute for Broadcasting at the University of Berlin, Vol. 1, Heidelberg / Berlin / Magdeburg 1941.
4. ↑ Gerd Eckert: Review of the Wehrmacht ring broadcast. In: The literature. Monthly for lovers of literature. Year 43 (1940/41), issue 6, ZDB -ID 214969-2 , pp. 301–303 (description of the preparation and course of the Christmas ring broadcast 1940).
5. ↑ Peter Seibert: Television as a medium of literature (= intervals , volume 13). kassel university press, Kassel 2013, ISBN 978-3-86219-438-4 , p. 43 ( limited preview in Google book search).
6. ^ Gerhard Eckert: The art of television. Emsdetten 1953.
7. ↑ ^{a b} Wolfgang Zimmermann: “I still like to live” - four years after the death of the Radebeul-born writer Gerhard Eckert, his last book has now been published. In: Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area. Radebeuler Monatshefte eV, April 2014, accessed on April 2, 2014 (review).