Manfred Eichel

Manfred Eichel

Manfred Eichel (born July 9, 1938 in Schwelm ) is a German journalist , filmmaker and university lecturer .

Life

Eichel grew up in Gevelsberg . His father was a businessman. He currently lives and works in Berlin .

Education

1960 to 1967 he completed a general course in Hamburg, Berlin, Münster and then again in Hamburg. In 1967 he passed his first state examination in history and English at Hamburg University.

Career history

Eichel got his first job as an editor at " Spiegel " (1967 to 1971). After four years of freelance work for NDR television (1971 to 1975), Eichel took over as editor-in-chief and presenter of the television magazine “Kultur aktuell” on N3 (1975 to 1992) and from 1989 also the NDR editions of the ARD magazine “Kulturreport” for the first program.

After 19 years with NDR, Eichel moved to ZDF in Mainz in 1992 to take over the management and, alternating with Carola Wedel and later Luzia Braun, the moderation of the cultural magazine “ aspekte ” (until 1999). A year later he also became head of the feature editorial team for “Literature and Art” (1993 to 1999) and the “Literary Quartet” (1993 to 2001). In January 2000 he - now as ZDF's chief correspondent for culture - directed three-quarter and full-hour cultural reports from all over the world under the heading “Hot Spot”. Manfred Eichel was responsible for more than 600 programs for ARD and ZDF and moderated most of them.

Filmography

Without magazine articles. Selection from feature productions with broadcast dates from first broadcasts:

• February 23, 1973 Education in Abundance? Voices on the fears of an academic proletariat, NDR 3, 45 '
• 07.05.1974 The Grand Chef speaks - Leopold Trepper and the "Rote Kapelle", NDR 3, 45 '
• June 18, 1978 Joachim Kühn - pianist between classical, jazz and rock, NDR 3, 45 '
• May 25, 1980 György Ligeti - a musical portrait, NDR 3, 45 '
• September 28, 1980 Onkel Pö's Carnegie Hall - stories and sounds from the legendary Hamburg jazz bar, NDR 3, 45 '
• 19.03.1981 Béla Bartók - a portrait for her 100th birthday, with co-author Michael Kluth in "kultur aktuell", NDR 3, 45 '
• 06/20/1982 Igor Stravinsky - a portrait for his 100th birthday, NDR 3, 45 '
• 11/18/1984 Helmuth Gernsheim - portrait of the photographer, photo historian and art collector, NDR 3, 45 '
• 09/10/1988 Johannes Brahms and the Vienna Art Orchestra - NDR contribution to Nam June Paik's global TV project "Wrap Around the World"
• 12/22/1989 chronicler of the uniquely normal - portrait of the film teller Eberhard Fechner, NDR, 45 '
• 09.09.1990 visit to Rolf Liebermann, the composer and artistic director, conversation on his 80th birthday, ARD / NDR, 30 '
• October 12, 1991 Florentine Talks I - a cultural history of the 20th century, experienced by Rolf Liebermann and Hans Mayer, history: Nazis, war and emigrants, co-production by NDR, WDR, MDR, HR, SDR, ORB, 84 '
• 11/09/1991 Florentine Talks II ..., music: Stravinsky, Jazz and Justus Frantz, co-production by NDR ..., 82 '
• December 7th, 1991 Florentine Conversations III ..., theater and opera: Mythos, Brecht and Karajan, co-production by NDR ..., 67 '
• 01/04/1992 Florentine Talks IV ..., Literature: Adorno, Frisch and Thomas Mann, Co-Production by NDR ..., 86 '
• January 18, 1992 Florentine Conversations V ..., encounters: Scherchen, Bloch and Lili Marleen, co-production by NDR ..., 99 '
• 04/16/1996 Congratulations Sir Peter! - a conversation with Peter Ustinov on his 75th birthday, ZDF, 30 '
• April 13th, 2000 Hot Spot Berlin - What makes Berlin so attractive for young artists from all over the world? ZDF, 45 '
• 05.11.2000 Hot Spot Krakow - cultural portrait of the secret capital of Poland, ZDF, 45 '
• June 19, 2001 Hot Spot Shanghai - cultural portrait of the Chinese metropolis, ZDF, 45 '
• 09.12.2001 Hot Spot Salvador da Bahia - cultural portrait of the old capital of Brazil, ZDF, 45 '
• 04/21/2002 Hot Spot Hanoi - cultural portrait of the capital of Vietnam, ZDF, 45 '
• 06.10.2002 Hot Spot Durban - cultural portrait of the largest port city in Africa, ZDF, 45 '
• 07/30/2003 Hot Spot Havana - cultural portrait of the capital of Cuba, ZDF, 60 '

Honors

In 1988 Manfred Eichel was awarded the “ Alexander Zinn Prize ” by the Hamburg Senate for “outstanding work as a cultural journalist” .

Teaching

In addition to his journalistic work, Eichel also worked for the Goethe Institute from 1988 to 1992: as a seminar leader in Manila, Philippines, and in Guangzhou, China, where he worked with colleagues on site to create zero numbers for regional television culture magazines. As a lecturer at the Goethe Institute, he reported on cultural programs on German television in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.

Since 1988 he has been a lecturer at the University of the Arts Berlin in the department of social and business communication. In 1992 he was appointed honorary professor for television journalism. From 2001 onwards he and other colleagues built up the postgraduate course in "Cultural Journalism", of which he was a member of the executive committee in 2005 and 2006.

Publications

• 2005 Europe for trendy people - encounters in galleries, pubs and clubs. in Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Malta and Nicosia. Manfred Eichel published the cultural travel guide for young people. Its authors were students of the postgraduate course in cultural journalism at the UdK Berlin. The book was published by Parthas-Verlag in Berlin, ISBN 3-86601-165-2 .
• 2006 Only those who burn themselves can ignite others - Hermann Rauhe , the musician, mediator and manager in conversation with Manfred Eichel. Murmann-Verlag, Hamburg, ISBN 3-938017-57-0 . (Hermann Rauhe was President of the University of Music and Theater in Hamburg from 1978 to 2004)

Society and politics

• 1988 delegate of the Federal Republic of Germany at the cultural forum in Budapest
• 2002 co-founder of the “UdK Culture Club” in Berlin
• 2003 co-founder of the "Kulturklubs Hamburg"
• 2003 to 2006 Chairman of the Board of the “Society for the Promotion of Culture in Extended Europe”: Organization of the “Cultural Year of the Ten”, especially in Berlin, to present the cultural wealth that the European Union experienced when ten Central European countries joined the EU in May 2004 .
• 2004 to 2005 member of the project management "Regensburg 2010 - European Capital of Culture"
• since 2006 participation in the "Forum Zukunft Kultur" within the "Stiftung Zukunft Berlin"

Web links

• Literature by and about Manfred Eichel in the catalog of the German National Library
• mentoring.udk-berlin.de