Eckhart Nickel

[1] After studying art history and literature in Heidelberg and New York City,[1] he worked at various media outlets including the German lifestyle magazine Tempo,[2] Arte television in Strasbourg, and Architectural Digest.

[1] He co-wrote the 1998 travel book Ferien für immer with the Swiss writer Christian Kracht.

[3] From January to October 2007 he was in charge of lifestyle writing for the Saturday supplement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

At the start of his career Nickel was classified in the so-called "pop literature" genre of contemporary German writing; his works are chiefly concerned with the fate of modern man in a state of rebellion.

Initially highly self-referential, one reviewer has noted a "more serious undertone" to his more recent works.