Eike Christian Hirsch (6 April 1937 – 7 August 2022) was a German journalist, author and television presenter.

[2][3] His playmates were the children of the family of Werner Heisenberg among others, and a classmate was a son of Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.

He also wrote a series of humorous word definitions, Deutsch für Besserwisser (German for know-it-alls), which were first published in Stern magazine, and later collected into book form.

A reviewer from the FAZ noted that Hirsch avoided speculation, but provided facts in rich detail in chronological narration.

[8][10] In 1986, Hirsch was awarded the Kassel Literary Prize,[11] for grotesque humour for his amusing interpretation (Der Witzableiter oder die Schule des Lachens, 1985).