Daniel Martin Eckhart

Daniel Martin Eckhart
Born (1962-12-09) 9 December 1962
St. Gallen, Switzerland
Occupation Screenwriter, author
Genre Thriller, Crime, fantasy
Website
www.danielmartineckhart.com

Daniel Martin Eckhart (born 9 December 1962)[1] is a Swiss screenwriter and author. His work as a screenwriter has been Grimme-Prize nominated. He is the author of the novels The Champ, Barnaby Smith and Home.

Early life

Eckhart was born and raised in St. Gallen, Switzerland.[2] After completing military service in Switzerland, Eckhart joined the Vatican State's Swiss Guards. He served from 1983–1985. He joined the United Nations in 1985 as a security officer at the New York headquarters for the 1985 UN General Assembly. From 1986–1990 he worked as a United Nations Field Service Officer in Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Iraq.[2]

Writing

Eckhart began his screenwriting career while studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York from 1990–1992. He has written episodes for two German TV series, Die Cleveren and GSG9 – Die Elite Einheit. He has written three of Germany's Tatort films, and has adapted two of Craig Russell's novels in the Jan Fabel series, Blood Eagle and Brother Grimm. Eckhart has also adapted the as yet unproduced The Coffee Trader by David Liss and Dead Simple by Peter James. He published his first novel, The Champ, in 2012, followed by Barnaby Smith in 2015.[3]

Teaching

Eckhart has been involved with the London Screenwriters' Festival for a number of years. In 2010 he participated in a panel discussion on TV crime drama with screenwriters Rick Drew, Barbara Machin and Andrew Taft.[4][5] Another 2010 session with Ollie Madden, Nik Bower, Kate Harwood and Jonny Newman focused on writing spec scripts. In 2011 Eckhart was part of the lecture on writers' pitfalls, together with Paul Andrew Williams, Evan Leighton-Davis, Danny Stack and Steven Russell. In 2012 Eckhart was one of the panelists on the screenwriting survival guide session.[6]

In 2014 Eckhart teamed up with Academy Award winning screenwriter Ted Tally. At the London Screenwriters' Festival the two screenwriters hosted a session on adaptations, with a focus on craft and collaboration.[7][8] The same year Eckhart also talked about screenwriting adaptations at the European TV Drama Series Lab in Berlin.[9]

Novels

Film & TV credits

References

  1. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0248676/
  2. 1 2 "Interview with Daniel Martin Eckhart". Adelaide Screenwriter. 20 August 2013.
  3. ↑ http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/daniel-martin-eckhart/
  4. ↑ "Crime Pays". London Screenwriters' Festival. 1 November 2010.
  5. ↑ Crime Screenwriters Discuss Cops n' Docs. YouTube. 24 March 2011.
  6. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhSEL6u8McE
  7. ↑ http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/london-screenwriters-festival-daniel-martin-eckhart-ted-tally
  8. ↑ http://www.chrisjonesblog.com/2014/10/adapting-martin-eckhart.html
  9. ↑ http://www.epi-medieninstitut.de/pn-speaker_seminar-279_en.html
  10. 1 2 http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/daniel-martin-eckhart
  11. ↑ http://blakefriedmann.co.uk/news/two-more-craig-russell-books-optioned-by-tivoli-film-for-ard

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