Daniel Martin Eckhart is a screenwriter and author. His work as a screenwriter has been Grimme-Prize nominated. He is the author of the novel The Champ. After completing military service in Switzerland, Eckhart joined the Vatican State's Swiss Guards to safeguard the life of Pope John Paul II. 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. Eckhart began his screenwriting career while studying at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York. He has written episodes for two German TV series, Die Cleveren and GSG9 - Die Elite Einheit. He has written three of Germany's iconic Tatort films and has adapted two of Craig Russell's novels in his Jan Fabel series, Blood Eagle and Brother Grimm. Eckhart has adapted The Coffee Trader, a historical novel by David Liss, set in 17th century Amsterdam. He has also adapted the crime novel Dead Simple by Peter James. 

December 9th, 1962 in St. Gallen (Age 61)