born in 1957, Journalist since 1979, Author of many books about economic and political crime affairs.

Awarded with German "Theodor Wollf Price" 1988 and "Waechter Preis" (Watchdog Award) in 2001 for Investigative Journalism and choosen as one of the german "Journalists of the Year" in 2008.

Freelance Reporter and Photo Journalist since 1997 with an emphasis on the transition in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Southern Africa.

Meinrad Heck is as a book author represented by "Literarische Agentur Simon" in Berlin, Germany.

Over all those decades many many camera systems have been used. Yashica in the very beginning, followed by all kinds of analog and digital Nikons, the legendary Leica M 2 since 1990, Hasselblad, digital Fuji-X-Pro. Today with Leica M (240) Leica M10 monchrome back to the basic roots.