Eike Geisel (born 1945, died 6. August 1997) was a journalist and essayist in Germany and Israel.
His essays, studies and polemics led to controversies. A characterization of the book EYE FOR AN EYE of John Sack in Frankfurter Rundschau (taz had not accepted the article) as „Antisemitische Rohkost“ (antisemitic raw food) stopped the German publishing of the translated book 1986. Geisel published among others in Haaretz, an interview with Tom Segev about Israel's founding fathers led to controversy in Israel as well. Background was a controversial stance about Ben Gurion.
Eike Geisel has translated some of the work of Hannah Arendt, essays about Zionism, Palestine and Germany into German. Together with Henryk Broder he has had published essays and a documentary film about Jüdischer Kulturbund (Jewish Cultural Union), a before unknown chapter of Jewish German cultural life during the Nazi era. A project about Jewish revenge, planned attacks against Nazis in the postwar era, was not finished when Geisel died. For Geisel reconciliation and understanding efforts towards the former victims of the Holocaust were simply impossible. .[1]