Petra Hartmann

Petra Hartmann (born 1970 in Hildesheim) is a German literature scientist, journalist and author.

Life

Petra Hartmann grew up in Sillium, a little village near Hildesheim. She visited a humanistic secondary school in Hildesheim and studied German language and literature, philosophy and politics at the University of Hannover. Than she made her doctors degree with a thesis about the young German author Theodor Mundt. During her studying time she worked as a freelance journalist for several newspapers in Lower Saxony and Bremerhaven. After a two years traineeship she became an editor at a daily newspaper in Springe, where she was working for five years. Now she is a freelance author and journalist.

Writing

Petra Hartmann is writing fantasy and fairytales. She won the bronze-medaille of the Storyolympiade three times (1999, 2000 and 2001). In 2008 she won the German Phantastik Price. She published three novels, which were playing in the fantasy-world Movenna. Her main publisher is Wurdack Publishing. For this publisher she was editor of two anthologies of fairytales, too. Furthermore she wrote novellas for Arcanum Publishing. As a literature scientist her main interest is lying on Young Germany (especially Theodor Mundt, Gustav Kühne and Charlotte Stieglitz). She published also essays about Uwe Johnson, about adaptions of the Faust- and Don Juan-theme, about thematic motifs of fantasy and journalistic writing

Books

• Faust und Don Juan. Ein Verschmelzungsprozeß, dargestellt anhand der Autoren Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolaus Lenau, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Gustav Kühne und Theodor Mundt. Stuttgart: ibidem Publishing, 1998. ISBN 3-932602-29-3
• Von Zukunft trunken und keiner Gegenwart voll. Theodor Mundts literarische Entwicklung vom Buch der Bewegung zum historischen Roman. Dissertation. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2003. ISBN 3-89528-390-8
• Geschichten aus Movenna. Nittendorf: Wurdack Publishing, 2004. ISBN 3-938065-00-1
• Ein Prinz für Movenna. Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2007. ISBN 3-938065-24-9
• Zwischen Barrikade, Burgtheater und Beamtenpension. Die jungdeutschen Autoren nach 1835. Stuttgart: ibidem, 2009. ISBN 3-89821-958-5
• Darthula, Tochter der Nebel. Dortmund: Arcanum-Fantasy-Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-3-939139-32-4
• Der Fels der schwarzen Götter. Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2010. ISBN 978-3-938065-64-8
• Die letzte Falkin. Dortmund: Arcanum-Fantasy-Publishing, 2010. ISBN 978-3-939139-62-1
• Die Schlagzeile. Munic: PersonalNovel, 2011.

E-Book

Falkenfrühling. Dortmund: Arcanum, 2011. ISBN 978-3-939139-59-1

Audiobook

Weihnachten im Schneeland. Essen: Action Publishing, 2010.

Editorship

• Drachenstarker Feenzauber. Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2007. ISBN 3-938065-28-1
• Wovon träumt der Mond?. Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2008. ISBN 978-3-938065-37-2

Link

Her homepage: www.petrahartmann.de (German)