Lukas Hartmann

Lukas Hartmann (29 August 1944 born as Hans-Rudolf Lehmann) is a Swiss novelist and children's writer, which is well known in the German language countries. Married with the 2015 Swiss president Simonetta Sommaruga, he is Switzerland's "first husband" in 2015.

Life and work

Born as Hans-Rudolf Lehmann in Bern, his mother was a farmer's daughter and his father was shoemaker, later auxiliary postman and department manager at the Swiss Post. His mother had a creative streak, which passed to both sons. Hartmann's younger brother Jürg became a journalist, and now heads the Ringier Group school of journalism. Lukas Hartmann wrote his first stories at the age of 13. He completed a teacher training in Bern with majors in German, history and music, and worked first as a teacher. He then decided to further study in psychology, but he did not graduate, and later worked as social worker, journalist and writer.^[1] His novels Anna - annA and Pestalozzis Berg have been filmed.

Hartmann's grandmother was one of the so-called Verdingkinder, hence Hartmann is one of the most prominent supporters of the so-called Wiedergutmachungsinitiative.^[2]

Awards (excerpt)

• 1995: Schweizer Jugendbuchpreis for So eine lange Nase.
• 2010: Grosser Literaturpreis von Stadt und Kanton Bern

Bibliography (highlights)

Novels

• 1978: Pestalozzis Berg. Zytglogge, Gümligen, ISBN 978-3-257-24023-8.
• 1980: Gebrochenes Eis: Aufzeichnungen. Arche, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-492-00697-2.
• 1982: Mahabalipuram oder Als Schweizer in Indien. Ein Reisetagebuch. Arche, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-716-01764-7.
• 2003: Die Tochter des Jägers. Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, ISBN 3-312-00292-3.
• 2013: Abschied von Sansibar. Diogenes, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-257-06867-2.
• 2015: Auf beiden Seiten. Diogenes, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-257-06921-1.

Children's liteature

• 1984: Anna annA. Zytglogge, Gümligen, ISBN 978-3257011456.
• 1987: Joachim zeichnet sich weg. Ein Roman für Kinder. Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-499-20559-0.
• 1990: Die wilde Sophie. Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-423-62264-6.
• 1994: So eine lange Nase. Nagel & Kimche, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-257-01148-7.
• 2006: Heul nicht, kleiner Seehund! Kinderroman. Illustrations by Julia Friese. Bajazzo, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-907-58874-1.
• 2007: Spuren in der Polenta. Essgeschichten und Rezepte für Kinder. Illustrations by Larissa Bertonasco. Bajazzo, Zürich, ISBN 978-3-907-58884-0.

Plays

• 1976: Beruhigungsmittel.
• 1977: Familiefescht.

Radio

• 1976: Em Pfarrer sy Scheidig for Schweizer Radio DRS.
• 1984: Auf dem Scherbenberg for DRS.

Literature

• Andreas Kotte, ed. (2005). "Lukas Hartmann". Theaterlexikon der Schweiz (TLS) / Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse (DTS) / Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero / Lexicon da teater svizzer [Theater Dictionary of Switzerland] 2. Zürich: Chronos. pp. 799/800. ISBN 978-3-0340-0715-3. LCCN 2007423414. OCLC 62309181. 

External links

• Official website (German)
• Publications by and about Lukas Hartmann in the catalogue Helveticat of the Swiss National Library

• Literary estate of Lukas Hartmann in the archive database HelveticArchives of the Swiss National Library

• Literature by and about Lukas Hartmann in the German National Library catalogue
• Lukas Hartmann at the Internet Movie Database

References