Lukas Hartmann facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Lukas Hartmann
|
|
|---|---|
Hartmann in 1985
|
|
| Born | Hans-Rudolf Lehmann 29 August 1944 Bern, Switzerland |
| Occupation | Novelist, author, children's writer |
| Genre | Novels and Children's literature |
| Notable awards | Lukas Hartmann#Awards |
| Years active | since 1976 |
| Spouse | Simonetta Sommaruga |
Lukas Hartmann (29 August 1944 born as Hans-Rudolf Lehmann) is a Swiss author.
Life and work
Born as Hans-Rudolf Lehmann in Bern, his mother was a farmer's daughter and his father was a 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 course in Bern with majors in German, history and music, and worked first as a teacher. He then decided to pursue further studies in psychology, but he did not graduate, and later worked as a social worker, journalist and writer. 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. In April 2018, Ein Bild von Lydia was published, a historical novel about Lydia Welti-Escher.
Since 1996 Hartmann has been married to the Swiss politician Simonetta Sommaruga. At the end of October 2022, he suffered a stroke, so his wife announced her resignation as Federal Councillor at the end of 2022.
Awards (excerpt)
- 1995: Schweizer Jugendbuchpreis for So eine lange Nase.
- 2010: Grosser Literaturpreis von Stadt und Kanton Bern
Literature
- Andreas Kotte, ed. (2005). Theaterlexikon der Schweiz (TLS) / Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse (DTS) / Dizionario Teatrale Svizzero / Lexicon da teater svizzer. 2. Zürich: Chronos. pp. 799–800. ISBN 978-3-0340-0715-3. LCCN 2007423414. OCLC 62309181. http://tls.theaterwissenschaft.ch/wiki/Lukas_Hartmann.
