Alfred Hartmann (writer)

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Alfred Hartmann 1857

Karl Alfred Emanuel Hartmann (born January 1, 1814 in Thunstetten , Canton Bern , † December 10, 1897 in Solothurn ) was a Swiss writer.

Life

Alfred Hartmann was born at Thunstetten Castle in the Bernese Oberaargau , where his father Sigmund Emanuel Hartmann resided from 1780 to 1827 as a squire and bailiff. Sigmund Emanuel Hartmann was from 1795 to 1798 bailiff and 1803-1827 Bailiff of Aarwangen . Alfred Hartmann's mother Rosina Margaritha was born von Tscharner, widow of Franz Ludwig von Graffenried (1766-1810, Oberamtmann von Konolfingen). From his mother's first marriage, Alfred Hartmann had three half-siblings, including the architect and watercolorist Adolf von Graffenried . When Hartmann's father was forced to sell his estate, the family moved to Solothurn , where Alfred Hartmann joined the clergy in 1827 after two years in an educational institute in Gottstatt near Biel as the first Protestant student.

Hartmann studied law from 1831 in Munich , Heidelberg and Berlin , but lost his taste for this course during a long stay in Paris and devoted himself to literary pursuits, initially based on Heine's model, a work of Munich pictures that has been lost.

When he returned home, he took up his permanent residence in Solothurn in 1835 , where he came into close contact with the famous painter Martin Disteli , among others . Hartmann married the Solothurn patrician Kleopha Gugger in 1837 and only left the city for occasional trips. He turned to various literary magazine projects, of which the humorous-satirical supplement Der Postheiri survived for a long time. The Postheiri was also  so successful because of the illustrations by the illustrator Heinrich Jenny that it appeared as an independent magazine from 1847 to 1875.

Hartmann himself called the genre of village history in his autobiography the "right track" for him. However, he also became known for his historical novels such as the Helvetic novel Meister Putsch and his journeymen about the prehistory of the foundation of the Swiss federal state, which first worked on the Sonderbund War in literary terms (Solothurn 1858, 2 vols.). Biographical works such as Martin Disteli , 1861; Gallery of Famous Swiss , 1863–1871, 2 vol .; Chancellor Hory's Memoirs of 1876 ​​followed. Hartmann also tried his hand at the dramatic area with the play Ein Pamphlet a hundred years ago (1870).

Alfred Hartmann maintained - with Franz Krutter and other Solothurners from the circle of the Solothurn pottery society - a friendly contact with the Austrian-American writer Charles Sealsfield , who had moved to Solothurn in 1858. After Sealsfield's death, Hartmann published an obituary in the newspaper Die Gartenlaube . Shortly afterwards, the mystery of the identity of the "American" was surprisingly solved, and Hartmann oriented the literary world in a second article on the "enlightened literary secret".

Works

Memorial plaque in the hermitage of Sankt Verena
  • Kilt evening stories (Solothurn 1853–1855, 2 vols.)
  • Stories from Switzerland (Solothurn 1863)
  • Junker und Bürger , historical novel from the last days of the old Swiss Confederation (Solothurn 1865, 2 vols.)
  • Swiss novellas (Berlin 1877)
  • New Swiss Novellas (Berlin 1879)
  • Fortunat (Berlin 1879, 3 vol.)
  • The just brandy distiller , folk novel (Bern 1881)
  • On Swiss soil , short stories (Bern 1883–1884, 3 vols.)
  • Retrospectives. "I was and remained a pagan" . Solothurn Central Library, Solothurn 2011, ISBN 978-3-9523134-4-2 (autobiography).
  • Alfred Hartmann, Solothurn (=  Solothurn classic ). Knapp, Olten 2011, ISBN 978-3-905848-53-3 (Contains the story “Dursli, the emigrant”).
  • Master Putsch and his journeymen, a Helvetic novel in six books , new edition by Patricia Zihlmann-Märki and Christian von Zimmermann (eds.), Supported by Eveline Wermelinger. Chronos, Zurich 2017. ISBN 978-3-0340-1368-0

See also

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Gisi: Hartmann, Karl Alfred Emanuel. In: Biographisches Jahrbuch and Deutscher Nekrolog; Vol. 2, Berlin 1898.
  2. ^ Christoph Zürcher: Hartmann, Sigmund Emanuel. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ a b Verena Bider: Alfred Hartmann, a Solothurn writer from the old days , accessed on February 22, 2009.
  4. ↑ Hans Erhard Gerber: Hartmann, Alfred. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Karl Alfred Emanuel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1814
PLACE OF BIRTH Thunstetten , Canton of Bern
DATE OF DEATH December 10, 1897
Place of death Solothurn