Lukas Hartmann

Lukas Hartmann (1985)

Lukas Hartmann , pseudonym for Hans-Rudolf Lehmann (born August 29, 1944 in Bern ), is a Swiss writer .

Life

Hartmann was born in Bern. His father was initially an auxiliary mailman, then did a commercial training and worked for the Swiss Post for many years , most recently as a department head. His brother, Jürg Lehmann, is a journalist and was formerly editor-in-chief of Blick and head of politics at the Blick Group. Hartmann attended the teachers' seminar in Bern with a focus on music , German studies and history . He initially worked as a teacher and was an editor at Radio DRS . He then studied psychology , but did not graduate.

Hartmann mainly writes novels - especially historical novels - and stories for adults as well as children's and youth literature . His children's book Anna annA in 1993 as Anna annA among others, the DEFA filmed.

He lives in Spiegel near Bern and is married to the politician and Federal Councilor Simonetta Sommaruga .

Awards (selection)

• 1993: Book Prize of the City of Bern for The Epidemic
• 1995: Swiss Youth Book Prize for Such a Long Nose
• 1996: Prize of the Swiss Schiller Foundation for Die Mohrin
• 2001: Honorary list of the Austrian Children's and Youth Book Prize for Leo Schmetterling
• 2010: Grand Prize for Literature from the City and Canton of Bern
• 2010: Golden laurel of the Sir Walter Scott Prize for To the End of the Seas

Works

For adults

• Pestalozzis Mountain . Novel. Zytglogge , Gümligen 1978; New version: Nagel & Kimche , Zurich 1988
• Broken ice . (Autobiographical) records. Arche , Zurich 1980
• Mahabalipuram or As a Swiss in India . A travel journal. Arche, Zurich 1982
• From within the medium . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1985
• One dies in Rome . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1989
• The plague . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1992
• The wolves are fed up . Narrative. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1993
• The Mohrin . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1995
• The convoy . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1997
• The woman in the fur. Life and death of Carmen Mory . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1999
• The hunter's daughter . Roman (about Vivienne von Wattenwyl ). Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2002
• The Germans in the village . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2005
• The last night of the old days . Novel. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2007
• To the end of the seas . Novel (about John Webber , the expedition painter on James Cook's South Seas voyage 1776–1780). Diogenes , Zurich 2009
• Dark happiness . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-257-06759-0
• Robber life . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-257-06806-1
• Farewell to Zanzibar . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-257-06867-2
• On both sides. Novel. Diogenes. Zurich 2015, ISBN 978-3-257-06921-1
• A suitable tenant . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2016, ISBN 978-3-257-06967-9
• A picture of Lydia . Novel. Diogenes, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-257-07012-5
• The singer . Roman (via Joseph Schmidt ). Diogenes, Zurich 2019, ISBN 978-3-257-07052-1

For children and teenagers

• Anna annA . Zytglogge, Gümligen 1984
• Joachim stands out . A novel for children. Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1987
• The wild Sophie . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1990
• Such a long nose . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1994
• Give me a kiss, Larissa Laruss . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1996
• The flying groma . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 1998
• Leo butterfly . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2000
• Timi Donner in the realm of the Centaurs . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2000
• GloriaFuria and the bad Marie . Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2003
• Love 160. The best messages about love and friendship (as editor). Nagel & Kimche, Zurich 2003
• Don't cry, little seal! Children's novel. Bajazzo, Zurich 2006
• Traces in the polenta . Food stories and recipes for children. Bajazzo, Zurich 2007
• All the things that have disappeared , a story by Lukas Hartmann, with pictures by Tatjana Hauptmann . Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2011 ISBN 978-3-257-01151-7
• My jinn , adventure novel. Diogenes Verlag, Zurich 2014 ISBN 978-3-257-01172-2

Theatrical performances

• Sedatives , UA: Solothurn 1976
• Familiefescht , WP : Solothurn 1977

Radio plays / radio broadcasts

• Em pastor sy Scheidig . Swiss Radio DRS , Bern 1976
• Dr Bsuech in the retirement home . DRS, Bern 1977
• Hot trip . DRS, Bern 1979
• Ecotopia . DRS, Bern 1981
• On the shard mountain . DRS, Bern 1986

TV scripts

• 1984: Motel (for 7 of 40 episodes) ( Swiss television )
• 1989: Pestalozzis Berg
• 1993: Anna annA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lukas Hartmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of the article freely available) with names of the people.
2. ↑ Swiss in the Waffen SS. In: Radio SRF . May 15, 1977. Retrieved January 10, 2018 . 
3. ^ "On both sides" by Lukas Hartmann. In: 52 best books , Radio SRF 2 Kultur . May 17, 2015 (book review).

literature

• Brigitte Marschall: Lukas Hartmann . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 799 f.

Web links

• Publications by and about Lukas Hartmann in the Helveticat catalog of the Swiss National Library
• Literature by and about Lukas Hartmann in the catalog of the German National Library
• Lukas Hartmann's website
• Entry in the Bibliomedia Foundation's authors' directory
• Entry about Lukas Hartmann in the lexicon of the Association of Authors of Switzerland
• Interview in reading marks (BR) video, approx. 7 min ( memento from March 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )