Thom Hartmann

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Thomas Carl "Thom" Hartmann (born May 7, 1951 in Lansing , Michigan ) is an American journalist , author and radio host .

Life

Thom Hartmann was born as Thomas Carl Hartmann in Lansing, Michigan in 1951 as one of four children. His ancestors came from Norway, Wales and England. He studied electrical engineering at Michigan State University . He is married to Louise Hartmann and has three children. He and one of his children have attention deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Hartmann is committed to the global German non-profit organization Salem International . In 1978 he and his wife founded the New England Salem Children's Village for abused children on Stinson Lake in Rumney, New Hampshire . In 1979 they together founded The Hunter School , a boarding school for ADHD children in Rumney.

In the 1970s and 1990s, he regularly taught concentration and meditation techniques as an NLP trainer . He has given numerous lectures on this subject both in the USA and in Europe.

Hartmann is the founder of several companies and works as a management consultant for marketing and advertising .

Journalist and author

Hartmann worked as a journalist for several years and received, among other things, the Jesse H. Neal Award for his reporting .

Hartmann has published numerous articles and books on political and contemporary topics as well as health issues. He is also the author of several novels.

In his books on ADHD , he hypothesized that ADHD is not a disease , but a genetic peculiarity that can be traced back to the hunters and gatherers of the Stone Age . Hartmann created the Hunter / Farmer theory as a metaphor and explained that ADHD not only has disadvantages but also various advantages and can therefore also be viewed as a gift.

The aim of his ADHD books is to help those affected and their relatives in everyday life and to offer them a new perspective on how to use the special features of ADHD. They thus received an alternative to the previously unconsciously preferred adaptation to the “farmer's world”.

In the book Ultimate Sacrifice (2006), Lamar Waldron and Thom Hartmann speculate whether John F. Kennedy was killed by the Mafia.

Radio presenter

Thom Hartmann (2004)

Hartmann is one of the leading presenters of the Progressive Talk Radio with liberal -oriented talk shows . The specialist magazine Talkers placed him among the ten most influential talk masters in the USA.

The Thom Hartmann Program started in 2009 and was broadcast on the Air America radio network until the end of 2012. Today, Westwood One's show will be distributed across the US and broadcast daily across the US on FM and AM stations. The Pacifica Network also broadcasts the program. At the same time, it is streamed on Youtube and Free Speech TV. Live is also broadcast on Sirius XM Satellite Radio . Regular guests on his show include a. the US Senator Bernie Sanders . Guests from across the political spectrum are invited.

Publications

A selection of Hartmann's books translated into German:

  • Another way of seeing the world . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1997, ISBN 3-7950-0735-6 .
  • See ADHD as an opportunity . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2004, ISBN 3-7950-0792-5 .
  • ADD: Making changes yourself . Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-7950-0762-3 .
  • Our burned out planet. Of the wisdom of the earth and the folly of modernity . Riemann Verlag March 2000, ISBN 3-570-50011-X .
  • The way of the prophet . Publisher Via Nova, Petersberg 2000, ISBN 3-928632-71-X .

Movies

  • 2007: 11th Hour - 5 to 12 - Documentary by and with Leonardo DiCaprio , USA, 91 minutes (Thom Hartmann as himself)
  • 2014: Pay 2 Play: Democracy's High Stakes - Documentary by and with John Wellington Ennis, USA, 87 minutes (Thom Hartmann as himself)

Web links

Commons : Thom Hartmann  - Collection of Images


Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thom Hartmann: Who's Who in America , 63rd Edition.
  2. ↑ a b Thom Hartmann: Biography . Thom Hartmann's website, accessed February 18, 2017.
  3. ↑ Kerstin Krupp: A US expert suspects that a talent from prehistoric times lives on in children who have problems with attention: little hunters in a world full of farmers . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 8, 1998, accessed on February 18, 2017.
  4. ↑ Why support SALEM? Website of the Salem International non-profit GmbH, accessed on February 19, 2017.
  5. ↑ Louise Hartmann: Please Help the Salem Children's Village If You Can ... Website by Thom Hartmann, December 29, 2009, accessed on February 18, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Ultimate Sacrifice. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Ultimate Sacrifice. Retrieved February 18, 2017 .
  8. ↑ 2016 Talkers Heavy Hundred 1–25. In: talkers.com. Retrieved February 18, 2017 (American English).
  9. ↑ a b Thom Hartmann - KXRO News Radio . In: KXRO News Radio . ( kxro.com [accessed February 18, 2017]).
  10. ↑ Thom Hartmann Program | 91.3 KBCS. Retrieved February 18, 2017 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Hartmann, Thom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hartmann, Thomas Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Lansing , Michigan