Lukas Hartmann

{{Infobox writer

| name = Lukas Hartmann

| image = Lukas_Hartmann.jpg

| caption = Hartmann in 1985

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1944|8|29|df=y}}

| birth_place = Bern, Switzerland

| death_date =

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| occupation = Novelist, author, children's writer

| birth_name = Hans-Rudolf Lehmann

| movement =

| genre = Novels and Children's literature

| yearsactive = since 1976

| awards = Lukas Hartmann#Awards

| notableworks =

| spouse = Simonetta Sommaruga

| website = {{URL|lukashartmann.ch}}

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.munzinger.de/search/go/document.jsp?id=00000022100|title=Lukas Hartmann|publisher=Eintrag "Hartmann, Lukas" in Munzinger Online/Personen - Internationales Biographisches Archiv, Munzinger-Archiv GmbH, Ravensburg|author=|language=German|date=2015|accessdate=2015-04-19}} 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.{{cite web|url=http://www.kinderheime-schweiz.ch/de/pdf/interview_lukas_hartmann_grossmutter_war_verdingkind_beobacher_zuerich_20maerz2015.pdf|title=Sie zeigten dem Vormund einfach das schönste Zimmer des Hofs|publisher=Beobachter|author=Otto Hostettler, Interview with Lukas Hartmann|language=German|date=2015-03-30|accessdate=2015-04-19}} In April 2018, Ein Bild von Lydia was published, a historical novel about Lydia Welti-Escher.{{cite web|url=https://www.exlibris.ch/de/aktionen-und-specials/schweizer-bestseller/schweizer-bestsellerautoren/lukas-hartmann/|title=Lukas Hartmann Bücher|publisher=Ex Libris (bookshop)|author=|language=German|date=|accessdate=2018-04-06}}

Since 1996 Hartmann has been married to the Swiss politician Simonetta Sommaruga.{{cite web|url=https://www.srf.ch/news/panorama/ehemann-von-sommaruga-schriftsteller-lukas-hartmann-feiert-seinen-75.|title=Schriftsteller Lukas Hartmann feiert seinen 75.|publisher=Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen|author=|language=German|date=2019-08-29|accessdate=2022-11-04}} At the end of October 2022, he suffered a stroke, so his wife announced her resignation as Federal Councillor at the end of 2022.{{Cite web |date=2022-11-02 |title=Überraschender Rücktritt - Bundesrätin Simonetta Sommaruga tritt zurück |url=https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/ueberraschender-ruecktritt-bundesraetin-simonetta-sommaruga-tritt-zurueck |access-date=2022-11-25 |website=Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) |language=de}}

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}}.
2016: Ein passender Mieter, Diogenes, Zürich, {{ISBN|978-3-257-06967-9}}
2018: Ein Bild von Lydia, Diogenes, Zürich, {{ISBN|978-3-257-07012-5}}
2021: Schattentanz: Die Wege des Louis Soutter, Diogenes, Zürich, {{ISBN|978-3-257-07109-2}}

= Children's literature =

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}}.