Petra Hartmann

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Petra Hartmann (born 1970 in Hildesheim) is a German novelist, journalist and author.

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Life

Petra Hartmann grew up in Sillium, a little village near Hildesheim. She visited a humanistic secondary school in Hildesheim and studied German language and literature, philosophy and politics at the University of Hannover. Than she made her doctors degree with a thesis about the young German author Theodor Mundt. During her studying time she worked as a freelance journalist for several newspapers in Lower Saxony and Bremerhaven. After a two years traineeship she became an editor at a daily newspaper in Springe, where she was working for five years. Now she is a freelance author and journalist. [1]

Writing

Petra Hartmann is writing fantasy and fairytales. She won the bronze-medaille of the Storyolympiade three times (1999, 2000 and 2001). [2] In 2008 she won the German Phantastik Price. [3] She published three novels, which were playing in the fantasy-world Movenna. Her main publisher is Wurdack Publishing. For this publisher she was editor of two anthologies of fairytales, too. Furthermore, she wrote novellas for Arcanum Publishing. As a literature scientist her focus is on Young Germany (especially Theodor Mundt, Gustav Kühne and Charlotte Stieglitz). She published also essays about Uwe Johnson, about adaptions of the Faust- and Don Juan-theme, about thematic motifs of fantasy and journalistic writing

Selected works

Books

E-books

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Editorship

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References

  1. Biography from her book "Der Fels der schwarzen Götter". Nittendorf, 2010.
  2. List of winners of the "Storyolympiade": "Die Story-Olympiade » Gewinner 1999-2010". Archived from the original on 2012-04-12. Retrieved 2012-01-11.
  3. List of winners of the "Deutscher Phantastik-Preis" 2008: http://www.sülter.info/alle-gewinner/%5B%5D