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Petra Hartmann
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<h2 id="life">Life</h2> <p>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 <a href="/facts/Hannover/yghHUDI4">Hannover</a>. Than she made her doctors degree with a thesis about the young German author <a href="/facts/Theodor_Mundt/ejNb5o74">Theodor Mundt</a>. During her studying time she worked as a freelance journalist for several newspapers in <a href="/facts/Lower_Saxony/fWt73Hu4">Lower Saxony</a> and <a href="/facts/Bremerhaven/oWEkkt3D">Bremerhaven</a>. After a two years traineeship she became an editor at a daily newspaper in <a href="/facts/Springe/u7tIp9n0">Springe</a>, where she was working for five years. Now she is a freelance author and journalist.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:1" href="#fn:1"><sup>1</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="writing">Writing</h2> <p>Petra Hartmann is writing <a href="/facts/Fantasy/gkujmhJg">fantasy</a> and <a href="/facts/Fairytales/ex3X7qku">fairytales</a>. She won the bronze-medaille of the Storyolympiade three times (1999, 2000 and 2001).<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a> In 2008 she won the German Phantastik Price.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> She published three novels, which were playing in the fantasy-world <i>Movenna</i>. Her main publisher is Wurdack Publishing. For this publisher she was editor of two anthologies of fairytales, too. Furthermore, she wrote <a href="/facts/Novella/cXo83RDp">novellas</a> 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 <a href="/facts/Uwe_Johnson/jcXqyPeN">Uwe Johnson</a>, about adaptions of the Faust- and Don Juan-theme, about thematic motifs of fantasy and journalistic writing </p> <h2 id="selected-works">Selected works</h2> <h3>Books</h3> <ul><li><i>Faust und Don Juan. Ein Verschmelzungsprozeß, dargestellt anhand der Autoren Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolaus Lenau, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Gustav Kühne und Theodor Mundt.</i> Stuttgart: ibidem Publishing, 1998. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-932602-29-3</li> <li><i>Von Zukunft trunken und keiner Gegenwart voll. Theodor Mundts literarische Entwicklung vom Buch der Bewegung zum historischen Roman</i>. Dissertation. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2003. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-89528-390-8</li> <li><i>Geschichten aus Movenna</i>. Nittendorf: Wurdack Publishing, 2004. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-938065-00-1</li> <li><i>Ein Prinz für Movenna</i>. Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2007. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-938065-24-9</li> <li><i>Zwischen Barrikade, Burgtheater und Beamtenpension. Die jungdeutschen Autoren nach 1835</i>. Stuttgart: ibidem, 2009. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-89821-958-5</li> <li><i>Darthula, Tochter der Nebel</i>. Dortmund: Arcanum-Fantasy-Publishing, 2010. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-939139-32-4</li> <li><i>Der Fels der schwarzen Götter</i>. Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2010. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-938065-64-8</li> <li><i>Die letzte Falkin</i>. Dortmund: Arcanum-Fantasy-Publishing, 2010. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-939139-62-1</li> <li><i>Die Schlagzeile</i>. Munic: PersonalNovel, 2011.</li> <li><i>Das Serum des Doctor Nikola</i>. Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2013. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-938065-92-1</li> <li><i>Nestis und die verschwundene Seepocke</i>. Hildesheim: Verlag Monika Fuchs, 2013. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3940078643</li> <li><i>Nestis und die Hafenpiraten.</i> Hildesheim: Verlag Monika Fuchs, 2014. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3940078841.</li> <li><i>Hut ab, Hödeken! Sagen aus dem Hildesheimer Land.</i> Verlag Monika Fuchs, Hildesheim 2015, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-940078-37-7.</li> <li><i>Freiheitsschwingen.</i> PersonalNovel, München 2015.</li> <li><i>Timur.</i> Saphir im Stahl, Bickenbach 2015, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-943948-54-7.</li> <li><i>Vom Feuervogel.</i> TES, Erfurt 2015.</li> <li><i>Berthold von Holle: Crane. Ein Ritter-Epos, nacherzählt von Petra Hartmann</i>. Verlag Monika Fuchs, Hildesheim 2016. ISBN 978-3-940078-48-3.</li> <li><i>Berthold von Holle: Demantin. Ein Ritter-Epos, nacherzählt von Petra Hartmann</i>. Verlag Monika Fuchs, Hildesheim 2016. ISBN 978-3-940078-34-6.</li> <li><i>Nestis und die verbotene Welle</i>. Verlag Monika Fuchs, Hildesheim, 2017. ISBN 978-3-947066-00-1</li> <li><i>Nestis und der Weihnachtssand</i>. Verlag Monika Fuchs, Hildesheim, 2017. ISBN 978-3-947066-12-4</li> <li><i>Falkenblut</i>. Hottenstein Verlag, Sibbesse, 2020. ISBN 978-3935928991</li> <li><i>Das Herz des Donnervogels</i>. Blitz-Verlag, 2023.</li></ul> <h3>E-books</h3> <ul><li><i>Falkenfrühling</i>. Dortmund: Arcanum, 2011. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-939139-59-1</li> <li><i>Die Schlagzeile</i>. Munic: PersonalNovel, 2012</li> <li><i>Falkenblut</i>. Saarbrücken: satzweiss.com - chichili agency, 2012. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-8450-0753-2, <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9783845007533</li> <li><i>Nestis und der Weihnachtssand. Ein Helgoland-Märchen</i>. Hildesheim: Verlag Monika Fuchs, 2013. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-940078-71-1</li> <li><i>Beim Vorderhuf meines Pferdes. Neue Geschichten aus Movenna.</i> Nittendorf: Wurdack-Verlag, 2014. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 9783955560812</li></ul> <h3>Audiobooks</h3> <ul><li><i>Weihnachten im Schneeland</i>. Essen: Action Publishing, 2010.</li> <li><i>Der Fels der schwarzen Götter</i>. Essen: Action-Publishing, 2012.</li> <li><i>Hut ab, Hödeken! Sagen aus dem Hildesheimer Land</i>. Verlag Monika Fuchs, Hildesheim 2016.</li></ul> <h3>Editorship</h3> <ul><li><i>Drachenstarker Feenzauber.</i> Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2007. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 3-938065-28-1</li> <li><i>Wovon träumt der Mond?</i>. Nittendorf: Wurdack, 2008. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-938065-37-2</li> <li><i>Drachen! Drachen! Fiese Essenzen aus dreiundzwanzig Genres</i>. Blitz Publishing, 2012. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-89840-339-9</li> <li><i>Mit Klinge und Feder.</i> Homburg/Saar: Ulrich Burger Publishing, 2013. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-94337-807-8</li> <li><i>Autorenträume. Ein Lesebuch.</i> Hildesheim: Monika Fuchs Publishing, 2013. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3940078537</li> <li><i>Blitzeis und Gänsebraten. Hildesheimer Weihnachtsgeschichten.</i> Hildesheim: Monika Fuchs, 2014. <a href="/facts/ISBN_(identifier)/15AdSPa9">ISBN</a> 978-3-940078-57-5</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.petrahartmann.de">Personal website</a> (German)</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Biography from her book "Der Fels der schwarzen Götter". Nittendorf, 2010. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>List of winners of the "Storyolympiade": "Die Story-Olympiade » Gewinner 1999-2010". Archived from the original on 2012-04-12. Retrieved 2012-01-11. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120412113808/http://www.story-olympiade.de/wettbewerb/gewinner-1999-2008/" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20120412113808/http://www.story-olympiade.de/wettbewerb/gewinner-1999-2008/</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>List of winners of the "Deutscher Phantastik-Preis" 2008: http://www.sülter.info/alle-gewinner/[permanent dead link] <a href="http://www.sülter.info/alle-gewinner/" target="_blank">http://www.sülter.info/alle-gewinner/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>