Background
Born as Hans-Rudolf Lehmann in Bern, his mother was a farmer"s daughter and his father was shoemaker, later auxiliary postman and department manager at the Swiss Post. His mother had a creative streak, which passed to both sons.
Born as Hans-Rudolf Lehmann in Bern, his mother was a farmer"s daughter and his father was shoemaker, later auxiliary postman and department manager at the Swiss Post. His mother had a creative streak, which passed to both sons.
He completed a teacher training course in Bern with majors in German, history and music, and worked first as a teacher.
Married to the 2015 Swiss president Simonetta Sommaruga, he was Switzerland"s "first husband" in 2015. 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 then decided to pursue further studies in psychology, but he did not graduate, and later worked as social worker, journalist and writer
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.
1995: Schweizer Jugendbuchpreis for So eine lange Nase. 1976: Econometrica Pfarrer sy Scheidig for Schweizer DRS.