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