What is Peter Härtling?
{{Infobox person |image = Peter Härtling 2013.JPG |birth_date = {{birth date|1933|11|13|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Chemnitz]], [[Germany]] |death_date = {{death date and age|2017|7|10|1933|11|13|df=y}} |death_place = [[Rüsselsheim am Main]], Germany |occupation = Writer, poet |signature = Signature of Peter Haertling.jpg }} '''Peter Härtling''' (13 November 1933 – 10 July 2017) was a German writer, [[poet]], publisher and journalist. He received the [[Bundesverdienstkreuz|Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany]] for his major contribution to [[German literature]].<ref name=Hartling>{{cite web|url=http://www.haertling.de|title=Lebensdaten von Peter Härtling|publisher=Peter Härtling|language=de|access-date=7 February 2010}}</ref> His first children's book, ''Und das ist die ganze Familie'', was published the following year. His children's literature has often focused on social problems involving children.<ref name=Perlentaucher>{{cite web|url=http://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/5396.html|title=Peter Härtling – Hoffmann oder Die vielfältige Liebe|publisher=[[Perlentaucher]]|language=de|access-date=7 February 2010}}</ref> ==More reading== * Burckhard Dücker, ''Peter Härtling'', München: Beck: Verlag Edition Text und Kritik, 1983, {{in lang|de}} * [[Maciej Ganczar]], ''Romantische Künstlerfiguren in der Prosa von Peter Härtling'', Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2015, {{in lang|de}} *Ludvík Václavek: Peter Härtling und Olmütz. In: Lucy Topoľská und Ludvík Václavek: ''Beiträge zur Deutschsprachigen Literatur in Tschechien.'' (= ''Beiträge zur mährischen deutschsprachigen Literatur.'' Band 3). Univerzita Palackého, Olomouc 2000, {{ISBN|80-244-0185-1}}, S. 211-214. ==Radio== Härtling moderated ''Literatur im Kreuzverhör'', a radio show on the cultural radio station of [[Hessischer Rundfunk]]. == Awards == Peter Härtling's awards include:<ref name=Hartling/> * 1964: Deutscher Kritikerpreis for ''Niembsch'' * 1965: [[Lower Saxony]] Literature Prize for ''Niembsch'' * 1966: Ehrengabe des Kulturkreises im Bundesverba