Alf Simon Fougner Hartmann (September 25, 1915 – March 21, 2004) was a Norwegian journalist and screenwriter. Hartmann was from Hvalstad near

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, and he received his '' candidatus philologiæ'' degree in 1941. Aside from working for ''

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'' from 1950 to 1952 in London and ''

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'' from 1952 to 1956 in Paris, Hartmann worked for ''

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'' from 1945 onward, for which he wrote over ten thousand short articles signed ''Scorpio''. He wrote revue texts from 1930 onward, including for Arvid Nilssen, whom he himself discovered in a local revue in 1934. Later he wrote for

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, Lalla Carlsen, Per Aabel, and

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, artists at Chat Noir (1946–50, 1955–) and the Edderkoppen Theater. Hartmann wrote the script for ''I offisielle kretser'', performed at the New Theater in 1954.

Family

Alf Hartmann was the son of the schoolmaster Johannes Marius Hartmann (1869–1946) and Astrid Magnus (1884–1967). His brother Christian Hartmann (1910–1985) was a composer. In 1941, Hartmann married Berit Jensen (1919–2003).

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