Rudi Hartmann
Senior Instructor
Ph.D., Technical University of Munich, 1983
Office: NC 3107-B
Phone: 303.556.5296
E-mail: rudi.hartmann@cudenver.edu
Areas of Interest:
World Regional Geography, Europe, China, Colorado, Human Geography, Cultural Geography, Tourism Planning, Geographic Education
Teaching
- World Regional Geography
- Geography of Colorado
- Geography of Europe
- Geography of China
- Geography of Tourism
Current Research
Parks and recreational resources; sustainable tourism planning; tourism to Holocaust memorial sites and sites of atrocities; geographic education; teaching the geography of China
Produced Film
“Meeting the President – Washington at the Park”, an educational short film (16 minutes) produced in Denver, Colorado in June 2006.
Brief synopsis: The morning after his victory speech George Washington, Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, finds himself in a different reality: in a place named in his honor (Washington Park) in 2006. He is accompanied by a wise cracking dog Windsor. GW learns about a planned campaign event in the park where he could meet the first president of the U.S. Aftera wild ride in a convertible car, a meeting with the pushy event organizer and an encounter with a young girl who gives him a one-dollar-bill he realizes that he eventually became elected president.
For more information see: www.meetingthepresidentfilm.com
Select Publications
“Mountain Resort Planning and Development in an Era of Globalization”, New York: Cognizant Communication Corporation 2006, Editors: Thomas Clark, Alison Gill and Rudi Hartmann.
“Horror and Human Tragedy Revisited: The Management of Sites of Atrocities for Tourism”, New York: Cognizant Communication Corporation 2005, Editors: Gregory Ashworth and Rudi Hartmann.
Rudi Hartmann (ed.) The Friends of Dinosaur Ridge 1989-1999 - An Oral History, Morrison, CO 1999, 40 pp.
Klaus Meyer-Arendt and Rudi Hartmann (eds.) Casino Gambling in America: Origins, Patterns, and Impacts, Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corp. 1998, 270 pp.
Rudi Hartmann "Dealing with Dachau in Geographic Education", in Visions of Land and Community - Geography in Jewish Studies. Harold Brodsky (ed.), College Park: University of Maryland Press 1998, pp. 357-369.
Alison Gill and Rudi Hartmann (eds.) Mountain Research Development, Burnaby, B.C.: Centre for Tourism Policy and Research, Simon Fraser University 1992, 260 pp.
Photo Gallery
Hiking near Independence Pass, 12,000 ft. with wife Kathy
