Editing Lars von Trier (section)

=== Family ===
[[File:Fritz Michael Hartmann.gif|thumb|180px|Fritz Michael Hartmann ({{c.|1950}})]]
In 1989, von Trier's mother confessed to him on her deathbed that his biological father was not the man who raised him, but her former employer, {{ill|Fritz Michael Hartmann|da}} (1909–2000),<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9kpAQAAIAAJ |title=Medien Wissenschaft |date=2004 |publisher=Niemeyer |page=112 |language=de |author1=Philipps-Universität Marburg |author2=Universität-Gesamthochschule-Siegen |access-date=11 October 2010 |archive-date=4 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130604003753/http://books.google.com/books?id=f9kpAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> who was descended from a long line of Danish classical musicians. Hartmann's grandfather was [[Emil Hartmann]], and his great-grandfather [[Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann|J. P. E. Hartmann]]. His uncles included [[Niels Gade]] and [[Johan Ernst Hartmann]], and [[Niels Viggo Bentzon]] was his cousin. She stated that she did this to give her son "artistic genes".<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qRpxLdn7C4EC&pg=PA124 |title=Visual authorship: creativity and intentionality in media |last2=Laursen |first2=Iben Thorving |publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press |year=2005 |isbn=978-87-635-0128-6 |page=124 |last1=Grodal |first1=Torben Kragh |access-date=11 October 2010 |archive-date=5 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130605005625/http://books.google.com/books?id=qRpxLdn7C4EC&pg=PA124 |url-status=live }}</ref> Von Trier has jokingly said, by reference to the distant German origin of the Hartmann family, that while he believed he had a Jewish background, he is "really more of a Nazi."<ref name="Nicodemus">{{cite news |url=http://www.signandsight.com/features/465.html |title=Lars von Trier, Katja Nicodemus: 'I am an American woman' (17/11/2005) – signandsight |last=Nicodemus |first=Katja |date=10 November 2005 |work=[[Die Zeit]] |access-date=14 October 2010 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120910/http://www.signandsight.com/features/465.html |archive-date=10 September 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the [[German occupation of Denmark]], Hartmann in fact joined a [[Danish resistance movement|resistance group]], actively counteracting any pro-German and pro-Nazi colleagues in his civil service department.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://modstand.natmus.dk/Person.aspx?43138 |title=Entry on Fritz Michael Hartmann in the Database of the Danish Resistance Movement |language=da |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120526/http://modstand.natmus.dk/Person.aspx?43138 |archive-date=26 May 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref> Another member of this resistance group was Hartmann's colleague [[Viggo Kampmann]], who would later become prime minister of Denmark.<ref>{{cite journal |year=2004 |title=Viggo Kampmann under besættelsen |url=http://130.225.142.181/fileadmin/saxo-abstract-uploads/viggo_kampmann_under_besaettelsen_2004_4.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810135641/http://130.225.142.181/fileadmin/saxo-abstract-uploads/viggo_kampmann_under_besaettelsen_2004_4.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=10 August 2011 |journal=Siden Saxo |language=da |issue=4 |page=39 |last1=Skov |first1=Jesper |access-date=21 May 2011}}</ref> After von{{nbsp}}Trier had four awkward meetings with his biological father, Hartmann refused further contact.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/22/1071941658741.html |title=Stranger and fiction |date=22 December 2003 |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120912/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/22/1071941658741.html |archive-date=12 September 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>

From 1987 to 1995, von Trier was married to producer and actress {{ill|Cæcilia Holbek|da|Cæcilia Holbek Trier}}, with whom he has two daughters, Agnes and Selma (both producers like their parents), and from 1997 to 2015 to Bente Frøge, with whom he has two sons.