Georges Hausemer

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Georges Hausemer (2008)

Georges Hausemer (born February 1, 1957 in Differdange ; † August 13, 2018 ) was a Luxembourgish writer and translator who also used the pseudonym Theo Selmer .

Life

After attending grammar school in Echternach , he studied French and Romance studies (with a focus on Spanish) in Salzburg and Mainz until 1981 and then worked as a freelance writer, translator and travel journalist. Until 2008 he worked as a lecturer and editor for the Éditions Guy Binsfeld. He lived in Esch an der Alzette , and from 2013 in Luxembourg City .

He went on numerous study trips to Africa, Latin America, Asia and Southern Europe and was a member of the Cassandra Thing writers' association . His reports and essays have appeared in the FAZ , NZZ , SZ and Luxemburger Wort , among others . In the 1980s he translated numerous science fiction books into German for Heyne Verlag .

He was a founding member of the Luxembourg Writers' Union in 1986 and directed it for several years. In addition to fiction texts, he also published travel guides, reports and non-fiction books such as the one about the controversial nursing scientist Erwin Böhm . In 2006 he was editor of the Luxemburger Lexikons , the current reference work on the Luxembourg cultural scene.

Publications

Fiction works (selection)

  • Situations. Poetry and prose, 1975
  • Daily stuff and other dreams. 1976
  • Night in the glass house. Poetry and prose, 1977
  • Warning of friends. New texts, 1979
  • Schill or The Distances. 1982
  • The book of lies. Roman, 1985
  • The Institute. 1989
  • Small Luxembourgish manners. Roman, 1989
  • The Spaniard in my room. Stories, 1992
  • The laws of gravity. 1995
  • The dead from Arlon. 39 stories, 1997
  • Iwwer Waasser. Roman, 1998
  • 80 D. Roman, 2010
  • Con Dao. Stories, 2011
  • The soup fish . Roman, 2014

Non-fiction books (selection)

  • Luxembourg culinary. Kitchen, country & people. With more than 100 typical recipes by Sylvie Bisdorff (cookbook) 1997
  • In the land of the moors and olive trees. Andalusian Forays, 2000
  • The smiling elephant in rush hour. Thai sceneries, 2002
  • Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Travel Guide, 2003
  • Erwin Bohm . Collected life lies. 2004
  • And a giraffe beer in the evening. Travel Stories, 2006
  • The sacred rats of Deshnok. An Indian Journey, 2008
  • With the Grand Duke at lunch. Luxembourg border crossings, 2009
  • with Sylvie Bisdorff, Guy Hoffmann: Meng Kichen. Cookbook. Editions Guy Binsfeld. 2009. ISBN 978-2-87954-215-7
  • The cooking guys from Clam Bay. 2010

As editor (selection)

  • Crime Reader. 1982
  • Luxembourg literary. 1983
  • Typefaces. New prose from Luxembourg, 1984;
  • Speaking of literature in Luxembourg. 2004;
  • Luxembourg Lexicon. The Grand Duchy from A to Z
  • Everything you always wanted to know about Luxembourg but never dared to ask (and certainly not about Iceland) , 2012

Translations (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Luxembourg writer Georges Hausemer (61) is dead tageblatt.lu, accessed on August 14, 2018
  2. ↑ Georges Hausemer. In: Luxembourg Authors' Lexicon. Center national de littérature / Lëtzebuerger Literaturarchiv, accessed on August 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Hausemer, Georges
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Selmer, Theo (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourgish writer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Differdange
DATE OF DEATH 13th August 2018