Georges Hausemer

Georges Hausemer ( born 1 February 1957 in Differdange ) is a Luxembourgian writer and translator, who also used the pseudonym Theo Selmer.

Life

After attending high school in Echternach he studied until 1980, French and journalism in Salzburg and Mainz and has since been working as a freelance writer and publishing staff. He undertook numerous study trips to Africa, Latin America, Asia and southern Europe and was a member of the Writers' Union Cassandra Thing. His reports and essays appeared among others in the FAZ, NZZ, SZ and the Luxemburger Wort. In the 1980s, he translated numerous science fiction books for the Heyne into German.

He was a founding member in 1986 of the Luxembourg Union of Writers and forwarded it for several years. He published alongside literary texts, guides, reports and non-fiction books such as the over the controversial nursing scientist Erwin Böhm. In 2006 he was editor of the Luxembourg lexicon, the current reference work for Luxembourg culture.

Publications

Works of fiction (selection)

  • Situations. Poetry and Prose, 1975
  • The daily stuff and other dreams. 1976
  • Night in a glass house. Poetry and Prose, 1977
  • Warning of friends. New texts, 1979
  • Schill or Distances. 1982
  • The Book of Lies. Novel, 1985
  • The Institute. 1989
  • Small Luxembourg genre picture. Novel, 1989
  • The Spaniard in my room. Narratives, 1992
  • The laws of gravity. 1995
  • The dead from Arlon. 39 stories of 1997
  • Iwwer Waasser. Novel, 1998
  • 80 D. Roman, 2010
  • Con Dao. Narratives, 2011

Non-fiction books (selection)

  • Luxembourg culinary. Food, Land & People. With more than 100 recipes typical of Sylvie Bisdorff ( cookbook ) 1997
  • In the land of the Moors and olive trees. Andalusian forays, 2000
  • The Smiling Elephant in the rush hour. Thai sceneries, 2002
  • Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Guide, 2003
  • Erwin Böhm. Collected life lies. 2004
  • And in the evening a giraffe beer. Travel Stories, 2006
  • The Holy Rats of Deshnok. A journey to India, 2008
  • With the Grand Duke at the lunch table. 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 the mussel bay. 2010

As editor (selection)

  • Crimi reader. 1982
  • Luxembourg literary. 1983
  • Typefaces. New prose from Luxembourg, 1984;
  • Speaking of literature in Luxembourg. 2004;
  • Luxembourg lexicon. The Grand Duchy of A to Z

Translations ( selection)

  • Pierre Pelot: The Olympic war. 1983
  • Serge Brussolo: The Sleep of blood. 1985
  • Alain Dorémieux: symbiosis phase one. 1986
  • Emmanuel Carrère: The counter- runner. 1987 ( later than the mustache)
  • Jean -Claude Carrière Mahabharata. 1990
  • Emmanuel Bove: A bachelor. 1990
  • Alexandre Jardin: head over heels. 1992
  • Roger Manderscheid: shako clack. Images of a Luxembourg Childhood, 1997
  • Tonino Benacquista: The nightcap. 2000
  • Maxence Fermine: At the end of the Tea Road, narrative, 2012
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