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Alexander Weicker
1893–1983
A Luxembourgish writer, journalist, and businessman, he is best remembered for the 1921 expressionist novel Fetzen, the only novel he published. His life moved from engineering and political studies in Munich to years in Paris and back to Luxembourg, giving his work an unusually wide horizon.
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Fetzen : Aus der abenteuerlichen Chronika eines Überflüssigen
by Alexander Weicker
About the author
Born in Holzem, Luxembourg, on October 16, 1893, Alexander Weicker was the son of a railway official. He studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University in Munich from 1915 to 1918, then political science at Ludwig Maximilian University from 1918 to 1922.
He published his best-known and only novel, Fetzen, in Munich in 1921. Reference works describe it as an expressionist novel, and they also note that he worked for a time in Paris as a taxi driver before returning to Luxembourg after 1936.
Alongside his literary work, Weicker is remembered as a journalist and businessman. He died in Luxembourg City on December 19, 1983, and remains a distinctive figure in Luxembourg literature of the early 20th century.