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Alexander Weicker
1893–1983
A Luxembourg writer and journalist with a brief but memorable literary career, he is best known for the 1921 novel Fetzen, a striking work linked to the postwar Munich bohemian scene. His life took him from engineering studies to taxi driving in Paris before he eventually returned to Luxembourg.
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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 studied mechanical engineering and political science in Munich. After the First World War he became part of the Munich bohemian world, and in 1921 he published his only novel, Fetzen: Aus der abenteuerlichen Chronika eines Überflüssigen, which later came to be seen as a notable Luxembourg contribution to expressionist-era literature.
His path was anything but conventional. Biographical sources describe him not only as a writer and journalist, but also note that he worked for a time in Paris as a taxi driver before returning to Luxembourg after 1936. That mix of literary ambition and hard-lived experience helps explain why his work still feels unusual and vivid.
Weicker died in Luxembourg City on December 19, 1983. Even with a small body of published work, he remains an interesting figure in Luxembourg literature because of the singular reputation of Fetzen and the adventurous life that surrounded it.