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  • PoetryE' Schrek ob de' Lezeburger ParnassusAntoine Meyer · 1829not translated into EnglishA year before the Belgian revolution, no book has yet been printed in the speech of Luxembourg.Literature
  • TheatreD'Mumm Sěs oder De GêschtEdmond de la Fontaine (Dicks) · 1855not translated into EnglishTheatre in Luxembourgish had been born a few months earlier, with a first comedy by the same author.Literature
  • NovelMarc Bruno. Profil d'artisteFélix Thyes · 1855not translated into EnglishA poor student, between the love of an aristocrat and medicine, in the first Luxembourg novel in French.Literature
  • PoetryOur HomelandOns HeemechtMichel Lentz · 1859Twenty years after the Treaty of London fixed its borders, the Grand Duchy seeks to express its identity in its own language.LiteraturePublic domain
  • PoetryReenertRenert oder de Fuuß am Frack an a Ma'nsgrëßtMichel Rodange · 1872The grand duchy emerges from the crisis of 1867, in which it nearly came to be absorbed by a neighbour, and then from the Franco-German war.Literature
  • TheatreDie Söhne des ÖslingsNikolaus Welter · 1904not translated into EnglishAt the turn of the century, a Luxembourgish author writing in German brings the history of his country to the stage.Literature
  • NovelFenn KaßBatty Weber · 1913not translated into EnglishThe grand duchy is then divided between a Catholic camp, rooted in the countryside, and a liberal, bourgeois camp.Literature
  • NovelDr. Mabuse, Master of MysteryDr. Mabuse, der SpielerNorbert Jacques · 1920A prosecutor tracks down a criminal genius who hypnotises his victims, in the novel that inspired Fritz Lang.Literature
  • NarrativeDer VerräterNikolaus Hein · 1948not translated into EnglishThe Belgian revolution seen from a Luxembourg village, where one man refuses to follow the majority.Literature
  • CinemaWat huet e gesot ?Paul Scheuer · 1981No feature-length fiction film has yet been shot in the language of the country.Cinema
  • NovelHannert dem AtlantikGuy Rewenig · 1985not translated into EnglishA worker from the mining basin facing the narrow morality of small towns, in a satirical novel in Luxembourgish.Literature
  • NovelSchacko klakRoger Manderscheid · 1988not translated into EnglishThe novel written in Luxembourgish is only just beginning to exist, and the author has just left German for his mother tongue.Literature
  • CinemaTroublemakerAndy Bausch · 1988Luxembourg fiction cinema as yet has neither an industry nor public funding, and this film begins shooting without an assured budget.Cinema
  • Feature filmDe falschen HondMenn Bodson, Gast Rollinger and Marc Olinger · 1989A 1948 narrative on the birth of Luxembourg, brought to the screen for a national anniversary.Cinema
  • CinemaSchacko KlakPaul Kieffer and Fränk Hoffmann · 1990For the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of independence, the State holds a competition for the screenplay of a film on the country's identity.Cinema
  • Feature filmWedding Night – End of the SongHochzäitsnuechtPol Cruchten · 1991A wedding night turns into a desperate search, in the first Luxembourg film selected at Cannes.Cinema
  • PoetryLe Paradis brûleAnise Koltz · 1998not translated into EnglishShort, hard poems, on the edge of silence, by Luxembourg's great poet.Literature