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Émile Schaus (12 February 1903 – 19 July 1994) was a Luxembourgian politician and writer.
After studying in Paris, Munich and Berlin, Schaus became a literature teacher, first in Diekirch, later at the Athénée in Luxembourg City. Due to his political views, during the German occupation he was deported by the Nazis to the concentrations camps of Wittlich, then
(23 February 1961)
1903 births 1994 deaths People from Préizerdaul Luxembourgian writers Luxembourgian politicians Alumni of the Athénée de Luxembourg Ministers for Agriculture of Luxembourg {{Luxembourg-politician-stub
Émile Schaus (12 February 1903 – 19 July 1994) was a Luxembourgian politician and writer.
After studying in Paris, Munich and Berlin, Schaus became a literature teacher, first in Diekirch, later at the Athénée in Luxembourg City. Due to his political views, during the German occupation he was deported by the Nazis to the concentrations camps of Wittlich, then Hinzert
Hinzert was a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate, from the border with Luxembourg.
Between 1939 and 1945, 13,600 political prisoners between the ages of 13 and 80 were imprisoned at Hinzert. Many were in tr ...
, then Dachau.
Schaus was released in 1942. In 1945 for a few months he was political editor of the ''Luxemburger Wort
''Luxemburger Wort'' is a German-language Luxembourgish daily newspaper. There is an English edition named the ''Luxembourg Times''.
History and profile
''Luxemburger Wort'' has been published since 1848. The paper was founded just three days a ...
'' and in the same year he was appointed head teacher of the Ecole Normale, which he remained until 1959.
Émile Schaus was one of the founders of the AFP and until 1951 was its general secretary.
The beginning of his political career was the communal elections in 1952. Schaus was elected to the commune council, and in became deputy mayor for the CSV. One year later he was Minister for Agriculture, Education, Population and Family in the government of Pierre Werner. From 1964 he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, the Luxembourgish representative in the Council of Europe, and finally a member of the European Parliament
The European Parliament (EP) is one of the legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it adopts ...
. In 1968 he retired from politics, and took advantage of this time to write.
He authored a variety of books: war memoirs, local history, children's literature such as ''Paul und Zorro'' or novels such as ''Marianne Bourkels''. He had also previously written some works before his retirement, such as ''Aus den Memoiren eines Douaniers'' in 1946.
Publications
* ''Auf der Galeere. Ein Kriegsroman'', which appeared relatively late in 1982, was Schaus' account of the German occupation. This autobiographicalroman à clef
''Roman à clef'' (, anglicised as ), French for ''novel with a key'', is a novel about real-life events that is overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship be ...
, tells of the life of Schaus' hero'' Tony Bourkels'', a "good Luxembourger," under the German occupation.
* ''Schne'g. Eine Katzengeschichte'', is a war novel, which portrays the everyday life of a Luxembourg City family in the early years of the war, entwined with the fairy-tale life of a cat.
* ''Aus den Memoiren eines Douaniers'' was Schaus' second novel.
External links
* Speech in the Chamber of Deputies on Luxembourgish agricultural polic(23 February 1961)
1903 births 1994 deaths People from Préizerdaul Luxembourgian writers Luxembourgian politicians Alumni of the Athénée de Luxembourg Ministers for Agriculture of Luxembourg {{Luxembourg-politician-stub