First official performance of the multilingual poetry project ‘Linguisticum’ in Le foyer Européen (Rue Heine) in the city of Luxembourg, as part of the festival Luxembourg Cultural capital of Europe 1995.

The cycle Linguisticum, written in 1980, marks for Albert Hagenaars both an end and a beginning. With these ten poems he chose definitively for literature and closed the door on an active period in the arts as painter and art gallery owner. ‘Linguisticum’ was first published in 1983 in ‘Op Komst’, an anthology of work by young Dutch authors, published by In de Knipscheer, Amsterdam. In 1986 the whole cycle was included in ‘’Intriges’, the third poetry collection of Albert Hagenaars, also published by In de Knipscheer. Shortly after the paperback edition appeared, a bibliophile edition of ‘Intriges’ was issued.  In that same year, a Belgian radio station devoted its literary program to ‘Linguisticum’.
In 1993, the poems appeared in I.E. Magazine -an American cultural magazine, in both Dutch and the English translation by Sandi Stromberg. In 1994 the book ‘Linguisticum’ was published, in four languages, followed in 1995 by the CD with the same name.

Composer/musician Jan Walraven performed ‘Linguisticum’ so far in The Netherlands, Luxembourg, The Czech Republic, Italy and Poland. Photos: Loes Walraven, 16 and 17 June 1995.