His first works, Das große Rasenstück (1981), a collection of poems, and Buntspecht im Hirn (1982), in prose, were followed by articles, short stories (Partances, 2003) and novels (Le silence inutile, 1991) in French.
He was vice-president of the Luxembourg section of Amnesty International, Luxembourg, representative in the International Service for Human Rights in Geneva, member of the Société des écrivains luxembourgeois de langue française (SELF), president of the Conseil national du livre.
In April 2015 his house in Eschweiler (Luxembourg) was destroyed by a huge blast, thousands of books and nearly all his manuscripts were annihilated.
graphiti, 2018, (ISBN 978-99959-37-58-4) (recension46) Les Parasols de Jaurès, proseries, (Le Murmure du monde / 8), avec toutes les pages du carnet manuscrit en fac-similé, éditions Guy Binsfeld, 2018, (ISBN 978-99959-42-47-2) Je n'irai plus jamais à Feodossia, 198 proseries, (Le Murmure du monde / 9, éditions Tinbad, 2019, (ISBN 979-10-96415-26-7) Mais le merle n'a aucun message, 99 neuvains, VIe série, avec 50 dessins de Lysiane Schlechter, éditions phi, 2020, (ISBN 978-2-919791-43-9) Wendelin et les autres, 16 nouvelles illustrées par Lysiane Schlechter, éditions L'Herbe qui tremble, 2022, (ISBN 978-2491462321) Danubiennement, 24 proseries, Le Murmure du monde / 10, éditions l'Arbre à paroles, 2022, (ISBN 9782874067266) Le Murmure du monde, vol.
10 Perles de pacotille sur le chapelet du silence, neuvains, éditions Apic, collection Poèmes du Monde, preface Jean Portante, Alger, 2023, (ISBN 9789931468974) Fragments du journal intime de Dieu, with illustrations by Patricia Lippert and Pascale Behrens, éditions L'Herbe qui tremble, 2023 Since 2001 Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, France English: Armenian : Italian : Bulgarian : Spanish and Bosnian in preparation A certain number of single poems translated (in anthologies and magazines) into Russian, Slovenian, Croatian, Bosnian, Spanish, German, Rumanian Media related to Lambert Schlechter at Wikimedia Commons