Else Lasker-Schüler, poet and artist in Berlin

Else Lasker-Schüler (1869-1945) was a German poet and artist. She is one of the representatives of the avant-garde of modernism and Expressionism.
She was born in Elberfeld (Wuppertal), the youngest of six children of Jeanette and Aaron Schüler, a Jewish banker. They die when she is only 13 years old.
After dropping out of school to attend private lessons at her parents' home, she married in 1894 Dr. Jonathan Lasker, brother of world chess champion Emanuel Lasker. She moves to Berlin and works there as part of her art education.
Her son Paul was born in 1899; it is also the year of publication of his first poems. In 1903, Schüler divorced Berthold Lasker to marry the writer Georg Lewin, better known as Herwarth Walden.
Else Lasker-Schüler divorced again in 1910. She did not have an income, so she lived thanks to the financial support of her friends, especially Karl Kraus. In 1912, she met Gottfried Benn, which resulted in an intense friendship, which is manifested in his literary work by a large number of love poems dedicated to Benn. In 1927, the death of her son plunges Lasker-Schüler into a deep crisis.
Although the poet was rewarded in 1932 with the Kleist Prize, she emigrated on April 19, 1933, to Zurich. In 1938, having been deprived of her German citizenship, she became stateless. She traveled to Palestine and remained there until her death, following a heart attack.
Else Lasker-Schüler left an important poetic work, three plays, letters, many drawings. During her lifetime, her poems were published in Der Sturm and in Karl Kraus’ Die Fackel, and also in volumes illustrated and presented by herself.

By Else Lasker-Schüler, 1914

Katharina Cichosch ;

"There are many anec­dotes to relate about Else Lasker-Schueler, the famous German poet and artist, painter and self-proclaimed “Prince of Thebes”. This was a celebrity who was already able to read and write at the age of four, who gave all her lovers and compan­ions imag­ined names, who was a perma­nent fixture in the “Café des Westens” during her time in Berlin, and who liked to play the flute in harem pants as a protag­o­nist in her own Oriental cosmos."

1913

1912