Author · Germany
Else Lasker-Schüler
Died in 1945
Else Lasker-Schüler was born in 1869 in Elberfeld, the daughter of a Jewish banker. Married in 1894 to the physician Berthold Lasker, she settled with him in Berlin and took drawing lessons there. Divorced in 1903, she married Georg Lewin the same year, for whom she invented the name Herwarth Walden and who founded the journal Der Sturm; they divorced in 1912. In her letters and drawings she adopted an assumed persona, Prince Jussuf of Thebes. Winner of the Kleist Prize in 1932, she fled to Zurich in 1933, travelled to Palestine in 1934 and in 1937, then in 1939, and could no longer leave. She died in Jerusalem in 1945.
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- PoetryHebrew BalladsHebräische BalladenElse Lasker-Schüler · 1913LiteraturePublic domain