Avant-Garde
The Poet’s Lineage and her Vocation
Else Lasker-Schüler’s suspension of the boundaries between life and art, and between artistic mediums and genres, is seen in the poet’s attempts to resist the gender fixations and academic prescriptions of an outdated patriarchal system. As such they mirror her self-reflexive contemplation of the vocation of the poet and of an entire generation of avant-garde artists.
»The Nights of Tino from Baghdad«
The collection of prose fragments and poems is a reflection of Else Lasker-Schüler's search for a revolutionary female poetic voice within a patriarchal society.
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»The Nights of Tino from Baghdad«
(p. 7)
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»The Nights of Tino from Baghdad«
(p. 8)
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»The Nights of Tino from Baghdad«
(p. 53)
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Letter to Paul Goldschneider
The letter to the young Paul Goldschneider is part of a wider epistolary exchange between them, and evidence of the ways Else Lasker-Schüler intertwined text and object, biography and fantasy.
»To the Apostle«
The manuscript shows a version of the poem »In my Lap«/»In my Womb« (»My Love Song«) from the volume »My Blue Piano« (1943). The letter is addressed the educational and cultural philosopher Ernst Akiba Simon (1899–1988) who emigrated from Berlin to Jerusalem in 1928 and became the inspiration for the poet's love poems after 1935.
Notebook 1937
Despite its small size, Else Lasker-Schüler’s 1937 notebook from her exile period in Zurich is a testimony of the poet's life in Swiss exile from 1933 to 1939.
Notebook 1937
Drawings in Albert Ehrenstein's Notebook
The notebook of Albert Ehrenstein contains several drawings by Else Lasker-Schüler, created in 1916, during an encounter in Leipzig.
Drawings in Albert Ehrenstein's Notebook
Card to Franz Marc
This postcard is part of the poet's artistic exchange with the painter Franz Marc between 1912 and 1916.
Postcard to Franz Marc
»Vive la guerre!« This postcard is part of the poet's artistic exchange with the painter Franz Marc, written just before the sixth sequence of »Letters and Images« which appeared in the journal »Die Aktion«.
Postcard to Franz Marc
Musical Score to »Escape from the World«
Else Lasker-Schüler’s poem »Escape from the World« (1902) was set to music in 1910 by her second husband Herwarth Walden, chief editor of the art and literary periodical »Der Sturm«. The piece demonstrates the musicality of Lasker-Schüler’s poetry and is exemplary of contemporary Expressionist composition techniques.
