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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mediums and genres, is seen in the poet’s attempts to resist the gender fixations and academic prescriptions of an outdated patriarchal system.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 (cover)

»The Nights of Tino from Baghdad«

 (p. 7)

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The Nights of Tino from Baghdad (p. 7)

»The Nights of Tino from Baghdad«

 (p. 8)

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The Nights of Tino from Baghdad (p. 8)

»The Nights of Tino from Baghdad«

 (p. 53)

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The Nights of Tino from Baghdad (p. 53)

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.

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Letter to Paul Goldscheider (p. 1)

Letter to Paul Goldschneider

 (p. 2)

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Letter to Paul Goldscheider (p. 2)

»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.

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»To the Apostle«

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.

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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.

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Drawings in Albert Ehrenstein's Notebook

Drawings in Albert Ehrenstein's Notebook

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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.

Card to Franz Marc

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

Postcard to Franz Marc

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.

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Musical Score to »Escape from the World«

The Nights of Tino from Baghdad (cover)

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, 1919
Publication (book)
2nd edition. Total 72 pages. With print dedication to Senna Hoy.
NLI, Library Collection

The Nights of Tino from Baghdad (p. 7)

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, 1919
Publication (book)
2nd edition. Total 72 pages. With print dedication to Senna Hoy.
NLI, Library Collection

The Nights of Tino from Baghdad (p. 8)

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, 1919
Publication (book)
2nd edition. Total 72 pages. With print dedication to Senna Hoy.
NLI, Library Collection

The Nights of Tino from Baghdad (p. 53)

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, 1919
Publication (book)
2nd edition. Total 72 pages. With print dedication to Senna Hoy.
NLI, Library Collection

Letter to Paul Goldscheider (p. 1)

Else Lasker-Schüler
30.11.1927
Autograph
With mounted green feather on first sheet, pictograms.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

Letter to Paul Goldscheider (p. 2)

Else Lasker-Schüler
30.11.1927
Autograph
With mounted green feather on first sheet, pictograms.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

»To the Apostle«

Else Lasker-Schüler
Jerusalem, 1942
Manuscript
Pencil and blue crayon on air mail letter paper.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

Notebook 1937

Else Lasker-Schüler
Zurich, 1937
Manuscript
4 x 6 cm. Chequered pages, black faux leather binding.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

Notebook 1937

Else Lasker-Schüler
Zurich, 1937
Manuscript
4 x 6 cm. Chequered pages, black faux leather binding.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

Drawings in Albert Ehrenstein's Notebook

Else Lasker-Schüler
Leipzig, 1916
Drawing
16 x 9,8 cm. Pencil on paper.
NLI, Albert Ehrenstein Archive

Drawings in Albert Ehrenstein's Notebook

Else Lasker-Schüler
Leipzig, 1916
Drawing
16 x 9,8 cm. Pencil on paper.
NLI, Albert Ehrenstein Archive

Card to Franz Marc

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, [February 1914]
Drawing
Ink on cardboard.
DLA, Else Lasker-Schüler Collection

Postcard to Franz Marc

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, [14.11.1913]
Autograph
13,4 x 8,2 cm. Ink on cardboard, with drawing.
DLA, Else Lasker-Schüler Collection

Postcard to Franz Marc

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, [14.11.1913]
Autograph
13,4 x 8,2 cm. Ink on cardboard, with drawing.
DLA, Else Lasker-Schüler Collection

Musical Score to »Escape from the World«

Else Lasker-Schüler
Der Sturm. Wochenschrift für Kultur und die Künste (no. 35), Berlin. Chief editor: Herwarth Walden, 27.10.1910
Publication (periodical)
Page 278 showing Herwarth Walden’s musical score to Else Lasker-Schüler’s poem »Escape from the World«.
DLA Library
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
Image: Courtesy of the NLI Jerusalem
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Image: Courtesy of the DLA Marbach
Image: Courtesy of the DLA Marbach
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