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Gender and Performance

The Dissolution of Artistic and Gendered Boundaries

Else Lasker-Schüler’s artistic vision demanded the dissolution of artistic and gender boundaries. In defiance of bourgeois norms, she wished to see her prose and poetry performed in cabarets or at literary gatherings, while her correspondence became the setting for imagined others. These multiple selves transgressed gender norms and societal divisions, allowing life and art, stage and text, to intermingle.

Postcard to Friedrich Sally and Sina Grosshut

The postcard to Friedrich S. and Sina Grosshut reflects the social and literary network of the poet in British Mandate Palestine: the owners of the bookshop »Heatid« organised poetry readings in Jerusalem, and the Grosshuts did so in Haifa, where they ran a small antiquarian bookshop.

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Postcard to Friedrich Sally and Sina Grosshut

Postcard to Friedrich Sally und Sina Grosshut

(verso)

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Postcard to Friedrich Sally and Sina Grosshut

»To Ernest of Yesteryear«

In the poem Else Lasker-Schüler addresses the educational and cultural philosopher Ernst Akiba Simon (1899–1988) who emigrated from Berlin to Jerusalem in 1928 and became the inspiration for the Lasker-Schüler's love poems after 1935, although their relationship remained platonic.

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»To Ernest of Yesteryear«

»Dance in the Kibbutz«

The drawing reflects one of many scenes that Else Lasker-Schuler encountered in Palestine, and is at the same time evidence of her poetic engagement with the bodily and metaphorical associations of modernist dance.

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»Dance in the Kibbutz«

»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)

Letter to Paul Goldschneider

(p. 3)

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Letter to Paul Goldscheider (p. 3)

Letter to Ernst Akiva Simon

This letter reflects the historical situation of March 1943. Else Lasker-Schüler responds to reports about the Shoah in Nazi Germany.

Letter to Ernst Akiva Simon

Letter to Ernst Akiva Simon

(p. 2)

Letter to Ernst Akiva Simon

»Asser Mëmëd Schalomein Jussuf«

The drawing was completed around 1920 in the context of the poet's epistolary novel »Der Malik«, in which Else Lasker-Schüler writes herself and her surroundings into the story of Prince Jussuf.

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»Asser Mëmëd Schalomein Jussuf«

»The Malik«

The avant-garde novel »Der Malik« (1919) captures Lasker-Schüler's friendship with Franz Marc, to whom she dedicated the work. The »Imperial History with Images and Drawings« integrates the poet's environment into a story of prince Jussuf.

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The Malik (cover)

Postcard to Franz and Maria Marc

»Jussuf the wild Jew.« This postcard is part of the poet's artistic exchange with the painter Franz Marc. Lasker-Schüler's postscript refers to woodcuts by Gabriele Münter published in »Der Sturm«.

Postcard to Franz and Maria Marc

Postcard to Franz and Maria Marc

(verso)

Postcard to Franz and Maria Marc

Postcard to Friedrich Sally and Sina Grosshut

Else Lasker-Schüler
Jerusalem, 28.5.1943
Autograph
Pencil on Paper. Advertising postcard of Heatid, Salingre & Co. With a note (greetings) by Fritz Romann.
DLA, Else Lasker-Schüler Collection

Postcard to Friedrich Sally and Sina Grosshut

Else Lasker-Schüler
Jerusalem, 28.5.1943
Autograph
Pencil on Paper. Advertising postcard of Heatid, Salingre & Co. With a note (greetings) by Fritz Romann.
DLA, Else Lasker-Schüler Collection

»To Ernest of Yesteryear«

Else Lasker-Schüler
Jerusalem, 1942
Manuscript
Pencil on Paper.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

»Dance in the Kibbutz«

Else Lasker-Schüler
Jerusalem, 1942
Drawing
20,5 x 16,7 cm. Pencil and chalk on colored paper. Signed.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

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

Letter to Paul Goldscheider (p. 3)

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

Letter to Ernst Akiva Simon

Else Lasker-Schüler
Jerusalem, 11.3.1943
Autograph
Pencil on Paper. 2 pages.
NLI, Ernst Akiva Simon Archive

Letter to Ernst Akiva Simon

Else Lasker-Schüler
Jerusalem, 11.3.1943
Autograph
Pencil on Paper. 2 pages.
NLI, Ernst Akiva Simon Archive

»Asser Mëmëd Schalomein Jussuf«

Else Lasker-Schüler
1920
Drawing
15 x 10 cm. Pencil, ink, colored pencils and crayons on sketch pad paper.
DLA, Hans Feist Collection

The Malik (cover)

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin: Cassirer, 1919
Publication (book)
Pages with illustrations from book. With printed dedication to Franz Marc.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

The Malik (p. 60/61)

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin: Cassirer, 1919
Publication (book)
Pages with illustrations from book. With printed dedication to Franz Marc.
NLI, Else Lasker-Schüler Archive

Postcard to Franz and Maria Marc

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, [2.6.1913]
Autograph
Ink on cardboard, with drawing.
DLA, Else Lasker-Schüler Collection

Postcard to Franz and Maria Marc

Else Lasker-Schüler
Berlin, [2.6.1913]
Autograph
Ink on cardboard, with drawing.
DLA, Else Lasker-Schüler Collection
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