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Else Lasker- Schüler, born Germany, active in Germany and Palestine, 1869-1945.

Else Lasker-Schüler, daughter of Jeannette Kissing and Aaron Schüler, was born in Elberfeld (now Wolpert), Germany, in 1869. In 1894 she married Jonathan Berthold Lasker. In 1903 she divorced him and married Georg Levin, owner of a gallery and editor of an avant-garde journal. The couple separated in 1910 and divorced two years later. Beginning in 1902, she began to publish her highly acclaimed Expressionist poems and plays. In 1932 she won the Kleist Prize. In 1933 she emigrated to Zurich, Switzerland. In 1934 and 1937 she visited Palestine. In 1939 she came to Jerusalem for the third time. Due to the outbreak of the First World War, she was unable to return to Switzerland. In Jerusalem she founded the literary club "Kral" where she read her poems and organized lectures. In 1942 she wrote the play Me and Me. And in 1943 her last book of poetry, My Blue Piano, was published.

In addition to her literary work, Lasker- Schüler also engaged in figurative drawing and drawing in the Expressionist style. Many of her drawings accompany the plots of her literary works, which contain a biographical-fantastic dimension. Lasker- Schüler's legacy is preserved in the National Library.

Awards And Prizes

1932 Kleist Award for Literature, Germany