Literary career Else Lasker-Schüler

lasker-schüler memorial stephan huber in elberfeld, wuppertal

lasker-schüler left behind several volumes of poetry , 3 plays, many short stories, essays , letters. during lifetime, poems published in various magazines, among them journal der sturm edited second husband, , karl kraus fackel. published many anthologies of poetry, of illustrated herself. examples are:

styx (first published volume of poetry, 1902)
der siebente tag (second volume of poetry, 1905)
meine wunder (first edition, 1911)
gesammelte gedichte (1917)
mein blaues klavier (1943)

lasker-schüler wrote first , important play, die wupper, in 1908. published in 1909 , first performance took place on april 27, 1919 @ deutsche theater in berlin.

a large part of work composed of love poetry, there religious poems , prayers. transitions between 2 quite fluid. later work particularly rich in biblical , oriental motifs. lasker-schüler free regard external rules of poetic form, works thereby achieve greater inner concentration. not averse linguistic neologisms.

a example of poetic art ein alter tibetteppich ( old tibetan rug ), poem reprinted many times after first publication in sturm, first of these being in fackel.

another translation of tibetan carpet: