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Else Lasker-Schüler was a German poet and playwright. She was one of the few women affiliated with the Expressionist movement. Lasker-Schüler, who was Jewish, fled Nazi Germany and lived out the rest of her life in Jerusalem.
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culture · German poet and playwright (1869–1945) · poet · writer · salonnière · playwright · artist · librettist · also Else Lasker-Schüler, Else Lasker-Schuler, e. lasker-schuler, else lasker-schueler, Else Lasker Schuler, Elisabeth Lasker-Schüler
Born 11 February 1869 · Died 22 January 1945 · Q58033
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Her final days in Jerusalem were commemorated in the BBC radio play My Blue Piano by the Scottish playwright Marty Ross (Radio 4 2007) which combined the facts of her dying days with the fantasies of her inner life
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An asteroid, (20074) Laskerschueler was named after her
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And was stolen, probably by metal thieves, in July 2007
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Died 1945-01-22.
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Lasker-Schüler's health deteriorated
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Was stripped of her German citizenship and the outbreak of World War II prevented any return to Europe
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And finally settled in Jerusalem in 1937
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Awarded Kleist Prize (1932).
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As a Jew she was physically harassed and threatened by the Nazis
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The death of her son sent her into a deep depression
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Established Lasker-Schüler as the leading female representative of German Expressionism
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And divorcing him in 1912, she found herself penniless and dependent on the financial support of her friends, in particular Karl Kraus
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And the first performance took place on 27 April 1919 at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin
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Published the prose collection Die Nächte der Tino von Bagdad, followed by the play Die Wupper in 1909, which was not performed until later
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After the death of Hille, one of her closest friends
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Else married the physician and chess master Berthold Lasker (the elder brother of Emanuel Lasker, a World Chess Champion) and moved with him to Berlin, where she trained as an artist
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Born 1869-02-11.
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