biography
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Lasker-Schüler, Else
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originally Elisabeth Lasker-Schüler
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pronunciation:
[lasker shüle
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| female
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| lived:
| (1869–1945)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Elberfeld, Wuppertal, W Germany. A member of a wealthy Jewish family, she led a bohemian life in Berlin among Expressionists such as Hille, Däubler, Marc, Trakl, Herwarth Walden (her second husband), and also Gottfried Benn, who most influenced her work. She left for Switzerland in 1933 and moved to Palestine in 1937, where she died in abject poverty. Regarded as a significant 20th-c writer, her novel Mein Herz (1912) is the definitive Expressionist novel, and her play Die Wupper was instrumental in founding the Expressionist theatre movement. |
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