Else Lasker-Schüler, German poet and playwright (born 1869)

Else Lasker-Schüler

German poet and playwright (1869–1945)

Else Lasker-Schüler was a German poet and playwright famous for her bohemian lifestyle in Berlin and her poetry. 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…